According to a new report from NOTUS, retired media mogul Rupert Murdoch has made it clear who wants former President Donald Trump’s running mate to be behind closed doors, but it turns out that Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. , has someone else in mind.
The Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee will take position in a few days. The convention is expected to decide who will be the Republican nominee for president, but his choice for vice president is still up in the air. North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum and U. S. Senator J. D. Vance, from Ohio, are the top two contenders for the job.
Donald Trump Jr. is a big supporter of the Ohio senator. On Wednesday, he posted a clip of Vance at the national conservatism convention on Trump to describe his political calendar focused on national interests.
Axios reported Thursday that Donald Trump Jr. is expected to speak before his father announces his running mate on the RNC on Wednesday. The outlet called this “the latest sign” that Vance is ultimately Trump’s potential nominee.
Meanwhile, Murdoch, founder of News Corp. , which owns Fox News and other right-wing publications such as the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal, reportedly pushed for Trump to name Burgum as his vice presidential nominee.
An anonymous communications representative for Fox News told NOTUS, a political news site, in an article published Friday that Murdoch sent New York Post workers to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida to protect Burgum and denigrate Vance.
Meanwhile, an anonymous source close to Trump told the outlet that Murdoch is calling Trump to convince him to decide on Burgum as his vice presidential candidate. The source told a story similar to that of the Fox News employee, telling NOTUS that Murdoch sent News Corp executives to meet with Trump and urge him to decide on Burgum and not Vance.
Newsweek has reached out to the Trump campaign and News Corp email for comment. He also contacted Vance’s workplace by text message and Burgum’s workplace through an online form to comment.
Meanwhile, the New York Post publicly praised Burgum and criticized Vance.
In an op-ed published Thursday, titled “Doug Burgum is Trump’s choice as vice president to cement a historic legacy,” the publication’s editorial board praised the governor’s business experience, writing that Trump would have “someone who can dedicate himself to this grueling job. “”This is what it takes to change this country” if he chooses the governor as his vice presidential nominee.
The editorial continues: “Despite Vance’s few years as a venture capitalist and [Florida Sen. Marco] Rubio’s brief stint as a lawyer before a long (and successful) career in elected office, Burgum had a complete and spectacular career in business before taking on the local Republican political status quo to win the governorship of North Dakota.
Another article from the newspaper’s editorial board on Monday pleaded with Trump to “get rid of JD Vance,” writing that the Ohio senator “seems risky” and mentioning the time Vance called himself a “never Trump guy” in 2016. While it is true that Vance criticized Trump, he is now one of his biggest supporters.
Donald Trump Jr. vouched for Vance in a CNN article in June that said, “We are 100 percent confident that JD is essentially America First. Objectively speaking, no one in the Senate has been more supportive of my father than he is. “
Murdoch’s opinion probably wouldn’t carry as much weight with Trump as before. In 2017, the New York Times reported that Murdoch and Trump would speak regularly. Meanwhile, for years, Fox News promoted Trump’s political agenda. However, his courtship deteriorated the 2020 elections.
Trump was reportedly outraged in the 2020 election when Fox News called Arizona for Joe Biden with only 73% of the votes counted and 3 hours before The Associated Press called him. In the wake of Trump’s election loss to Biden in 2020, he spread accusations that the election was stolen from him through widespread voter fraud, there is no evidence to support those claims. Fox News helped spread the allegations, costing the network a whopping $787. 5 million in a defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems.
A longtime Trump adviser who spoke to NOTUS said Murdoch “wants to use the vice president’s election to control Trump and his second administration. “If Trump ends up reuniting Vance, “it will be a sign that Rupert Murdoch is no longer in control of the government. “Republican Party and that is now Trump’s party,” said the anonymous aide.
Rachel Dobkin is a Newsweek reporter in New York City. Her objective is to inform about politics. Rachel joined Newsweek in October 2023. She graduated from the State University of New York at Oneonta. She can contact Rachel by emailing r. dobkin@newsweek. com.
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