Former President Donald Trump and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) are both Florida residents, and
Sen. Marco Rubio couldn’t overcome a major hurdle when it came to being considered former President Donald Trump’s running mate: The fact that he and Trump both live in Florida. The Trump campaign and Rubio had conversations over the last 10 days about whether and how the residency question could be overcome, said a person familiar with the discussions, who requested anonymity to share private conversations. “They wanted to be 100 percent confident in the legal parameters,” the person said.
” So a Trump-Rubio ticket could have prevented the 30 Florida electors from casting their vote if Republicans were to have won the state. Rubio would have had to move but still would almost certainly have faced a legal challenge from Democrats or an outside group. Asked whether the possibility about giving ex-primary rival Gov. Ron DeSantis the power to appoint a replacement to the seat if Rubio was selected, the person said it had been a “pure residency question.
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