Now that Clinton and Trump have both clinched the nomination and except for DC the primaries are all over, when will each announce their selection for VP?
6/10: All the tea leaves are saying Clinton will announce Sanders next week. He’s old, but will last thru November. He will balance the ticket with Clinton/Rockefeller Republicans and Wobblies. Trump won’t know what hit him.
Where are you buying your tea?
Shouldn’t be a long wait. The conventions are next month. So at most, a month.
Trump might jump the gun, but my money’s on Hillary not announcing until the convention.
At the convention? that’s generally not done. Would be a bit out of character for her to do something unusual like that.
That’s when Reagan did it, isn’t it?
Besides…just how certain is Clinton about “her” superdelegates?
That was a situation where Reagan was exploring the Ford possibility and the negotiations just went on and on and on.
I think there’s some confusion over leafy products.
Part of the timing decision is to try to control the news cycle.
Clinton’s best windows could be almost right after Trump announces his, or right after the GOP convention to get the news cycle onto the Democratic one as soon as possible. Unless it a very boring one (not a bad decision per se boring but it does not control the cycle as much).
A lot depends on who it is too. If it’s a blockbuster pick like Warren, she could even announce during Trump’s speech.
If it’s Tom Vilsack or Tim Kaine then it won’t make a huge splash but it will buy some positive press on a slow news day. I recall that Biden was announced a few days before the DNC and it wasn’t meant to make a huge splash or step on anything the McCain campaign was doing.
Dan Quayle was announced by George H.W. Bush on the second day of the Republican convention.
Must have been his 20th choice.
What if Trump and Clinton both try to wait for the other one to announce their pick first?
It won’t happen since the Republican convention is before the Democratic one. The party out of power goes first.
She needs roughly 180 of 719 supers to vote for her, and she currently has 582 endorsing her. So barring a catastrophe, she’s in.
Hmm absolutely certain? what are you getting at here?
Bumping as we are now within 4 weeks of the GOP convention and the Democratic one follows its close by just a few days …
So when will they each announce their VP choices?
My guess -
Trump could hold off until the convention itself and I can’t see him doing it any earlier than a few days before it. If so Clinton will wait to announce until the small window between the GOP convention close and the Democratic convention open, so just two days before the Democratic convention opens, squashing any attention on Trump’s show right off.
Supposedly Trump wants to wait till the convention to maximize coverage of that event. Though I guess if enough delegates are making noises about blocking his nomination, he might end up going early and announcing someone he thinks will shore up his GOP support.
That’s assuming he can find someone, of course.
Trump’s performance raises hard question: Who’d want to be his VP?
“I can’t imagine a truly credible person agreeing to be his running mate …"
There are several who would jump at the chance - Gingrich, Sessions, Christie … Acch, but they nae be true credible persons …