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Donald Trump is entering the final stretch of his vice presidential selection process.
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He could have a new running mate as early as June.
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Trump has many factors to weigh in his decision.
Former President Donald Trump is entering the final stretch of his selection process for vice president.
There are now less than six months until election day. Republican delegates, including Trump’s family, will gather in Milwaukee in just over two months to formally hand him his third consecutive GOP presidential nomination.
Even if he wins in November, Trump will return to office as a lame duck. This means your mentee will be on track to replace you in 2028 – a fundamentally different reality to the one he faced in 2016.
Trump is no longer a political neophyte. As he recently told Time magazine, the former president claims he knows what to do differently this time. He no longer needs a running mate to unite his party’s base. It’s his show. But how recent primary results To illustrate, there is still a subsection of the Republican Party that is not enthusiastic about his choices.
A rematch between the last two title holders of the oldest president in history It will also certainly put focus on your numbers 2.
With that in mind, here are Business Insider’s initial vice presidential power rankings. Like all good predictions, we will update this as it gets closer to happening to ensure greater accuracy.
If we’re wrong, remember that off-season polls don’t matter. (Trust me, I’m a Nebraska fan.)
This is where things stand:
1. Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina:
Scott has been on Trump’s list since the beginning. He himself is a former presidential candidate, a fact shared by many recent vice presidential nominees (although Trump ignored this in 2016). The 58-year-old has also demonstrated a fundraising prowess that could be greatly appreciated given Trump’s sometimes cash-strapped campaign. It helps that he has a relationship with Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, who, according to CNBC, is pushing for Scott to be chosen.
Scott would also be a historic pick. He is already the first black Republican elected from the South since Reconstruction. Some Trump advisers urged the former president to balance his 2024 ticket by choosing a person of color.
Polls during Scott’s brief tenure show that GOP voters like him. He receives an equally warm reception on Capitol Hill, although his bipartisan push for comprehensive policing reform has failed. He voted to certify the 2020 election, a fact he shares with the overwhelming majority of Republican senators, but was recently cautious when asked whether he would accept the results in November of this year.
All that said, we talked about Scott before. And he dropped out before the Iowa caucuses.
2. Governor Doug Burgum of North Dakota
Burgum’s biggest moment in his brief presidential run was undoubtedly when he injured his leg before a primary debate. Despite that inauspicious timing and a forgettable primary effort, he is receiving serious consideration. Burgum’s momentum surprised even his fellow politicians in his home state. Senator Kevin Cramer told Politico that his governor deserved the spotlight, but also summarized Burgum’s biggest drawbacks, pointing out that he is a “white man from a state with three electoral votes that didn’t go to a Democrat, as LBJ doesn’t seem to bring a lot of electoral value to the ticket.”
Trump judged a Midwestern governor straight out of central casting, who was supposed to overshadow him. Unlike Pence, Burgum made his way in business before entering politics. The North Dakota native sold his software company to Microsoft for more than $1 billion in 2001. As CNBC pointed out, Burgum could write a huge check to the Trump campaign.
3. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida
Rubio would be the most obvious choice for a Trump pick primed to carry on the former president’s legacy in 2028. After all, the Floridian has already been proclaimed the future of the Republican Party. He voted to certify the 2020 election results but found other ways to work with his former rival in the 2016 primary while in office. Rubio has also shown he will change his mind, particularly since he was a key architect of the 2013 bipartisan, comprehensive immigration legislation that would have offered undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship. Like many 2016 foes, Rubio is also hammering Trump — including his mocking of the future president’s hand size (Rubio later apologized for this).
The biggest obstacle for Rubio is probably nothing from his past. Instead, he faces very real concerns about residing in the same state as Trump.
As a politifact explained, the Constitution was interpreted to not allow electors from the same state to vote for a president and vice president who also reside in that state. That means a Trump-Rubio ticket could lose Florida’s 30 electoral votes even if it wins the state.
According to Baluarte, Rubio would be willing to move, but he may have to decide soon.
4. Representative Elise Stefanik of New York
Stefanik has clearly established herself as a Trump ally. She was the first member of House leadership to support Trump in his 2024 bid. She won over his political base by defending the president during his first impeachment trial. Stefanik conquered national attention recently for grilling college presidents about their handling of anti-Semitism. She was once more liberal than Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, but her rise in the Republican Party has coincided with a reinvention as a Trump-aligned Republican.
Stefanik comes from a state that will never support Trump. But several studies show that the incentives granted to vice presidents by their home state are not all they are cracked up to be. Perhaps it’s not surprising that none of the top names on Trump’s list come from a current swing state. Still, Stefanik’s choice would be historic. She would be only the fourth woman to share the ticket of a major party. Republicans, especially Trump, have struggled with suburban women, but it’s unclear whether hiring a woman would automatically cure that problem.
Biden may also be satisfied with his choice of a Republican leader in the House. The president has repeatedly drawn attention to the drama that has gripped the lower house. Voters are likely to care more about the economy than House Speaker Mike Johnson’s job status, but the level of infighting in the Republican Party is so bad that several sitting lawmakers have left their jobs early.
5. Senator JD Vance of Ohio
Vance used his powerful position to push the Republican Party further in Trump’s direction. He serves in a chamber that, unlike the House, is more likely to challenge the former president. Despite joining the Senate last year, the 39-year-old has been repeatedly mentioned as a potential running mate.
As a former venture capitalist, Vance has ties to Silicon Valley’s most conservative leaders who could help boost Trump’s fundraising. Like many on this list, Vance has questioned the results of the 2020 election. He went even further recently to suggest that former Vice President Mike Pence exaggerated the extent to which his life was under threat during the Capitol riot.
The rest of the package
6. Representative Byron Donalds of Florida: Donalds has risen quickly in the eyes of many of his Republican colleagues in the House. He has close ties to the House conservatives who forced the historic impeachment of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy and frustrated Speaker Mike Johnson, but he has not participated in any of the efforts to challenge the men directly.
7. Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy: Ramaswamy marked the most pro-Trump territory of any Republican presidential candidate. So much so that it got him noticed. Ramaswamy shares Trump’s love for the economy with the media. He also tried to act like the former president on the debate stage, although his fellow candidates’ patience waned as time went on. Having never held elected office, the founder of Roivant Sciences would have one of the most unconventional resumes of any recent major party vice-presidential candidate. He would also be a historic pick.
8. Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii: Gabbard has reinvented herself since briefly running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. Gabbard made a big show of leaving your party about “awakening.”“Trump’s interest is so serious that she reportedly ignored RFK. Jr’s pleas to become his vice presidential candidate. Still, there are already a former democratt on any Trump ticket. Is there really room for another?
9. Former HUD Secretary Ben Carson: Trump still has close feelings for his former Cabinet official. Carson was also born in the important state of Michigan. He is also still an outspoken supporter of a national abortion ban, an issue that Trump has tried everything in his power to avoid.
10. A wild card like Governor Glenn Youngkin of Virginia: Youngkin dropped out of a late 2024 race to focus on state legislative elections. The Republican should show how the Republican Party can talk about abortion in competitive areas. Did not work. Still, he has the personal wealth and connections to seriously help the Trump campaign. Furthermore, according to CNBC, Rupert Murdoch likes him.
11. Anyone else.
12. South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem: Noah could have been a candidate. But when your top Google results are about dog killing, It’s safe to say his chances are pretty much over. Prediction markets seem to think so too.
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