Donald Trump Begins to Plot His Post-Nomination Future
More at link: Donald J. Trump will decide in the next week whether to accept support from “super PACs.” He is leaning toward a conventional political figure as a vice presidential pick. He has not yet spoken with Senator Ted Cruz. And those haters who’ve been the most critical of him? He doesn’t necessarily want their support.
Those were a handful of comments Mr. Trump made in four phone-in interviews on morning TV shows the day after he became the Republican party’s presumptive nominee.
Mr. Trump told the hosts of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, in his first appearance of the day, that he was debating whether to accept support from super PACs. Mr. Trump had made bashing such groups a staple of his campaign stump speeches, and a change to embrace taking unlimited contributions from a single donor would be significant.
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By Nolan D. McCaskill 05/04/16 06:54 AM EDT Updated 05/04/16 07:50 AM EDT Donald Trump’s campaign has begun vetting vice-presidential picks, but it’s too soon to disclose any names, the presumptive Republican nominee said Wednesday.
Calling into MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” following a decisive victory in Indiana that knocked Texas Sen. Ted Cruz out of the race, Trump was mum on naming people he’s considering as his running mate.
“Well, it’s too soon. I just don’t want to do it,” Trump said. “I think that, you know, a lot of people are talking about certain names, and certainly those are the names we are thinking of.”
He did, however, suggest he would choose a politician.
“I have the business, let’s call them talents, and I think I’ll probably go the political route,” he continued. “Somebody that can help me with legislation and somebody that can help me get things passed and somebody that’s been friends with the senators and congressmen and all so we don’t have to go the executive order route as much as Obama did, you know, where he can’t get anything approved so he just keeps signing executive orders.”
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