Trump's Vice President Search Nears End

NEW YORK (AP) — The Republican vice presidential nominee's plane is currently parked in an undisclosed hangar, an empty spot on its fuselage where a sticker bearing his name will soon be placed.

Fundraisers have been planned.

All that remains is an announcement from former President Donald Trump regarding his choice.

Senior advisers and longtime allies insist they still don't know who the presumptive GOP nominee will choose to join him on the ticket, with many believing the choice is still underway.

The move comes at an unprecedented time of upheaval in the presidential race. President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party continue to grapple with his poor performance in the debates and growing calls for the 81-year-old president to step aside in favor of a younger candidate.

The Democratic crisis has done little to encourage Trump to change the subject with a vice presidential announcement that would surely attract attention and focus attention on his choice.

But Trump will have plenty of opportunities this week to ramp up speculation about a process his team has kept extraordinarily secret.

It could happen any time this week, Trump senior adviser Jason Miller said during an appearance on Fox News.

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Trump has two rallies scheduled. The first is scheduled for Tuesday night at his golf club in Doral, Fla., near Miami. The timing and location of the prime-time rally seem like an ideal opportunity to unveil his choice if it is Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a Miami native and one of his top contenders.

Rubio will be at the event, according to an adviser familiar with the senators' plans, who, like others, spoke on condition of anonymity about the selection process.

On Saturday, he will travel to Pennsylvania, a key state for an afternoon rally at the Butler Farm Show. The venue, outside Pittsburgh, is not far from the Ohio border, home to Sen. J.D. Vance, another potential choice.

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, who has grown close to the former president since dropping his own bid for the nomination before voting began, is also reportedly on Trump's short list.

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Trump doesn’t need a rally to reveal his choice. He could simply announce the news on his Truth Social platform any time between now and the Republican National Convention, which begins in Milwaukee on July 15. Or he could wait until the convention opens to make a big reveal onstage, harking back to his days as a reality TV host on The Apprentice.

Trump has repeatedly said he plans to reveal his choice just before or during the convention. But he has remained tight-lipped about his choice.

Late last month, before the debate, Trump told NBC News at a campaign stop in Philadelphia that he had already made up his mind.

In my mind, yes, he said.

But less than a week later, he told a local Virginia television station that his decision was still pending.

“Well, I have people in mind. I have so many good people. We have a very deep bench,” he said. “But we will make a decision before or at the beginning of the convention.”

Favorites say they don't know yet

As President Trump himself has said, the primary criterion for choosing a vice president is a strong leader who could make a great president, Trump adviser Brian Hughes said in a statement he has released several times. But anyone who tells you they know who or when President Trump will choose his vice president is lying, unless that person's name is Donald J. Trump.

This includes favorites for the position.

During CNN's State of the Union address on Sunday, Rubio said he remained in the dark.

“Look, I haven’t heard anything, I don’t know anything, and you probably know more about this than I do,” he said. “Donald Trump has a decision to make. He’ll make it when he has to. He’ll make the right decision. I know for a fact that I’ll be there for the next three or four months, working for his campaign in some capacity.”

He also dismissed questions about whether he would consider changing his residence outside of Florida if chosen as presumptive nominee. The Constitution prohibits the president and vice president from being from the same state.

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We will face these problems when they come, he said. But we are not there yet. But we will be there soon, one way or another.

On NBC's Meet the Press, Vance also said he had received no word one way or the other: “I haven't gotten the call.”

But most importantly, he continued, we're just trying to get Donald Trump elected. Whoever his vice president is, he's got a lot of good people to choose from, including policies that have worked and leadership styles that have worked for the American people. I think we need to bring that back to the White House, and I'm fighting to try to do that.

Top ally continues to push for Tim Scott

On CBS's Face the Nation, Sen. Lindsey Graham, a longtime Trump ally, continued to lobby for fellow South Carolinian Sen. Tim Scott, the only black Republican in the Senate.

“I don’t think he’s decided,” he said, again making the case for Scott, who he said would be a particularly smart choice if Biden were to be replaced at the top of the ticket by Vice President Kamala Harris, the first Black woman and person of South Asian descent to hold the office.

If Harris is elected, Graham said, it will be a radically different race than the one we have today. I hope people think about that on our side.

Biden insisted he would not give up and said only the Lord Almighty could change his mind.

Graham also praised Trump's other picks. He called Burgum rock solid and said Vance could be a good wingman, but questioned whether the Republican, once a vocal critic of Trump but now one of his fiercest defenders in the Senate, could bring in new states.

Rubio, he said, faces the residency issue, but he called him a very articulate conservative who could help Trump immensely. Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, also speaks Spanish.

If I were President Trump, I would make sure I picked someone who could add value in 2024. Expand the map, Graham said.

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Associated Press writer Michelle L. Price contributed to this report.

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