Donald Trump confirmed Saturday that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence would be his running mate but, if CNN’s Dana Bash is to be believed, he was having cold feet mere hours before he made his pick public.
Scoop: @realDonaldTrump was so unsure about @mike_pence that around midnight last night he asked top aides if he could get out of it
— Dana Bash (@DanaBashCNN) July 15, 2016
“Around midnight last night, so this morning, Donald Trump was on the phone with senior advisors trying to see if he could get out of this,” Bash said Saturday on CNN.
“By all accounts, if he were following his gut he would have gone with Chris Christie,” she said. “But everybody around him in the campaign apparatus had been making these moves to make it so, that Mike Pence would be his running mate.
“Flying him to New York — leaking it, basically, to the press that he was going to make the call (and) telling people in and around the Cleveland convention where conservatives, especially, are gathered ‘don’t worry, wink wink, nod nod, it’s going to be Mike Pence.'”
The rumor was corroborated by NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell.
Sources tell me @realDonaldTrump was on phone till midnight making calls, asking if he could change course on VP pick
— Kelly O’Donnell (@KellyO) July 15, 2016
The Trump campaign reached out to O’Donell shortly after that to “strongly deny” the report.
Campaign strongly denies that Trump was uneasy about Pence pick and calling around, “totally untrue” said Paul Manafort
— Kelly O’Donnell (@KellyO) July 15, 2016
Trump campaign says “there was no wavering” by Trump after Pence name was leaked
— Kelly O’Donnell (@KellyO) July 15, 2016
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