A wide slate of potential running mates for former President Donald Trump is in Florida this weekend while he works to narrow down his shortlist, but that just shows “how deep the bench is right now,” pollster Jim McLaughlin told Newsmax Saturday.
“I don’t know. And I’m not gonna pretend to know” who Trump’s pick will be, said McLaughlin, appearing on Newsmax’s “The Count” with GOP strategist Luke Ball. “Kamala Harris might be the only politician in the country who’s actually more unpopular than Joe Biden. And that’s the dilemma that the Democrats find themselves in.”
McLaughlin added, though, that in a Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll of grassroots conservatives, more than 70% said they wanted “either somebody of color or a woman or both.”
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