--- title: Veepstakes: On the GOP Side, It's About the Drama description: It's veepstakes season. The favorite on the Democratic side is Tim Kaine. Donald Trump will wait for the convention to announce his choice. canonical: https://time.com/4390977/veepstakes-on-the-gop-side-its-about-the-drama/ author: Zeke Miller article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-01T14:54:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-06T09:39:31.965Z article:section: Politics og:title: Veepstakes: On the GOP Side, It's About the Drama og:description: It's veepstakes season. The favorite on the Democratic side is Tim Kaine. 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Hillary Clinton calls Donald Trump_ by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Jul 1, 2016 2:54 PM UTC Hillary Clinton calls Donald Trump by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Jul 1, 2016 2:54 PM UTC **_If you only read one thing:_** _It’s veepstakes season, as both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump go about the final selection of their running mates. While names abound, the clear favorite on the Democratic side is Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, a former governor who would double-down on Clinton’s message of core competency. (He’s also the only Senator on the short list with a Democratic home state governor—important for the control of the Senate.) The Republican side will be far more interesting, and the timing all the more uncertain. Trump had promised to wait until the convention in Cleveland to name his Veep in order to heighten the suspense and get the most out of it, but that timeline could shift, aides say. But the overall guiding principle of Trump and his senior advisors when it comes to selecting the running mate appears to be ‘drama.’ From mere moments after securing the GOP nomination in early May, Trump aides and the candidate himself have leaked details about the search, commented on the size and make-up of the short-list, and suggested contradictory names as favorites. The focus on the process of the decision—who is involved and who wasn’t—betrayed the campaign’s desire to heighten the interest in the ‘how,’ not just the ‘who.’_ _The former reality television star is taking a playbook from his past career, knowing that a simple selection is nowhere near as interesting as a drawn-out competition. Names like Newt Gingrich, Chris Christie, Mary Fallin, Jan Brewer, and Tom Cotton are certainly being discussed—and the timing may well be in flux. So a word of caution about GOP VP stories—the campaign’s interest is about ginning up drama over facts. Take_ _a top Trump aide previewing the Veep discussion over the coming two weeks, teasing “a lot of excitement and suspense in run up to convention.”_ **Donald Trump** is once again under scrutiny for his use of a charity he runs for potentially personal uses, in this case using his own charity to purchase sports memorabilia from another. President **Barack Obama** revealed his blindspot to populism Wednesday in his remarks in Canada, TIME’s David Von Drehle writes. And Congress is playing chicken over responding to yet another public health crisis. **Bernie Sanders** is still pretending he’s not endorsing **Hillary Clinton**, correcting Vice President **Joe Biden** for saying an endorsement was forthcoming, even though he’s pledged to vote for her. And Clinton will earn to powerful surrogates next week as Obama and Biden will join her on the trail for the first time. The Navy’s expensive cello. Trump splits with his new digital strategist after 48 hours. And Donald Trump’s [influence](http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/notrump%5Ffalk%5Fgelman%5Ficml.pdf) on Bridge contracts. 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Bernie’s going to endorse her. This is going to work out.” —Vice President Joe Biden to NPR. “We are working with the Clinton campaign, trying to be able to come forward to my supporters and say: You know what, here’s the progress we have made. Here’s what Secretary Clinton is saying on this issue and that issue.” —Bernie Sanders to MSNBC on his non-endorsement support of Clinton. **Bits and Bites** [What Bernie Sanders Still Wants](http://time.com/4390594/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-democratic-party/) \[TIME\] [Australian election brings first animated political lens to Snapchat](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/06/30/australian-election-first-animated-political-lens-snapchat/86546528/) \[USA Today\] [The $75,000 Cello: One Reason Military Bands Hit a Sour Note](http://time.com/4390137/cello-military-band-air-force/) \[TIME\] [Refugees Encounter a Foreign Word: Welcome](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/world/americas/canada-syrian-refugees.html?smid=tw-share&%5Fr=1) \[New York Times\] [Michael Symon on Donald Trump: ‘There’s not a chance I’d let him into one of my restaurants’](http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2016/06/michael%5Fsymon%5Fon%5Fdonald%5Ftrump.html) \[Cleveland.com\] [Trump parts ways with newly hired digital strategist](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/donald-trump-vincent-harris-digital-225009) \[Politico\] [Navy Punishes 9 for Stumbling Into Iranian Hands](http://time.com/4389616/navy-iran-sailors-report/) \[TIME\] ## Transcript [00:00] Donald Trump wants to be our next Commander in [00:04] Chief. [ NOISE ] [00:09] I think we all know that that is a job that demands a [00:13] calm, collected, and dignified response [00:17] to these kinds of events. [ APPLAUSE ] [00:23] [ APPLAUSE ] [00:28] Instead, yesterday morning, just one day [00:32] after the massacre, he went on TV and suggested [00:37] that President Obama. Is on the side of the terrorists. [00:41] [ SOUND ] [00:43] Now, now just think about that for a second. Even [00:47] in a time of divided politics, this [00:52] is way beyond anything that should be said by [00:56] someone running for President of the United States. [01:00] [ APPLAUSE ] What Donald Trump is saying Is shameful. [01:05] It is disrespectful to the people who were killed and [01:08] wounded and their [01:11] families. [01:14] [ APPLAUSE ] [01:16] And it is yet more evidence That he is temperamentally [01:21] unfit and totally unqualified to be Commander In Chief. [01:25] [ APPLAUSE ] So, if Donald suggests I won't call this [01:28] threat what it is, he hasn't been listening. But I [01:33] will not demonize and declare war on an entire [01:37] religion. And, [ APPLAUSE ] Trump, as usual, [01:41] is obsessed with name calling. And, from my [01:45] perspective, it matters what we do, not just [01:49] what we say. 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