Trump's potential 2024 running mates include Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Republican Sen. Tim Scott, per NYT's Maggie Haberman
- Sen. Tim Scott and Sarah Huckabee Sanders are being floated as Trump's potential 2024 running mates.
- That's according to reporting by New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman.
Former President Donald Trump has been considering his ex-White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina as possible running mates should he pursue a 2024 presidential campaign, according to New York Times' Maggie Haberman.
Haberman, who's closely reported on Trump since the start of his political rise, shared her thoughts on the former president's 2024 ambitions during an interview with "The View" on Monday.
"There's a couple of people whose names have been mentioned. The one that actually gets mentioned the most by people close to him is Tim Scott from South Carolina, the senator, and then Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who's possibly the next governor of Arkansas," Haberman said when asked who she thinks Trump might pick as his vice presidential nominee if he runs.
Haberman's comments come ahead of the Tuesday release of her new book, "Confidence Man," which chronicles Trump's life in New York, his four years in the White House and his post-presidency. Haberman interviewed the former president three times for the book.
Since leaving office, Trump has repeatedly teased at running for president again. Haberman on Sunday told CBS News that she thinks it's likely Trump will launch a 2024 bid, but may not see his campaign all the way through.
"I think that he needs the protections that running for president, he thinks, would afford him in combating investigations that he calls a 'witch hunt,'" she said. "And it is the way that he fundraises and makes money. So much of his identity now is about being a politician. So I expect that he will run. That doesn't mean that even if he declares a candidacy that he will stay in the whole time."
Sanders served as Trump's second press secretary from 2017 to 2019. Before that, she had been an advisor on Trump's 2016 campaign. She's now the Republican nominee for governor in Arkansas, the office that her father, Mike Huckabee, held from 1996 to 2007.
Scott, a Trump ally and the only Black Republican in the Senate, appeared open to the idea of being Trump's running mate when asked earlier this year.
"I think everybody wants to be on President Trump's bandwagon, without any question," he told Fox News in February. "One of the things I've said to the president is he gets to decide the future of our party and our country because he is still the loudest voice."