© Associate PressFormer President Donald Trump pointing to the audience during a town hall in Greenville, SC on Feb. 20, 2024. 7
Former President Donald Trump gestures to the audience during his town hall in Greenville, SC, on Feb. 20, 2024.
Former President Donald Trump gestures to the audience during his town hall in Greenville, SC, on Feb. 20, 2024.
The GOP presidential front-runner confirmed his shortlist after Fox News host Laura Ingraham rattled off a list of names at a town hall event in Greenville, SC, which she said audience members deemed good choices for him to tap for the vice presidency.
The names included Gabbard, DeSantis, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem.
"Are they all on your shortlist?" Ingraham asked Trump.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is one of several candidates on Trump's vice presidential shortlist. Getty Images
To which he responded, "They are."
"They're all solid," Trump said moments later. "And I always say I want people with common sense because there's so many things happening in this country that don't make sense."
© Alex Hicks Jr./Staff / USA TODAY NetworkUS Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) joins former President Donald Trump at Tuesday, March 20, 2024 town hall in Greenville, SC.
He added that voters primarily care about who's on the top of the ticket rather than who the running mate is.
"The one thing that always surprises me is that the VP choice has absolutely no impact," Trump said. "It's whoever the president is, it just seems."
© Associated PressSouth Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem attends a tribal flags ceremony on Jan. 10, 2024, at the state Capitol in Pierre, S.D. South Dakota. 7
As for the former president's last remaining GOP primary opponent — former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley — Trump said he "settled it about three months ago" that she wouldn't be on his 2024 general election ticket.
In January, Trump teased that he's already decided on a running mate if he were to win the Republican nomination for president but refused to say who it is when asked during a town hall in Des Moines, Iowa.
"Well, I can't tell you that, really," Trump told Fox News hosts Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, the event moderators, at the time.
© Getty ImagesEntrepreneur and former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy attends Trump’s primary night party in Nashua, New Hampshire, on Jan. 23, 2024.
"I mean, I know who it's going to be," he added.
Similarly, Trump didn't provide a time frame Tuesday for when he would name his running mate.
Reader Comments
Yes Spur, Gabbard has no fear. She's nobody's fool and tells the truth. Imagine that.
I hope he chooses her.
Yes who ordered the American military to murder the peace envoy General Solimani Iranian peace envoy along with the Iraqi representative who were meeting Saudi ministers and peace envoys from two or three other nations?
why are European and American banks and financial organisations oligarchs and multinational American companies so sure there fears will be plicated regardless who get in? They dictate and owned senators elected, there foreign policy
I do agree with you that international trade and finance run so far above politicians that it is silly to even consider it.
The new guy replaces the old guy and is told the last guy stopped reading at the third paragraph of section 3, let's pick it up from there.
They have no influence at sll.
Awesome. Just perfect. LOL