Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that he knows who his running mate will be and reiterated his goal of announcing his choice next month at the Republican National Convention.
Sen. J. D. Vance, Ohio: The Ohio senator is among four vice presidential frontrunners who won official campaign applications this month, along with Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and Sen. Tim Scott, South Carolina. , several have been reported.
Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida: Rubio has denied any discussion with the Trump campaign about joining his group, telling ABC earlier this month, “I haven’t talked to you about the vice president,” though he also told NBC last month, “I haven’t told you about the vice president. “I’m going to do what the crusade asks of me.
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum: A successful former tech executive (Forbes estimates his value at around $100 million), Burgum is among the vice presidential contenders who made the pilgrimage to Trump at his secret trial in Manhattan earlier this month, and served as Trump’s representative. Liaison with oil executives.
Sen. Tim Scott, South Carolina: While most of the applicants on Trump’s list have been coy about their interest in the job, Scott told a Newsmax reporter in May, a day after participating in a fundraiser in Manhattan with Trump, “if you’re the guy who moderates [the vice presidential debate], maybe I’ll get back to you,” adding “let’s see, let’s see,” when asked if he would be on Trump’s ticket.
Ben Carson: The crusade also requested data from the former neurosurgeon who served as Trump’s secretary of housing and urban development, ABC reported, noting that the scale of the request is unclear and mentioning resources that say the list is evolving, but in the past 4 lawmakers have discussed it and lately they dominate it.
Elise Stefanik, New York: The Republican Conference chair is one of Trump’s top unwavering aides in Congress: She was the first GOP leader in Congress to support his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election, consistently promotes his claims of voter fraud and criticizes his legal messes in television interviews. (Reportedly, the crusade also asked him for information. )
Rep. Byron Donalds, Florida: Donalds also attended Trump’s trial earlier this month and reportedly won a request for verification information, however, Trump reported last month that he would choose Donalds for some other role — that of governor of Florida, NBC reported, citing an anonymous source.
Sen. Tom Cotton, Arkansas: Cotton has emerged as a backward vice presidential candidate, the New York Times reported last month, citing sources who said Cotton’s low profile and more than a decade of experience in Congress and Senate are attributes for Trump, though Cotton declined to comment on that prospect. told ABC in early May that “anyone who campaigns for the task or pushes for the task is not helpful to what we all deserve to focus on, which is winning elections. “
Trump told Fox News on Thursday that he has “a pretty smart idea” of who his running mate will be, and reiterated his goal of “probably” announcing his selection at the NCR, which begins July 15 in Milwaukee. He attended his caucuses with House and Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill on Thursday, answering “probably,” which would well exclude Carson and Burgum. Trump, usually elusive about his uniform idea process, also told Fox that he “might consider” the Virginia governor. Glenn Youngkin, whose meeting with Trump earlier this week sparked speculation, though that was the campaign strategy in the state, as political analysts have generally called it. The Blue State is a battleground this year.
Trump has continually warned that he will announce his vice presidential election at the Republican National Convention, July 15-18 in Milwaukee, telling Milwaukee television station TMJ4 that there is a “very good chance” he will announce it at the conference. He is expected to be the first candidate since former President George H. W. Bush will announce his election as vice president at the conference, according to the American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Bush announced former Vice President Dan Quayle on the penultimate day of the Republican National Convention in August 1988. Trump announced former Vice President Mike Pence as his running mate 3 days before the 2016 conference.
Several early contenders have reportedly been eliminated from the potential shortlist. Arizona Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake is no longer in the race, the Washington Post reported, citing five anonymous resources who said Trump had tried to distance himself from her, fearing he would lose her race. race for the Arizona Senate and be related to it. loss. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, whom Trump has in the past called a “strong” potential choice, is widely credited with ruining her chances of becoming vice president after admitting in her new book that she took down the “untrainables” and “dangerous. ” members of the family circle. month-old puppy and then pointed the gun at one of his “bad and unpleasant” goats. Trump denied a report in May that his former rival, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (who has not endorsed Trump since dropping out of the race but recently said she would vote for him) would run, instead telling her to News on Thursday the 12th that he would. chances are he will be “part of our team in some capacity” if he is re-elected. Trump also ruled out his former GOP No. 1 rival, biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and is instead contemplating nominating him for a Cabinet post, Bloomberg reported in March, citing resources. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speculated that he was running for vice president when he met with Trump in Miami in April, the Washington Post reported, but the meeting was reportedly about recruiting DeSantis’ donor network to help to Trump and bury the hatchet after his debatable number. one. battle.
The Twelfth Amendment prohibits a state’s electorate from voting for a presidential and vice presidential candidate who are from the same state, which can also exclude DeSantis and Rubio. Trump replaced his official apartment from New York to Florida in 2019. But there are conceivable solutions. Trump may not want Florida’s 30 electors to surpass the 270-vote threshold needed to officially win the presidency if he wins by a wide enough margin — an unlikely scenario, according to polls. Rubio or DeSantis may also replace their apartment with some other state, as former Vice President Dick Cheney did days before former President George W. Bush will not nominate him as his vice-presidential nominee. Cheney was living in Texas at the time and moved to Wyoming. However, replacement may also be more complicated for Rubio or DeSantis, as they hold elected office in the state, Ken Wagner, a political science professor at Florida Atlantic University, told the Miami Herald.
A number of applicants have apparent disadvantages. Rubio and DeSantis would attract the same voter base in their home state as Trump, since they are all from Florida, something Rubio discussed when asked by Fox News in January about the possibility of joining Trump’s ticket. Stefanik represents a decidedly blue state that Trump cannot, in fact, win. And Scott broke with Trump’s Republican allies in Congress and voted to certify the effects of the 2020 presidential election. Trump has a thorny history with Pence, who dropped out of the Republican presidential race in October. Pence publicly criticized Trump for urging him not to certify the effects of the 2020 presidential election, which he refused to do, saying Trump had asked him to “choose between himself and the Constitution. “Trump responded that Pence was “delusional. “
Trump and President Joe Biden clinched their respective party nominations on March 12, making the number one season of 2024 one of the shortest in decades. The Republican National Committee is expected to formalize Trump’s nomination at its conference, and the Democratic National Committee will hold its conference. in Chicago in August. Trump has not made any public indications about who he would pick as vice president, but he needs someone with experience and a measured attitude, the New York Times reported, citing sources who said Trump was secretive about who might look inside closed doors. Triumph. “
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