DES MOINES, Iowa, Jan 10 (Reuters) – Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he knows who he wants for his running mate in the 2024 race for president and that his commitment to the NATO alliance will depend on how Europeans treat the United States.The frontrunner for the Republican nomination, Trump was asked by anchors at a live Fox News town hall who was under consideration for vice president on his ticket.”I can’t tell you that really. I mean I know who it’s going to be,” Trump told the gathering of Republican voters in Des Moines, Iowa, five days before that Midwestern state’s first-in-the-country nominating context.
In a follow-up question he was asked whether he would be open to mending ties with any of his rivals in the race, to which he responded: “Oh sure, I will.”Speculation about a running mate has focused in part on Elise Stefanik, a Trump ally and fourth-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, and on Nikki Haley, a rival who was U.N. ambassador from 2017-18 during Trump’s administration.