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Trump confirms Ramaswamy and DeSantis on VP ‘shortlist’
Trump confirmed the shortlisted candidates for his running mate during a town hall event.
Vivek Ramaswamy is shortlisted to be Donald Trump’s running mate in the 2024 elections / Image- X (@vivekgramaswamy)
Republican presidential primary frontrunner Donald Trump recently spoke about the shortlisted candidates for his running mate if he was to win the party nomination.
The candidates in consideration included Indian American biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy who withdrew his contention for the top job earlier this year and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Notably, while Nikki Haley seemed to be missing from the list, one-time democratic presidential candidate and former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who was reportedly in talks with Trump for a ticket as his running mate was one of candidates in consideration.
During a recent Fox News town hall event, host Laura Ingraham asked Trump if his six possible choices— DeSantis; Sen. Tim Scott; Ramaswamy; Florida Rep. Byron Donalds; South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem; and Gabbard were all on his shortlist.
Confirming them to being on the list, Trump said, “Honestly all of those people are good. They’re all good. They’re all solid.” Elaborating on his selection criteria, he said that he wants to pick someone with “common sense.”
“Well always the first quality has to be somebody that you think can be a good President. Because if something should happen you have to have somebody who is going to be a great pick,” Trump said, gesturing to Scott in the crowd.
“I watched his campaign, and he doesn’t like talking about himself. But boy does he talk about Trump. … I called him and I said, ‘Tim, you’re better for me than you were for yourself,’” the former president added.
Meanwhile , Ramaswamy who dropped out of the primary race on January 15 has hailed praises for Trump despite the latter criticizing him as “Not MAGA” and telling his supporters to not be duped by the entrepreneur’s “For Trump” attitude.
"Vivek started his campaign as a great supporter, 'the best President in generations,' etc,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post in response to the “Save Trump. Vote Vivek” t-shirts distributed by Ramaswamy’s campaign. “Unfortunately, now all he does is disguise his support in the form of deceitful campaign tricks,” Trump’s post read.
However, the two appeared to make up after Ramaswamy dropped out, with the latter also campaigning for Trump at a New Hampshire event in mid-January.
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