As former President Trump continues to campaign as the Republican presidential nominee, he is faced with a decision on who to choose as his running mate. With former Vice President Mike Pence, Trump's running mate in 2016 and 2020, now unavailable, many candidates are vying for the post. Yahoo News national correspondent Andrew Romano explains what the Trump campaign is taking into consideration when narrowing down the field.
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So, some things about Trump's search for a running mate already seem pretty clear.
He is considering a number of people, many of whom will add to the so-called diversity list of candidates.
This is a political calculation for Trump because he is going after Latino and black voters.
He is targeting women voters, traditionally a democratic electorate.
What you probably won't see is what Trump did with Mike Pence in 2016, which was to pick a more traditional Republican, someone familiar, because Pence was an outsider and he wanted that balance on this list.
So that will be a big factor in terms of the political dynamics of who Trump picks.
Another element is that this is essentially an audition for the next generation of Republican leaders.
Trump has taken control of the Republican Party.
He remade it in his own image.
That's why someone like Tim Scott, who is a fairly traditional Republican senator, at least politically speaking, and who actually ran against Trump in the nomination, is now kowtowing to Trump and trying to impress him and curry favor with him, because he knows that if he becomes the nominee, this could be a springboard to bigger things.
