Since former President Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination in November, speculation about who will serve as Trump’s running mate has abounded. He hasn’t revealed any information about his running mate.
Furthermore, no other contender has officially entered the race, despite the fact that Joe Biden is the sole announced Democratic candidate and only Nikki Haley has officially entered the Republican race.
Since November, other candidates have been mentioned as potential running mates for Trump, including Haley, Tim Scott of South Carolina, Ron DeSantis of Florida, and others.
Finally, the field is getting smaller as Trump starts to make his views known.
Trump recently discussed his prospective running mate as rumors about who he would pick for his 2024 ticket if he gets the GOP nomination grow.
According to Conservative Brief, Trump stated he was seeking a “respected,” “common sense” somebody to serve as his running mate a few weeks ago.
“You need to be intelligent, respected, and possess common sense and a conservative voice. Conservatives are not the topic; common sense is, according to Trump.
According to a recent Washington Post article, a trusted adviser or one of three basic candidate categories—women, conservatives of color, or other—will likely be selected by the 45th president as his running mate.
According to Tony Fabrizio, who served as Trump’s chief pollster in 2016 and 2020, “If you get over those two issues — loyalty and Trump going more with his gut — Trump has a lot of leeway in who he would pick.”
He isn’t very interested in balancing the ticket geographically, but he may choose to do so by choosing to balance gender, color, and ethnicity – there are many possible options there. Anything from Tim Scott in South Carolina to an Asian American in California or a Hispanic person in Texas could be involved. There are a lot of options and routes. And there is still plenty of time,” he added.
Recently, Trump narrowed the field even further by crossing one name off his list.
During an interview on Newsmax, Trump declared that it’s “very unlikely” that he would choose Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis to be his 2024 running mate, adding that he’s “not looking to attack Republicans.”
“No, I think that would be a very unlikely alliance,” the former president said. “I’ve never thought of it. We have a lot of great people in the Republican Party.”
While Trump did not name anyone that he was considering specifically in the interview, he did at least share some insight into the type of person he would be interested in.
He has previously stated that he thinks a female running mate would be a good idea. Others, however, have been speculating and gathering criteria on possible running mates for the former president.
According to a new report from the Washington Examiner, these four Republican women could be high on Trump’s shortlist:
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and former Arizona journalist Kari Lake.
The Washington Examiner reported:
Sanders, the youngest governor in the United States and the longest-tenured press secretary in the Trump White House, flew up political draft boards after she delivered what Trump supporters agree was an “exceptionally strong” response to Biden’s State of the Union on Feb. 7.
Noem was elected as South Dakota’s first female governor in 2018 after spending more than a decade in the House of Representatives and has made a name for herself as a leading Republican lawmaker in the so-called “culture wars.”
Stefanik, the current chairwoman of the House GOP conference, was elected as a centrist Republican in 2015 but, after serving on the president’s defense team during his first impeachment, has shifted increasingly to the right. She frequently touts her strong ties to Trump and even endorsed his 2024 run days before he announced his candidacy.
Lake is perhaps the strangest potential pick and one many current and former Trump advisers hope he avoids.
The former Phoenix-area news anchor lost her Trump-endorsed 2022 gubernatorial bid against Democrat Katie Hobbs, but she only further endeared herself to the former president by repeatedly claiming that widespread fraud occurred in the 2020 election.
One name not mentioned in the Washington Examiner report is Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia.
Her name has been floated in the media recently, Conservative Brief noted.
NBC’s Jonathan Allen reported that several people have spoken to Greene and have been told “about her weighty ambitions,” Mediaite noted. “This is no shrinking violet, she’s ambitious — she’s not shy about that, nor should she be,” said Steve Bannon, host of the podcast “War Room” and an early leading political adviser to Trump.
“She sees herself on the shortlist for Trump’s VP. Paraphrasing Cokie Roberts, when MTG looks in the mirror she sees a potential president smiling back,” he added, a reference to the late political reporter who worked for NPR, ABC News, and other outlets.
Rephrased from: The Republic Brief By: Trump Knows
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