Vice, Vice, Baby: Who’ll Be Trump’s Running Mate?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
As the election comes closer into view, potential candidates are lining up to be on the ticket with Donald Trump in 2024.
After former Veep Mike Pence rules himself out, Americast assembles to answer FAQs about who makes the shortlist and why. Plus, what makes a good VP anyway? And what do they actually do?
Find out in the latest Americast.
HOSTS: • Sarah Smith, North America editor • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondent
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This episode was made by Chris Flynn with Rufus Gray, Catherine Fusillo, and Claire Betzer. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The series producer is George Dabby. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.8 | Sounds like someone's got mail. |
| 0:07.3 | Yeah, you know, I've been getting a whole lot of email from a whole lot of people, |
| 0:10.5 | but in particular from Donald Trump and his presidential |
| 0:12.8 | campaign. Let me read one that just came to me fairly recently. The subject line |
| 0:17.8 | is can I tell you who my VP is and then you have the big Trump banner and a button saying cast your vote and a |
| 0:24.3 | memo from Trump that says friends can I tell you who my vice president is |
| 0:27.7 | second thought I have a much better idea before the day is over I want to hear |
| 0:31.7 | from you on who my VP should be. |
| 0:34.3 | I'll be making the choice soon. |
| 0:36.0 | And then he goes on to say that's why I'm asking for you to please submit your results now |
| 0:39.7 | answer today and with your input we will make America great again and of course it |
| 0:44.0 | goes on to ask for some money now you might get a lot of emails from Donald |
| 0:47.6 | Trump Anthony I get a few he texts me a lot and you know what they've started |
| 0:51.4 | beginning with dear Sarah I love you |
| 0:54.0 | I don't get texts from him Sarah maybe he does love you yeah I don't think anyone |
| 1:00.2 | else in the world gets those texts which is something possibly we should do an entire episode of America |
| 1:04.8 | and simply about that. But anyway, drawing a veil as they say, moving swiftly on, he's a showman. That's the point, isn't he? He's a showman and he's found a way to get everyone's attention yet again. |
| 1:17.3 | He is so good at this. So he has trapped us into discussing this, but it's not just him, I should say, because we've had this email from Edward, dear AmeriCast, there has been little speculation about Trump's possible running mate. It will be too late to speculate |
| 1:35.2 | once he decides, so please crack on. Edward, this is for you. |
| 1:40.8 | Welcome to AmeriCast. AmeriCast from BBC News. |
| 1:47.0 | Let me start off with two words. |
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