By EFE
May 27, 2024, 18:17 PM EDT
Washington, (EFE).- The race for the eventual vice presidency of Donald Trump in the event that the former US president wins the elections in November has accelerated its pace while the Republican revels in the unknown and offers himself the hand kisser of a varied range of personalities, from ultra-conservative to ultra-religious.
The messages from his campaign team to future voters are common and offer them to participate in that game: “Who do you think I will choose? I want you to decide! You will know before the fake news,” those constant emails say.
Nikki Haley, former United States ambassador to the UN during part of her mandate and the last Republican candidate to give up due to the popular pull of the former president, has just been added to the possible list.
On Thursday, Haley publicly announced that she was going to vote for him in November, although she urged him not to assume that his own base would automatically support him, and Trump was quick to return the gesture, leaving the door open to being his number two. in case of returning to power.
The former president stated that he believed that Haley was going to be on his team “in one way or another,” and although on January 11 he had said that he did not have her in consideration for the coveted position, this time he dodged the question to speak instead of other candidates who in his opinion have done a “fantastic job.”
Among them, the president of the Republican Conference, legislator Elise Stefanik, who has said that she receives as an honor that her name is in that pool and who, as a reflection of the support she professes for him, assures that if she had held the vice presidency in 2020 she would not have allowed the results of the previous elections to be certified.
Outcome in July
The election is usually announced on dates close to the conventions or directly in those meetings that formalize the nomination of the candidate of both parties.
The Republican will hold it between July 15 and 18 in Milwaukee, while the Democrat has it scheduled for August 19 to 22 in Chicago, although in that case it is already clear that the president, Joe Biden, opts for his current second , Kamala Harris.
There was as much certainty on the Democratic side as there was uncertainty on the matter on the conservative side. Another newcomer to the vice-presidential race is the ultra-conservative Arkansas legislator Tom Cotton, who renewed his seat in the Senate in 2020 and whom Trump privately praises for his communication skills and his time in the Army, which included deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But Cotton’s three colleagues in the Upper House remain in the favorites roulette: Marco Rubio of Florida, Tim Scott of South Carolina and JD Vance of Ohio, in addition to North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum.
Of them, few have shown him more devotion than the African-American Senator Scott, who admits to being deeply religious and has suggested that he does not believe in the separation of church and state. “I love you!” he shouted at her in January from the stage where Trump stood to celebrate his victory in the New Hampshire Republican primary.
Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants and who already aspired to the White House in 2016, has never shown great chemistry with Trump, but it would bring the former president closer to a key community in hinge states.
In 2021, according to the Pew research center, there were 62.5 million Latinos in the United States, 19% of the total population, and 36.2 million will be able to vote this year.