Rubio, Vance, Burgum: Favorite Emerge In VP Shortlist

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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🗓️ 22 June 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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With just weeks until the Republican National Convention, where the former president is expected to announce his pick for vice president, sources have told CNN that these are the possible contenders on Trump’s mind: North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Senator Marco Rubio, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, Senator Tim Scott, House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, Ben Carson, Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, Nikki Haley, Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, and Tulsi Gabbard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tonight John Adams could not have been more wrong about the job of Vice President
0:04.8	which he described as quote the most insignificant office that ever the
0:09.2	invention of man contrived or his imagination can see., disrespect to John Adams. It just never
0:15.0	occurred to him that America would have a president like Donald Trump. Trump, it
0:18.9	can be argued, sees the job of Vice President as very significant.
0:23.0	Good evening, I'm Jim Acosta and for Laura on this Friday night the last time
0:33.6	Donald Trump had a vice president it ended like this.
0:39.4	With a mob of Trump supporters storming the capital, demanding to hang Mike Pence, punishment for not going along
0:45.5	with Trump's plans to subvert the 2020 election.
0:48.9	As we all witnessed, Trump saw the job of Vice President
0:52.0	as an ace in the whole for maintaining the presidency,
0:55.4	no matter what the voters decided.
0:57.6	This time around Trump is likely applying a Pence-approved loyalty test before he picks a running mate, someone who won't let him
1:03.8	down no matter what. And it appears Trump has maybe started to narrow down the
1:08.4	short list. CNN is reporting that Senator Marco Rubio, Senator JD Vance
1:12.4	and North Dakota Governor Doug Bergam are considered the top
1:15.8	contenders at least for now and behind the scenes it turns out they each have a
1:19.9	network of influential voices bending Trump's ear trying to convince him to pick
1:24.3	their guy for Senator Rubio. He has Fox News host Sean Hannity and Kelly Ann Conway
1:28.9	in his corner, not bad. They argued he'd help Trump with Latino voters in key swing states.
1:34.0	Rubio even recently won a straw poll at a high dollar dinner last month that Trump attended.
1:39.0	J.D. Vance has some MAGA originals backing him.
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