Brian Kilmeade Presses Trump On Whether JD Vance’s Beard is a VP Dealbreaker
Fox News radio host Brian Kilmeade pressed former President Donald Trump on whether he’d ruled out Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) as his potential vice president because of his beard.
Kilmeade, fresh off the set of Fox & Friends, conducted an exclusive interview with the Republican presidential candidate who has yet to reveal his running mate.
The off-beat question about Vance’s facial hair comes after The Bulwark’s Marc Caputo and Tim Miller reported that although Trump has praised the Ohioan lawmaker’s “beautiful” blue eyes, the beard is too much.
In response Trump denied this was the case.
KILMEADE: Real quick, on your vice president candidate, word is that you won’t pick J.D. Vance because of his facial hair. Is that true?
TRUMP: No.
KILMEADE: You know, facial hair?
TRUMP: Never heard that one. He looks good. Looks like a young Abraham Lincoln.
KILMEADE: Right? He’s a handsome man.
TRUMP: Nah, he’s a nice guy.
Kilmeade continued through a list of potential vice presidential picks and asked whether the strict abortion ban signed in by North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum last year had hurt his chances. Trump replied that the abortion ban is “a little bit of an issue” but that he thinks “Doug is great” – differentiating that the state has taken a strong stance: “I don’t know if it’s Doug.”
Asked whether Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) being from Florida would stop Trump from selecting him as running mate, Trump said: No, but it does make it more complicated.”
He continued: “It makes it more complicated. There are people that don’t have that complication. Now it’s fairly easily fixed, but you have to do something with delegates or there has to be a resignation, you know, etc., etc.. So it’s not like picking some people where it’s very easy, where there is none of that. Florida, meaning two people can’t be running on the same ticket. You actually can. But they take delegates and taking delegates is, you know, a very risky thing to do.”
In closing, Trump said that he would finally reveal his pick “the old fashioned way” at the Republican National Convention set to take place in Milwaukee next week.
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