Former President Donald Trump recently dropped a list of four names for VP that included one Black candidate — but it wasn’t Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) or Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), who have been staunch Trump surrogates via Mediaite.
It has been noted that Sen. Scott and Rep. Donalds have been tireless surrogates for Trump, with Donalds even showing up to court for the Stormy Daniels hush money-election interference trial that’s set to wrap up next week.
However, in an exclusive post-rally interview with News 12 New Jersey’s Tara Rosenblum at Crotona Park in the Bronx, Trump didn’t have either of them on his mind.
It has come to light that Trump made his first comments about former Amb. Nikki Haley since Haley quasi-endorsed him, making nice with her after what he called a “nasty” campaign but stopping short of adding her to his VP shortlist.
As Rosenblum pushed Trump to “make news” and name some names, Trump had initially stated that he didn’t want to and then dropped four names a few seconds later that included one Black candidate who isn’t Scott or Donalds and one Hispanic candidate who mocked Trump’s p**is size in 2016:
TARA ROSENBLUM: So if not Nikki, then who? Let’s make some news tonight. You and I, for your hometown TV station. Share with me. Share with me your top three candidates for your running mate at this point.
DONALD TRUMP: Well, we have so many. I don’t want to do that, but we have so many. You could take people like Ben Carson. You could take people like Marco Rubio, JD Vance.
I mean, there are so many. Elise is doing a fantastic job here. But but I could go on for quite a long time. We have many people that would do a really fantastic job.
TARA ROSENBLUM: Do you have a timeline on when you’ll make the decision?
DONALD TRUMP: Sometime during the convention?
