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The Sunday Story: Let The Veepstakes Begin

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🗓️ 28 January 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Primary season has just begun but for most Republicans, it's a wrap. The question now is not who the party will pick as its presidential candidate but who former President Donald Trump will choose as his running mate. Today on The Sunday Story, we turn to our colleagues at NPR's Politics Podcast as they consider the vice presidency and who might be on Trump's short list.

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0:00.0

So it's only January. We've still got a lot of time before Americans go to the polls in November

0:06.6

to decide who will be our next president. But after just two primaries, Republicans seem to have made their choice, former President

0:14.9

Donald Trump. And that's because he's winning pretty decisively and there just

0:20.6

doesn't seem to be a path for any other candidate, i.e.

0:25.0

Nicky Haley, who's only one left in the race.

0:28.0

And, you know, anything can happen.

0:31.0

I always have to say that.

0:32.0

But it looks like former President Donald Trump

0:35.3

will most likely get the GOP nomination. Now attention is turning to the next big

0:41.4

mystery of this campaign season and that's who Trump

0:45.1

is going to pick to be his vice president. I'm Aisha Roscoe and this is the

0:50.3

Sunday story.

0:52.6

Today we're turning to our colleagues on NPR's Politics Podcast for a little insight.

0:58.0

Here we go.

1:01.0

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Susan Davis. I cover politics. I'm Sarah

1:05.3

McCammon. I cover the presidential campaign. And I'm Mara Liason, national

1:09.4

political correspondent. And today I'd like to think of the podcast as the equivalent of if you were sitting around and getting a beer with me, Mara, and Sarah, because today we're talking Veepe stakes.

1:20.0

The presidential primary is not over, but for most Republicans it is Donald Trump is the likely nominee

1:26.4

and he's already indicated that he knows who his running mate will be.

1:30.6

We of course have no idea who it's going to be here on the NPR Politics Podcast, but we don't even know if he knows who it's going to be.

1:37.0

But we do know a lot about what goes in to this guessing game.

1:40.5

So pour yourself a coffee, take a sip of a beer or your favorite non-alcoholic

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