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Due to her popularity among the moderate US Republican electorate, Nikki Haley was considered a possible vice president despite her rivalry with Donald Trump.
Washington, DC – In preparation for the US election campaign, neither the current US President Joe Bidenthe one for the Democrats wants to compete, nor his opponent Donald Trump have so far officially commented on possible vice presidents. But at least one more name has now been excluded from the campaign of the elected President Trump, after Trump had already spoken to his former deputy Mike Pence has broken.
Another Republican who has now explicitly ruled out Trump as a future “running mate” is the former governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, who ran against the 77-year-old in her party’s primaries, but received significantly fewer votes. But although there had already been heated exchanges between Haley and Trump during this time, some experts, according to media reports, expected that, as a possible vice presidential candidate, she could increase Trump’s support among the more moderate base of the Republican core electorate.
Stefanik, Scott and Burgum: These names are being mentioned in the race for Trump’s “running mate”.
Trump has now announced on his own social media platform “Truth Social” that Haley is in fact not being considered as a “running mate” and wished his former rival “all the best”. At the same time, during his ongoing court hearing in New York, Trump recently boasted that candidates for the office of vice president were lining up to see him.
The personalities that are particularly hotly debated in the debate about Trump’s vice-presidential candidacy currently include Congressmen Elise Stefanik and Tim Scott, the Republican senator from the state of South Carolina, as well as the governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgum. Kristi Noem, Governor of South Dakota, has also been very popular as Trump’s running mate. However, in a recently published book, Noem described how she shot her 14-month-old dog, Cricket, sparking a scandal of her own.
Trump against Pence: Trump’s previous running mate is also no longer in the running in the US election
According to US media reports, the debates surrounding Noem in Donald Trump’s team in recent days have ensured that she, too, is considered a possible future vice-presidential candidate republican was no longer in the running. In all likelihood, Trump should give himself a few weeks to make a decision anyway. Like the transmitter CNN Reportedly, a nomination of the running mate is not likely until mid-July, when the Republicans meet for their National Convention, a kind of party conference, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Trump also announced his decision for Mike Pence as Vice President in 2016 in mid-July.
Further cooperation with his former Vice President Mike Pence, the former governor of Indiana, is considered impossible by both sides. Not only Trump has repeatedly emphasized that he no longer sees Pence as an ally since he did not respond to the demand to prevent Joe Biden from taking office. In March, Pence officially distanced himself from Trump and spoke to the broadcaster Fox News emphasizes that he does not support Trump in the coming election. His reasoning: Trump’s policies are not compatible with the conservative program that Pence and Trump pursued together between 2017 and 2021. (saka with AFP/dpa)
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