Former President Donald Trump is dominating the 2024 Republican presidential race and looks poised to easily breeze through the primaries.
Who will be his running mate?
Former U.N. Ambassador and 2024 Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley.
That’s according to former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., who said he would advise Trump to nominate the former South Carolina governor in a bid to unite the Republican Party heading into an election rematch with President Joe Biden.
Haley has surged in recent polls, rallying much of the anti-Trump wing of the Republican Party behind her campaign.
McCarthy said that’s an opportunity for Trump.
“If I was a political person, and I was going to advise somebody, you’re going to pick the vice president that’s about addition, not subtraction,” McCarthy told Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times. “So you’re not going to pick somebody that already equates to you.”
“Now if I was picking for purely political decisions, what it looks like today is the anti-Trump vote is going to Nikki Haley,” he said.
McCarthy said the move to build a unity ticket could convince independents and skeptical Republicans who would otherwise refuse to vote for Trump to reconsider.
“If that person is with you, maybe they’d be with you too,” McCarthy said, referring to Haley and addressing Trump. “But the question is: Who you select, will they serve? So that’s another question you have to have. And it’s about addition.”
Sorkina asked, “Do you think she would serve?”
“It’s up to Nikki,” McCarthy said. “But this is a bigger question for Trump: If his campaign is about renew, rebuild, and restore, he’ll win.”
“If it’s about revenge, he’ll lose,” he said. “The only person that’s going to determine that is not his campaign ads. It’s him.”
McCarthy, a Trump ally but a controversial figure among conservatives, was asked why he hasn’t yet endorsed Trump heading into the 2024 primaries.
“The campaign is still going. There’s a very good chance I would endorse President Trump,” McCarthy said.
“I believe President Trump will be our nominee,” he later added. “And I believe President Trump will get reelected.”
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