Now the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Corker would bring serious foreign policy chops to a Trump ticket.
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While Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) wasn’t quite so honest with Trump, she dropped a big hint that she didn’t think being veep was for her.
‘I made that very clear to him that I’m focused on Iowa.
In a statement released after the meeting with Trump, Marc Lotter, a spokesman for Pence’s campaign, stressed that the governor was still focused on re-election and that nothing had been offered by Trump or accepted yet.
“Really, we’re looking to go more the political route in terms of getting legislation passed, which is what they do, and I think, frankly, we don’t want to do the executive orders like Obama’s been doing”, he said. And to be around the people that have worked in the Trump organization for 25 and 30 years. Ernst is going and is more than willing to speak. Gregg has raised about million during that same time period. The Trump family is most impressive. Clinton’s campaign has aired more than 22,000 commercials in battleground states in the past month, according to Kantar Media’s campaign advertising tracker.
Trump is expected to pick his running mate before the convention.
At a campaign rally in Raleigh, Corker appeared on stage with Trump and said after spending time with Trump, his family and work associates, he had come to see why the NY real-estate mogul is beloved by his followers. “It fits into this whole idea that this is a guy who is more a creature of Washington than IN”. “I’m just better suited for other kinds of things”. The two were to travel together to a Trump rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Tuesday night. I’ve got things to do back home.
But a few weeks later, Corker publicly criticized the Republican nominee for his words against a judge with Mexican heritage, saying he disagreed with Trump completely.
People close to Ernst said she didn’t seem particularly interested in being vetted prior to Trump reaching out.
On Wednesday, Trump is to be joined for an event in Cincinnati by Newt Gingrich, a former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives who Trump is considering for the No. 2 position.
Ernst, meanwhile, is now slated to address the convention on national security.
Pence is among the top tier of prospective candidates, several Republican strategists told IndyStar. Before the choice of Paul Ryan was announced, Romney’s team had the Wisconsin congressman fly into Hartford, Connecticut, instead of Romney’s Boston headquarters to avoid detection.
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Trump, who values loyalty, doesn’t know Pence as well as some of the other candidates under consideration.
