Personally, I don’t want either Burgum or JD Vance to be Trump’s running mate. Burgum is a Pence clone and JD Vance has been in the Senate for just under two years now, and doesn’t have the experience needed should he have to take over the presidency from Trump one day. Neither Burgum nor Vance help Trump electorally, because they both come from safe Republican states.. So who will Trump pick? Looks like we are going to have to wait till next week to find out.. But if goober Rupert Murdoch has anything to say about it, it would be Burgum, or at least anyone but Vance.
A new explosive report reveals that News Corporation’s Rupert Murdoch has launched an obsessive campaign to try to control former President Donald Trump by getting him to pick North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum as his vice presidential candidate—or at least not pick Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), who he has no influence over.
Murdoch, the story from NOTUS says, has been calling Trump multiple times a day personally and has also, as Breitbart News has previously reported, multiple times enlisted the help of his outlets the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal to push the agenda.
“Rupert Murdoch has launched a full-scale lobbying effort to get Donald Trump to pick North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum for vice president, sources told NOTUS,” NOTUS’s Reese Gorman wrote. “And if Trump won’t pick Burgum, these sources said, Murdoch apparently has one last request: At least don’t pick Sen. J.D. Vance. Sources told NOTUS Friday that Murdoch has been pushing for Burgum — and against Vance — for quite some time now, both over the phone and by dispatching surrogates to Trump in person. A source close to Trump told NOTUS that Murdoch has been regularly calling the former president — often multiple times a day — to urge him to choose Burgum. One Fox News communications consultant told NOTUS that Murdoch had also sent employees from the New York Post down to Mar-a-Lago to bash Vance and make the case for the North Dakota governor. And the source close to Trump told NOTUS something similar — that Murdoch had sent News Corp executives to meet with the former president to personally make the pitch for Burgum and against Vance.”