Republicans close to the campaign say Trump and his team are considering announcing his running mate pick next week ahead of the convention, to be held July 18-21 in Cleveland, to try to get maximum media buzz from the decision.
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Iowa senator Joni Ernst said Wednesday she wants to stay “focused on Iowa” rather than serve as Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate, just days after meeting with the presumed Republican nominee.
Corker, who is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, would have boosted the billionaire businessman’s foreign policy bona fides.
“There are people far more suited for being a candidate for vice president”, Corker told the publication. Bob CorkerBob CorkerTrump to Capitol for frank talk with anxious GOP Trump’s VP list shrinks The Trail 2016: It ain’t over till it’s over MORE as a potential running mate.
On Wednesday, Trump is set to campaign with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in Ohio. “So I don’t think he could go wrong”.
Grassley says Ernst’s military and legislative experience, and her expertise as someone from a rural, agricultural state would be assets to the NY real estate mogul.
He appeared with Trump at a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Tuesday.
Senator Joni Ernst today said her recent private meeting with Donald Trump revealed a side of the candidate not many have seen in public. “And Iowa is where my heart is”, Ernst told POLITICO Wednesday.
Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump spent his Independence Day holiday weekend meeting with Republican Gov. Mike Pence of IN and Republican Sen.
Time magazine named the former Chattanooga mayor a year ago to its annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people, alongside world leaders such as President Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. But he added he was “very positive” about Trump as a person.
A former state lawmaker and military veteran with a rural upbringing, Ernst has been considered a rising star in the Republican Party since she became Iowa’s first woman in Congress in 2014. During the holiday weekend Trump visited with Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and Iowa Sen. “I spent a good deal of time with Ivanka and Jared”, Trump’s elder daughter and her husband, Jared Kushner.
Corker said he’d spent about eight hours with Trump on Tuesday, meeting with several of his children and aides in NY.
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“The only people who are not interested in being the VP pick are the people who have not been asked!”
