The Hillary Clinton campaign is expected to begin rolling out its announcement of Clinton’s vice presidential running mate on Friday afternoon, multiple news outlets reported on Friday.
The exact timing isn’t clear, but Clinton will first announce her choice in a text message or email to supporters on Friday afternoon, according to the New York Times and CNN.
NBC News reported that Clinton will announce her pick in a text message on Friday afternoon and later reveal her choice at a Friday afternoon event.
Clinton is already in Florida where she will be holding two events Friday, the first at 1:15 p.m. ET and the second at 4:30 p.m. ET.
She is not expected to appear with her running mate until a Saturday afternoon event in Miami, according to CNN and NBC News. That event is planned for noon on Saturday at Florida International University.
Sources tell me that @HillaryClinton will announce her #VP pick today w/ first joint appearance tomorrow @NBCNews
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) July 22, 2016
First word about @HillaryClinton‘s #VP pick will come today by text from the campaign before her rally this afternoon in Tampa @NBCNews
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) July 22, 2016
The New York Times reported on Friday morning that Clinton had narrowed her picks to Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, and Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, with Kaine as the favorite. Clinton is also considering Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ).
I am signed up for a text notice, Think that was last week.
Wonder if she’ll still announce in the midst the Munich shooting coverage.
Man, here’s hoping that the media doesn’t know what it is talking about. Because that is a depressing shortlist. Kaine of course being on the bottom of my list. He’d be as inspired of a choice as Joe Lieberman was for Al Gore.
Late Edit: I admit that I don’t know that much about Tom Perez, but as per @avattoir’s suggestion, I read up on him and he actually seems like he could be a good choice. But Kaine and Vilsack… no thank you.
I thought you were referencing the Beer Hall Putsch, then I clicked on BBC.
Hopefully it will be Kaine. Then you will have two centrist Democrats running against 2 right wing nutjob Republicans. This will really help defeating the Toilet/Paper team.