The former president has been tight lipped about his potential running mate. But he’s opening up, finally.
And Trump finally spoke out about his VP and now all hell is breaking loose.
It may not feel like it, but we’re only five months away from the presidential election.
In just a few short weeks, Biden and Trump will go head to head in a debate.
With everything moving so quickly, the time to pick a running mate is running out for Donald Trump.
But he just dropped the biggest hint yet.
In the second half of a sit-down interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday, former President Trump hinted at when he might name his vice presidential nominee for 2024.
The GOP frontrunner’s campaign reportedly sent vetting paperwork to numerous potential vice presidential candidates.
Potential vice presidential candidates who have gotten paperwork include North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and JD Vance, R-Ohio, according to sources who talked with Fox News top political anchor Bret Baier.
Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Tim Scott, R-S.C., Reps. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., and Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., as well as retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, are all said to be on Trump’s shortlist.
“I think I’ll announce who that person’s going to be during the convention,” Trump stated on “Hannity.”
“I think that’s pretty normal — during the convention, it will be an interesting period of time.”
Trump also stated that certain possible vice presidential candidates had “done a fantastic job of communicating the ills and assets, the advantages and disadvantages of what we’re doing as a country and where we are as a country.”
“This is a very dangerous time in America. We have a very corrupt system of politics like we’ve never had before, and we have to strengthen our elections, and we have to strengthen our borders, and we’ve got to do something with our country, or we’re not going to have a country left and, you know, we’re talking about other countries and respect. They don’t respect our president right now,” he continued.
“And unless our president is respected, we are in great, really grave danger.”
The former president is scheduled to appear at a sentencing hearing in New York in mid-July, four days before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
A Manhattan jury convicted Trump last week of 34 charges of falsifying business documents in the case of NY v. Trump.
During the 2016 campaign, the 45th president revealed on Twitter that he has chosen then-Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate.
Pence declined to support his former running partner earlier this year, stating that his choice “should come as no surprise.”
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