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PBS News Hour - Segments

Who's on Trump's running mate shortlist and what his decision will tell us

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

Daily News, News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Former President Donald Trump says he will choose a running mate in the next few weeks and will likely unveil his nominee at a major turning point in the campaign. Lisa Desjardins has been covering the Trump campaign and reports on what his decision will tell us. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Former President Donald Trump says he'll choose a running mate in the next few weeks and will likely unveil his pick at a major turning point in the campaign.

0:08.0

I think I'll announce who that person's going to be during the convention. I think that's pretty normal during the convention.

0:14.4

It would be an interesting period of time.

0:16.5

Our Lisa Dejahardan has been covering the Trump campaign and joins us now

0:19.7

to talk more about this.

0:20.6

So Lisa, based on your your reporting who seems to be under

0:23.0

consideration well this is basically a political reality show from a man who

0:27.0

starred in a reality show and first let's start with who Trump is naming because

0:31.6

he is dropping a lot of names.

0:33.7

Tim Scott, he has been much better for me than he was for himself.

0:37.3

I watch this campaign and he doesn't like talking about himself, but boy does he talk about Trump.

0:44.0

Doug Bergham has been incredible and the country is lucky to have him.

0:48.0

You could take people like Ben Carson, you could take people like Marco Rubio, J.D. Vance.

0:53.0

I mean, there is so many Elisis doing a fantastic job.

0:57.0

Elis Staphonic there.

0:58.5

Now, let's talk about what's really happening here.

1:00.7

I want to look at the kind of group of names that's been most

1:03.2

in circulation in the last month and a half. I had 10 names. There's people who

1:06.3

come in and out, but in the last few weeks we know two of those names have

1:09.5

essentially dropped off Carrie Lake there at the bottom and Christine Nelm.

1:12.9

So let's focus on these eight.

1:14.8

My reporting is that the Trump campaign has asked

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