Former President Trump hinted at when he will nominate his 2024 vice presidential pick in the second part of his interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday.
The Republican front-runner’s campaign recently sent vetting documents to several potential picks, taking the vice presidential race a step closer.
Potential vice presidential candidates who have received documents include North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, according to sources who spoke to Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier. and Ohio Republican J.D. Vance.
Other potential contenders on Trump’s shortlist reportedly include Arkansas Republican Sens. Tom Cotton, R-S.C. Tim Scott, R-Fla. Rep. Byron Byron Donalds and Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson.
“I think I’m going to announce who that person is during the convention,” Trump said on “Hannity.” “I think that’s normal — it’s going to be an interesting time during the convention.”
Trump added that some of the potential vice presidential candidates “have done a great job of communicating the bad and the good and the good and the bad of what we are doing as a country and where we are as a country.”
“This is a very dangerous moment in America. We have a very corrupt political system that we have never seen before, we have to strengthen our elections, we have to strengthen our borders, we have to do something to work with our country or we’re not going to There is a country now, you know, we are talking about other countries and respecting them,” he continued. “Unless our president is respected, we face great, very serious danger.”
Insiders predict that Trump’s potential vice president will pose an “existential threat” to key areas of Biden’s support
The former president is expected to appear at a sentencing hearing in New York in mid-July, four days before the start of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Last week, in New York v. Trump, a Manhattan jury convicted Trump of 34 counts of falsifying business records.
The 45th president announced on Twitter during the 2016 campaign that he had chosen then-Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate.
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Pence declined to endorse his former running mate earlier this year, saying his decision “should come as no surprise.”
