With time ticking down to the announcement of Donald Trump’s running mate, DailyMail.com can reveal that no one has yet been offered the gig.
The party convention in Milwaukee is expected to reveal the former president’s choice of vice president on Monday.
But a source familiar with the process said late on Monday morning: ‘No one has had it offered to them yet.’
Insiders say he has whittled it down to a choice from three: Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, or Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakotoa.
Fox News anchor Bret Baier said the president had told him he would be announcing his decision today.
But Trump is well known for making last-minute decisions and keeping his audience guessing.
At the same time, he must decide whether to reexamine the process after Saturday’s shocking events, when an assassin’s bullet came within an inch of killing him.
Would it make Vance’s hardline MAGA rhetoric less palatable amid Trump’s own calls for unity?
Does it make Rubio’s long experience in the Senate more useful?
Would Burgum’s experience running a state make him better suited to stepping in to take over the top job if an assassin succeeds?
Or could Trump throw a curveball, selecting a candidate from his long list, such as Rep. Byron Donalds or Sen. Tim Scott, or someone entirely unexpected?
The veep nominee is due to address the convention on Wednesday.
And Trump will close the four-yearly jamboree a day later after being crowned the nominee for the November election.
He has repeatedly shruggged off the idea that he would pick someone who might help him win the election by nailing a region or a demographic group.
Instead he said he would pick someone who could take over if necessary.
‘You need somebody that can be good just in case, that horrible just in case,’ he said in May.