U.S. Senator Marco Rubio is still one of the leading candidates for the position, but he has yet to address a potential legal issue that would prevent delegates from casting ballots for both a president and a vice president from the same position.
Following Thursday’s political argument, Rubio dodged a question in an interview with CNN  regarding whether he would leave Florida if he were chosen as Trump’s running mate in order to follow a provision in the 12th Amendment of the United States Constitution that deals with the citizenship provision.
” Oh, that’s still in there”? Rubio said, laughing. He said that he has n’t been offered the job, and he declined to say whether he would move.
Rubio said it would be “presumptuous” to believe that Trump would be approved, but he added that he thinks Trump may decide to do so in the coming months. Rubio is in the combination, having fought against Trump for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. Many reports have stated that U. S. Sen. J. D. Vance of Ohio and Gov. North Dakota’s Doug Burgum is also present.
” The work has not been offered to me”, Rubio said. No one is a political choice at the moment, and I am no. No one is at this time. We’ll mix bridge when we get to them”.
Voters in the 12th Amendment of the United States never cast ballot for both a president and a vice president from their own position, per a provision in the constitution. If Trump and Rubio were on the same ticket, they would n’t be able to take Florida’s 30 presidential electors unless one of them changes their state of residency.
As a Miami native and the son of working-class Caribbean immigrants, Rubio would be the first Latina candidate to run for president if elected to fill the VP position.
Despite being from the same state, this is not the first time a senator and a vice president may run for the White House. For example, during the 2000 presidential election, therefore- Republican member and Texas Gov. Dick Cheney was chosen as George W. Bush’s working partner.
Cheney changed his state of residence to Wyoming only weeks before Bush chose him for the solution because they were both residents of Texas. Prior to that time, Cheney had served as a representative there.
With the Republican National Convention beginning on July 15 and Trump expected to announce his going mate within the next two or three weeks.
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