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Trump isn’t choosing a running mate. He’s casting a co-star
It’s a political reboot of his reality show, The Apprentice.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was America’s first reality-TV president, and now he’s reviving the hits.
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Ramin Setoodeh
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The public jockeying by various candidates to become Donald Trump’s running mate has taken on the air of a circus.
At the Manhattan criminal courthouse where he was being tried for falsifying business records (and was found guilty on all 34 counts), a parade of acolytes appeared, often wearing Trump-red ties, in apparent hopes of impressing their potential future ticket mate: Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio, Senator Rick Scott of Florida, Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, the businessman and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and others.
