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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Finalists for Donald Trump's Vice President

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

With only days to go before the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump still hasn't picked his newest apprentice. Three finalists are Doug Burgum, Marco Rubio, and J.D. Vance, though could there also be a wild card? Plus, Joe Biden holds a news conference to reassure Democrats that he's capable of serving four more years, but the calls keep coming for him to step aside. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal,

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this is Potomac Watch.

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Donald Trump faces a looming deadline to pick a running mate and a potential vice president.

0:29.0

What do we make of the three reported finalists?

0:32.0

Meantime, Joe Biden gives a news conference amid a NATO summit in Washington,

0:37.0

but will his performance calm any fears about whether he's up for a vigorous campaign

0:42.0

and another four years in the Oval Office.

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Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

0:48.4

We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassal and and Bill McGurn, the Republican National Convention is

0:56.2

set to gather next week in Milwaukee, and perhaps the biggest outstanding question still is

1:01.4

the identity of the person who will be standing

1:04.1

with Donald Trump at that convention and possibly in the White House for the next four

1:08.6

years. Let's start with a clip of Donald Trump this week discussing the three reported

1:14.0

finalists on the Brian Kilmead show on Fox radio.

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Word is that you won't pick J.D. Vance because of his facial hair.

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Is that true?

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No, I've never heard that was.

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Number two, Doug Bergham, the thing that hurts...

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He's a young Abraham Lincoln.

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