The former president of the United StatesDonald Trump considers the Cuban-American senatorMarco Rubio as a possible candidate to occupy the position of vice president if he wins the November elections.
Rubio, representative of Florida, is moving up the list of candidates, as revealed toNBC sources close to the former president.
In statements on March 13 toNewsmax, Trump assured that he has the election "in his brain" and will not announce it.
"We're going to elect someone who is really good, really conservative; loves law and order, low taxes, low interest rates and borders," he described.
In that interview, the Republican leader estimated that there are 15 people he is considering to be his running mate in the race for the White House.
"The list is long and it is still premature in any type of process. No one has been contacted directly yet and I don't expect that to happen for some time," a Trump adviser confirmed toNBC.
If Rubio's option materializes, they will have to somehow overcome the Constitution's prohibition on voting for a president and vice president of the same state.
"The Electors shall meet in their respective States and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom at least one shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with themselves," states Article II in Section I, Clause 3.
In the opinion of a veteran Republican operative from Florida, it is quite clear, from Trump's orbit, that Rubio's figure is at stake. "It makes sense because he checks almost all the boxes, if they can get over the fact that they're both from Florida," he said.
In 2000, Dick Cheney, a native of Texas, changed his residence to Wyoming so he could be vice president during the term of his compatriot George W. Bush.
Rubio, 52 years old and a senator for the third time, has not expressly stated whether he is interested in the vice presidency.
"We're both from the same state, so it probably doesn't work that way," he toldFox News in January.
The politician, son of Cuban immigrants,announced that he would support Donald Trump's candidacy in the primaries of the Republican Party, noting that his leadership is the only way to achieve the "extraordinary actions necessary to solve the disaster" created by Biden.
"When Trump was in [the White House] I achieved important policies that I had worked on for years (such as the expansion of the Child Tax Credit and tough sanctions on the regime in Cuba and Venezuela), because we had a President who did not give in to special interests nor did he allow the bureaucrats to block us," he recalled.
"It's time to continue the work of defeating Biden and saving the United States!" he stressed.
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