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Trump is expected to announce the name of the vice presidential candidate today: Names being rumored

2024-07-15 20:23:35Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA ASSOCIATED PRESS
Trump is expected to announce the name of the vice presidential candidate today:
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Former President Donald Trump, who survived an assassination attempt two days ago, heads to the Republican National Convention without yet selecting a running mate — but he said he would do so on Monday.

It remains unclear whether the gun attack during the rally in Pennsylvania has changed the former president's opinion about the person who will run alongside him as a candidate for vice president. During a telephone conversation, he told Fox News reporter Bret Baier that he planned to make his selection on Monday.

After the shooting, Trump's election carries significantly more weight.

Trump has repeatedly said he would focus on selecting someone who was qualified to take over as commander-in-chief.

"It's imperative to cast someone who can be good for any occasion, for any terrible occasion," he said in May during an interview on "The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show."

In another interview with Fox News reporter Harris Faulkner that was recorded a few hours before his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Trump was asked where he was in the process of selecting a vice presidential candidate and whether his decision-making would change if President Joe Biden withdrew from the race.

"It's a very important position especially if something bad happens," Trump said. "That's the most important thing, if something bad could happen."

The people on Mr. Trump's shortlist have varying levels of governing experience. Ohio Sen. JD Vance, for example, has been in office less than two years, while North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum leads a state with a population of 780,000, smaller than Columbus, Ohio's 908,000. Florida Senator Marco Rubio has been in politics for decades and is in his third term in the Senate.

Before the gun attack, Trump had made it clear that he wanted to announce the name in a dramatic way in the assembly, which he said would make the process more "interesting" and "more exciting".

"It's like a very sophisticated version of 'The Apprentice,'" he said in a radio interview last week, referring to a TV show he once hosted where Mr. Trump selected from among candidates who would work for the company his.

Trump and convention organizers have said his agenda will not change, but will continue as planned despite the attack. In a post on his social media page, Trump wrote that he cannot allow "a person with a gun or a would-be assassin to impose a schedule change, or anything else."

"At this moment it is more important than ever that we stand together and show our true character as Americans by remaining strong and determined and not allowing evil to win," he wrote.

Trump held meetings in the days before the attack with the main contenders to take the position of presidential candidate. All have submitted materials, including biographies and photographs, to assembly organizers, according to multiple people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The former president's private meetings with Mr. Vance, Rubio and Burgum were first reported by ABC News.

One of the people in their knowledge said that during the meetings no promises were made or nothing was offered.

Trump's wait until the convention to choose his number two comes later than usual in recent years, but it is hardly unprecedented.

In 1980, Ronald Reagan negotiated with former President Gerald Ford for hours during the Republican convention in Detroit, but decided on his former primary rival George HW Bush to be his number two when negotiations broke down. The decision came less than 24 hours before he officially accepted the party's nomination in the presidential race.

Bush himself waited until the 1988 Republican convention held in New Orleans before he 'shocked' many of the attendees - as well as some of his top advisers - by choosing little-known Indiana Senator Dan Quayle as his No. 2 his, instead of a better known and more widely accepted candidate.

Since then, however, it has been tradition to choose a candidate shortly before the opening of the party convention.

In 2008, Arizona Senator John McCain, in an effort to boost his race against Democrat Barack Obama, tapped little-known Alaska Governor Sarah Palin just before the Minnesota Republican convention opened. He had a surge in the polls, but that didn't last long.

Joe Biden nominated then-California senator Kamala Harris as his vice-presidential candidate six days before the Democratic Party opened its convention, which was held mostly online due to the coronavirus pandemic.


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