--- title: Trump Says He Has Picked His VP, But a Key Detail is Missing description: Donald Trump has stated that he has already decided upon his pick for Vice President in the 2024 election. canonical: https://time.com/6991007/donald-trump-decides-vice-president-pick-2024-election/ author: Rebecca Schneid article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-06-23T14:42:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-01-19T15:52:53.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump Says He Has Picked His Vice President og:description: Donald Trump has stated that he has already decided upon his pick for Vice President in the 2024 election. og:url: https://time.com/6991007/donald-trump-decides-vice-president-pick-2024-election/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9fd33ffe7bd90337/698a580a929fad86a6bfca79/GettyImages-2158175250.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Donald Trump Campaigns For President In Racine, Wisconsin og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump Says He Has Picked His Vice President twitter:description: Donald Trump has stated that he has already decided upon his pick for Vice President in the 2024 election. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9fd33ffe7bd90337/698a580a929fad86a6bfca79/GettyImages-2158175250.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Trump Says He Has Picked His Vice President, But He Has One Key Move Left to Make > Sponsored content. 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Former President Donald Trump, pictured here at a Wisconsin rally on June 18, 2024, has said he's decided upon his Vice President running mate. Scott Olson—Getty Images  by [Rebecca Schneid](https://time.com/author/rebecca-schneid/)  ## Rebecca Schneid Reporter Updated: Jan 19, 2026 3:52 PM UTCPublished: Jun 23, 2024 2:42 PM UTC Former President and current Republican nominee [Donald Trump](https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/) has stated that he has already decided upon his pick for Vice President in the 2024 election, but there’s still one more thing that he needs to do: tell them. During Trump’s stop in Philadelphia on his campaign tour on Saturday, [NBC News asked](https://twitter.com/jake%5F%5Ftraylor/status/1804636415461839049) if he had decided on a running mate. He responded, “in my mind, yeah,” and added that “nobody knows” who the choice is. Per Trump, whoever it is will “most likely” be at Thursday’s CNN presidential debate in Atlanta, the first against his Democrat opponent President Joe Biden. “[They'll be there](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-knows-presidential-selection-will-rcna158457),” he said. “I think we have a lot of people coming.” In an interview for TIME’s [April cover story](https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/) , the former President claimed that many people have been asking to be his Vice President. “Everybody wants to work for me. And a lot of people say, ‘Oh, would he work for me? Oh, would he be a Vice President? Would he accept?’ Vice President? I’ve got everybody in the nation calling me begging me to be vice president,” he told TIME. **Read More:** [_Read the Full Transcripts of Donald Trump’s Interviews With TIME_](https://time.com/6972022/donald-trump-transcript-2024-election/) Narrowing down the options, though, potential vice presidential candidates include North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, [Ben Carson](https://time.com/4998263/governments-hesitant-defender/), and Senators [Marco Rubio,](https://time.com/3820475/transcript-read-full-text-of-sen-marco-rubios-campaign-launch/) [Tim Scott,](https://time.com/6589875/donald-trump-tim-scott-vice-president/) and [J.D. Vance](https://time.com/collection/time100-next-2023/6308553/j-d-vance/). Congressman Byron Donalds and Congresswoman [Elise Stefanik](https://time.com/6965201/elise-stefanik/) are also widely believed to be on Trump's shortlist. In 2016, Trump strategically chose [Mike Pence](https://time.com/6285105/pence-2024-trump-vice-presidents-history/) as his running mate—a fiscal and social conservative who comforted the more traditional Republicans and widened Trump’s support base. The question is whether he will use a similar strategy this time around, or double down with his already devoted MAGA base. **Read More:** [_Here's a Look at Trump's VP Shortlist and Why Each Contender May Get Picked_](https://time.com/6991051/trump-vp-shortlist-contenders/) This is not the first time Trump has enjoyed toying with the media over his VP decision. In January, Trump had a very similar answer for Fox News moderators Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum when they inquired about who he was thinking of choosing to join him. “I can’t tell you that,” he said at a Fox News Town Hall in Des Moines ahead of the Iowa caucuses. “But I know who it’s going to be.” **Read More:** [_A List of Trump’s Allies Coming to Support Him at His Trial_](https://time.com/6977951/donald-trump-new-york-trial-allies/) According to NBC, Trump’s senior adviser Brian Hughes said that the campaign's top criterion for selecting a running mate “is a strong leader who will make a great President for eight years after his next four year term concludes.” Though the running mate could likely be at next week’s presidential debate, Trump has [previously said he will announce](https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/06/politics/trump-running-mate-gop-convention/index.html) his pick for Vice President at the [Republican National Convention](https://time.com/4401622/republican-convention-donations-transparency/) next month, which takes place from July 15 until July 18 in Milwaukee. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6991007/donald-trump-decides-vice-president-pick-2024-election/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6991007/donald-trump-decides-vice-president-pick-2024-election/"},"headline":"Trump Says He Has Picked His Vice President, But He Has One Key Move Left to Make","datePublished":"2024-06-23T14:42:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-01-19T15:52:53.000Z","description":"Donald Trump has stated that he has already decided upon his running mate in the 2024 election.","url":"https://time.com/6991007/donald-trump-decides-vice-president-pick-2024-election/","keywords":["Donald Trump","News Desk"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9fd33ffe7bd90337/698a580a929fad86a6bfca79/GettyImages-2158175250.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rebecca Schneid","jobTitle":"Reporter","url":"https://time.com/author/rebecca-schneid/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9fd33ffe7bd90337/698a580a929fad86a6bfca79/GettyImages-2158175250.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump Campaigns For President In Racine, Wisconsin","caption":"Donald Trump Campaigns For President In Racine, Wisconsin","creditText":"Scott Olson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6991007/donald-trump-decides-vice-president-pick-2024-election/","name":"Trump Says He Has Picked His Vice President, But He Has One Key Move Left to Make"}}]}] ```