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The <keyword id="19895782" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Election-Commission" source="keywords">Election Commission</keyword> has received eight applications from aggrieved <keyword id="19902220" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="candidates" source="keywords">candidates</keyword>, including those from the <keyword id="19894848" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="BJP" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="BJP" meta.hostid="153" meta.entityid="BJP">BJP</keyword> and the <keyword id="19895371" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Congress" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Congress" meta.hostid="153" meta.entityid="Congress">Congress</keyword>, for verification of tampering or modification in micro-controller chips embedded in the EVMs post declaration of Lok Sabha election results on June 4. Terming the suspicion of manipulation of the electronic voting machines "unfounded", the <keyword id="19895345" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Supreme-Court" source="keywords">Supreme Court</keyword> had on April 26 rejected the demand for reverting to the old paper ballot system. But at the same time, the top court had opened a window for the aggrieved unsuccessful candidates securing second and third places in the poll results and allowed them to seek verification of micro-controller chips embedded in five per cent EVMs per assembly constituency on a written request upon the payment of a fee to the poll panel. BJP's Ahmednagar (Maharashtra) candidate Sujay Vikhe-Patil has sought verification of the machines from 40 <keyword id="20300567" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="polling-stations" source="keywords">polling stations</keyword>. Vikhe-Patil had lost to Nilesh Lanke of NCP (Sharad Pawar) faction. A YSRCP and a DMDK candidate too have applied for the verification, according to data shared by the poll panel. According to the EC, eight parliamentary seats spread across six states are involved. The total number of polling stations for which verification has been sought is 92. Candidates who come second or third and seek verification of the EVMs will have to pay Rs 47,200 per EVM set, according to the standard operating procedure issued by the EC on June 1. According to the EC's Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), the cost submitted by manufacturers BEL and ECIL to carry out EVM "check and verification" is Rs 40,000 (plus 18 per cent GST) per set of EVM. "In addition to the cost incurred by the manufacturers, there are also administrative costs like cost of labour to shift the units, CCTV coverage, electricity charges, videography costs and various other operational costs at the district election officer level," the document said. It, however, said to make the <keyword id="21143428" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="verification-process" source="keywords">verification process</keyword> "more accessible" and inclusive in compliance to the referred mandate of the Supreme Court, it is decided that instead of going purely by the actual economic costs incurred, the administrative expenditure on <keyword id="22122362" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="EVM-verification" source="keywords">EVM verification</keyword> will be treated as "election expenditure and borne by the central or state government, as the case may be". "Accordingly, the administrative charges will be waived for the applicants -- the same shall not be charged to the applicants," it noted. The charges for EVM verification to be paid by the applicant candidate is for the current financial year 2024-25 -- till March 31, 2025, it said. An EVM set has at least one Ballot Unit, one Control Unit and a <keyword id="19975285" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="vvpat" source="keywords">VVPAT</keyword> machine. Separately, YSRCP and BJD candidates from Andhra Pradesh and Odisha respectively have also applied for EVM check following the announcement of assembly results on June 4. Assembly polls in Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh were held along with the Lok Sabha elections. In the verification exercise for assembly poll results, total assembly constituencies involved are three where verification has been sought in 26 polling stations. According to the SOP, the concerned state chief electoral officer (CEO) was required to communicate to the manufacturers the consolidated list of applicants within 30 days of the date of declaration of results -- by July 4. The CEOs have already conveyed the same to the manufacturers 15 days ahead of the schedule, the EC said. The technical SOP enumerating the methodology and steps for checking and verification of burnt memory/ micro-controller of the EVM units will be issued by the EC in due course.

EC receives applications for EVM verification on 8 LS seats in 6 states

Senior BJP leader and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister <keyword id="6355042" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Devendra-Fadnavis" source="Orion">Devendra Fadnavis</keyword> will take decisions on <keyword id="549985" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="seat-sharing" source="Orion">seat-sharing</keyword> and <keyword id="22753690" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="negotiations-with-allies" source="Orion">negotiations with allies</keyword> for the upcoming assembly polls in the state, a party leader has said. The move aims to prevent undesired delays by streamlining preparations for the assembly elections due in a few months, BJP's Mumbai unit chief <keyword id="6367689" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ashish-Shelar" source="Orion">Ashish Shelar</keyword> told reporters on Sunday. "The core committee (of the state unit) has met in Mumbai to delegate all decision-making powers concerning seat-sharing and the selection of assembly constituencies to Fadnavis," he said. Party observer and Union minister Bhupender Yadav, BJP national secretary Vinod Tawde, Union minister and Mumbai North MP Piyush Goyal also attended the meeting. Of the 288 assembly seats in Maharashtra, the BJP won 104 in 2019. Shelar confirmed finalisation of the "formula for winning, besides the planning and seat-sharing arrangements with the allies". "Fadnavis has been granted full authority in this regard," he said. The BJP-led Mahayuti, also comprising Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena and the NCP headed by Ajit Pawar, won only 17 of the 48 Lok Sabha seats in the state in the recent parliamentary polls. The BJP's tally came down to 9 from 23 five years ago. The Maha Vikas Aghadi, consisting of the Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (SP), bagged 30 seats. Shelar said, "We have decided to save time by streamlining the planning, discussions, and decision-making processes with all the NDA constituents to finalise the candidates. Once this is done, we can begin preparations for the assembly polls. The list of candidates will be released at the appropriate time." After the BJP's Lok Sabha tally came down to 9 in Maharashtra, Fadnavis had offered to quit the deputy CM's post to enable him to focus on party work ahead of assembly elections. Later, after a party meeting where state BJP legislators passed a resolution reposing faith in him, Fadnavis said he would continue to work.

Maharashtra polls: Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis to decide on seat-sharing, negotiations with allies

Mumbai (<keyword id="19897316" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="maharashtra" source="keywords">Maharashtra</keyword>) [India], February 13 (ANI): Former Maharashtra Chief Minister <keyword id="20501102" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="ashok-chavan" source="keywords">Ashok Chavan</keyword> joined the Bharatiya Janata Party at the party's office in Mumbai on Tuesday. Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, party leader Ashish Shelar and Maharashtra <keyword id="19894848" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="bjp" source="keywords">BJP</keyword> president Chandrashekhar Bawankule were also present at the occasion. Former <keyword id="19895371" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="congress" source="keywords">Congress</keyword> MLC Amar Rajurkar, who resigned from the party on Monday, also joined the BJP today. Asserting to make a new change in his 38-year political career <keyword id="20559325" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="chavan" source="keywords">Chavan</keyword> said, "Today, I am making a new change in my 38 years of politics by joining BJP. To join the country's development journey under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi." "I will ensure that the BJP gets the full benefit of my experience and understanding in politics. After leaving Congress, some people criticized me, some people also supported me, some people also made different comments, but I would like to say once that I will take all these things together and move forward positively. Today I have given my form to become BJP member which has been accepted by Bawankule ji," he added. "Maharashtra politics has its own color, in which we also respect our opponents. When Devendra Fadnavis was the leader of the opposition and we were in power, we used to cooperate with each other positively and even today we do positive work to take the state and the country forward," The former CM said that he is ready to accept any post the party gives adding that he has not demanded anything. "I will accept whatever role the party gives me. I have not made any demand for any role or post from the party. I will accept whatever the party has decided for me," Chavan said. "The decision I have taken is my personal decision and I am just the beginning, so at the moment I am not saying much on this subject, I am ready to fulfill whatever responsibility will be given to me positively, that's all I would like to say," he added. According to sources, Ashok Chavan is likely to be BJP's Rajya Sabha candidate from Maharashtra putting Congress in a tight spot. Ashok Chavan resgined from the primary membership of the Congress party on Monday. Chavan submitted his resignation to Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee President Nana Patole. "I have resigned from the Assembly membership as an MLA. I have given my resignation to the Speaker. I have resigned from the Congress Working Committee and the Congress primary membership," Chavan told reporters after resigning from Congress on Monday. Ashok Chavan was the Vice President and General Secretary of the Maharashtra Pradesh Youth Congress Committee from 1986 to 1995. He served the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for three terms, starting in 1999 and ending in May 2014. He served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra State from December 8, 2008, to November 9, 2010. On November 9, 2010, the Congress Party asked him to resign from office over corruption allegations relating to the Adarsh Housing Society scam. In the 2014 general elections, Chavan was elected from the Nanded constituency but lost the seat in 2019 Pratap Patil Chikhalikar of the BJP. He is the third big name to desert the Congress ship in Maharashtra. First to go was former South Mumbai MP Milind Deora, followed by former MLA Baba Siddique. (ANI)

Did not demand any role or post, says Ashok Chavan as he joins BJP

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INDIA bloc leaders gathered at <keyword id="19895812" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jantar-Mantar" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Jantar Mantar" meta.hostid="153" meta.entityid="Jantar Mantar">Jantar Mantar</keyword> here on Tuesday to demand the release of Delhi Chief Minister <keyword id="19901384" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Arvind-Kejriwal" source="keywords">Arvind Kejriwal</keyword> amid his declining health and hit out at the BJP-led Centre for "suppressing" the voice of <keyword id="19895395" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="opposition" source="keywords">opposition</keyword>. They also blamed the Centre for obstructing the work of the Delhi government, therefore leading to the recent incident in Rajinder Nagar where three students died after getting trapped in a flooded basement of a coaching centre. Slogans of "Bharat Mata Ki Jai" and "End dictatorship" were raised during the <keyword id="19895811" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="protest" source="keywords">protest</keyword> rally called by the <keyword id="19914482" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="AAP" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="AAP" meta.hostid="153" meta.entityid="AAP">AAP</keyword>. CPI(ML) Liberation leader Dipankar Bhattacharya said three senior AAP leaders -- Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain were put in jail as "part of a conspiracy". He also accused the Centre of obstructing the work of the Delhi government, and held them responsible for the situation in the national capital, including the Rajinder Nagar coaching centre deaths. "The Modi government is responsible for the anarchy in Delhi. This anarchy took the lives of the three <keyword id="20217536" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="UPSC-aspirants" source="keywords">UPSC aspirants</keyword> in Rajinder Nagar. <keyword id="19894848" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="BJP" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="BJP" meta.hostid="153" meta.entityid="BJP">BJP</keyword> took the lives of three UPSC aspirants," Bhattacharya said during the rally. "They tried to end AAP, weaken Delhi government as part of a conspiracy. The elected chief minister is in jail. Umar Khalid and many activists are in jail in false charges in Delhi riots. Bhima Koregaon fake case, father Stan Swamy was in jail and he even died while in custody. There is a huge conspiracy against leaders, activists," he said. The BJP-led Centre is "trying to suppress the voice of those who oppose them", he said. "Six months ago when Arvind ji, Hemant ji were arrested, we knew it was a conspiracy because Lok Sabha elections were there," he said. "Hemant ji came out, there was an appeal to stop his bail but it was dismissed. Kejriwal ji was released for less than a month. Now though he has been given a bail there is a conspiracy to keep him in jail," he said. "It is a conspiracy to finish a democratically elected government and a political party," Bhattacharya said, urging the people to give their reply to the BJP in upcoming assembly polls in Haryana, Maharashtra and Jharkhand by defeating the BJP. "The recent mandate has proved that people won't tolerate tyranny. We will ensure justice,"he added. Communist Party of India general secretary D Raja also demanded the immediate release of the Delhi chief minister, and expressed concerns about his health. "After BJP's coming to power, democracy is no longer 'for' the people, democracy is 'far' from people, democracy is not 'of' the people, it is 'off' the people, and it is not 'by' the people, it is 'buy' the people," Raja said. "Kejriwal is one of the victims of the central agencies used by the Modi government. Can we allow this? How much longer can we tolerate this situation in the country. Kejriwal is not well and his health has deteriorated," he said. AAP Delhi convener Gopal Rai said Kejriwal's sugar levels are going down in custody. "He was granted bail by trial court and Supreme Court but a conspiracy was hatched to keep him in jail. Why does BJP want to put opposition leaders in jail? Who is responsible for the deaths of the three UPSC aspirants?" Rai said. "When LG is being asked about the incident, he is quiet. The BJP, which is demanding Kejriwal's resignation, snatched away the powers of the Delhi government. They want rights but run away when they are held accountable," he charged. has been accusing the BJP of "conspiring to kill" Kejriwal in jail and cited his medical report to show that his sugar levels have fallen 34 times between June 3 and July 7. Nationalist <keyword id="19895371" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Congress" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Congress" meta.hostid="153" meta.entityid="Congress">Congress</keyword> Party - Sharadchandra Pawar (NCP-SP) chief Sharad Pawar and Deputy Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi are also present in the INDIA bloc rally. Congress Rajya Sabha MP Pramod Tiwari referred to Kejriwal's wife Sunita as a "symbol of resistance" as he began his address. "We have come to give complete moral support to AAP and Kejriwal on behalf of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, and party leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in the struggle against illegal arrest of Arvind Kejriwal. The arrest of Kejriwal in an illegal and unconstitutional manner indicate nothing but the bad intentions of the BJP," he alleged. Tiwari said it was "height" of inhumanity to keep Kejriwal in jail despite his medical reports showing dip in his blood sugar to a dangerous level. The Congress and AAP had fought the recent Lok Sabha elections in Delhi in alliance. AAP had fielded candidates on four seats and Congress on three seats. However, the alliance drew a blank. Gogoi warned the BJP and its leaders saying they cannot scare the opposition whether it is AAP, Congress or any other party. "Their illusion lies shattered with this rally. If fair Lok Sabha elections had been held in 2024, the BJP would have been in opposition and we would have been in power. The BJP-led government is not going to complete its five-year term," he stressed. Kejriwal was arrested on March 21 by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam and has been granted bail by the Supreme Court. However, he is currently lodged in Tihar in a connected CBI case.

INDIA bloc leaders gather at Jantar Mantar, demand release of Delhi CM Kejriwal

<ul class="summary-list"><li>In the unlikely event <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-if-biden-ends-his-reelection-bid-1968-dnc-2024-2">Joe Biden drops out, </a>his party's nomination will be thrown into chaos.</li><li>Biden and his allies have also implemented changes that stack things in his favor.</li></ul>Some Democrats have grown antsy over <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-ruth-bader-ginsburg-comparison-age-health-step-down-2024-2">President Joe Biden’s status</a>. While even some members of Congress are voicing concerns about his age, there’s little that could be effectively done to stop the president.And if he were to suddenly drop out à la LBJ in 1968, his party would face immediate chaos. It’s a near certainty that such a scenario would require an open convention, an event that hasn’t been seen in recent memory.It is worth remembering that there are no constitutional provisions regarding presidential primaries and very few details about the election of the president itself. The current system is the result of self-interested leaders, shell-shocked parties, and the constant debate about who should really have the power to elect a presidential nominee. Here's a breakdown of how we went from smoke-filled rooms and chaotic conventions to our modern system.<h2>What were early presidential elections like?</h2>Neither the primary process, if it existed at all, nor the general election are anything like their current counterparts. Revolutionary War hero George Washington was the easy choice for the white male property owners who decided the nation’s early elections. Washington’s decision to not seek a third term upended the system. The nation’s framers hadn’t anticipated political parties, but John Adam and Thomas Jefferson’s fierce rivarly quickly divided the top officials. Members of Congress, due to their proximity to political power, began informally and then increasingly publicly nominating their preferred candidates. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/42622825?read-now=1&amp;seq=11#page_scan_tab_contents">Not everyone was happy with the system</a>, which multiple state legislatures rallied against in part due to constitutional concerns about the separation of power. The chaos of the election of 1824, the only presidential election to be thrown to the House, hastened the end of this approach.The Anti-Masonic Party, perhaps the U.S.’s first dominant third party, paved the way for a new method when it held the first national convention in 1831. (incredibly, they still chose a Mason as their nominee.) Soon after, as Jill Lepore <a target="_blank" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/04/conventions-primaries-and-the-presidency">recounted</a> in The Atlantic, then-President Andrew Jackson’s desire to have his Democratic Party follow suit helped enshrine a new tradition into American politics.<h2>What were early conventions like?</h2>They were also nothing like modern conventions. Jackson supported the already ongoing expansion of voting rights to most white men, Daniel Feller, Editor/Director Emeritus of The Papers of Andrew Jackson, <a target="_blank" href="https://millercenter.org/president/jackson/the-american-franchise">wrote</a> in a summary of the former general's rise to power. Even that push didn’t change the real power that was selecting the nation’s presidential nominees. Detractors may have killed the congressional caucus, but the convention delegate system was another avenue for political elites to determine their respective party’s nominees. This era did give us one of the best cliches, <a target="_blank" href="https://politicaldictionary.com/words/smoke-filled-room/">the smoke-filled room</a>.Conventions didn't start to resemble what currently occurs every four years until much later. For example, it wasn't until FDR accepted the Democratic Party's nomination in 1932 that nominees began to show up for formal acceptance speeches, a major part of the modern convention.<h2>What are primaries and how did we get them in presidential elections?</h2>Progressive reformers were tired of political bosses. They sought to weaken elite officials' power through primary elections at all levels. In 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt won most of the GOP primaries, but few states actually held such elections. Unable to usurp William Howard Taft, his successor, Roosevelt started a third party of his own, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/memorable-presidential-elections-american-history-2020-10#theodore-roosevelt-started-a-third-party-in-the-1912-election-and-took-a-bullet-to-the-chest-at-one-campaign-stop-3">The Bull Moose Party</a>. Slowly, the primaries began to take hold, not as definitive nomination contests but as data points for party elites to assess the relative strength of candidates.Dwight D. Eisenhower notched a major upset in the 1952 New Hampshire GOP primary that upended Robert A. Taft's perceived frontrunner status. Eisenhower went on to win the Republican nomination on the first ballot. On the Democratic side, Then-Sen. John F. Kennedy’s win in the West Virginia primary helped to soothe fears that some top party officials held about how a Catholic presidential candidate would be received.Some defend this system and want to return to it, because it mixed a limited number of primaries with the power of party figures. As Richard Pildes, a constitutional law professor at New York University School of Law, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/05/25/two-myths-about-the-unruly-american-primary-system/">wrote in 2016</a>, this approach allowed party loyalists to maintain some control over the primary process. It was a year of sheer chaos that provided the final push to start modern presidential campaigning.<h2>Why is 1972 the start of the modern era?</h2>The 1968 Democratic National Convention was a disaster. President Lyndon B. Johnson shocked the country by announcing he would not seek reelection. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy were gunned down just months apart. And an outcry over the Vietnam War loomed over everything. Democrats were already entering an uneasy situation for their national convention in Chicago. The party’s decision to nominate Vice President Hubert Humphrey, a pro-war candidate, who had run in any of the limited number of primaries, was vocally rejected by some delegates on the floor. News coverage of that drama was interrupted by a violent riot that unfolded outside. The legacy of Chicago held on for so long that questions were raised about whether Democrats should go back there for their convention this summer nearly 60 years later.In the wake of the violence, Democrats launched a massive overhaul of their presidential primary process. Then-Sen. George McGovern helped co-lead the commission aimed at opening up the delegate selection process in more democratic ways, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.thisnation.com/politics/elections/how-did-political-party-conventions-start/">such as requiring</a> more female delegates, establishing a quota for younger delegates, and pushing away from the old tradition of making delegate selection in secret. McGovern, <a target="_blank" href="https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-oral-histories/george-mcgovern-oral-history">who later said</a> he was asked to help lead the panel due to his favorability among all wings of the party, later used the knowledge to help clinch the presidential nomination under the new rules.According to some officials who worked on the commission, their changes had the unintended effect of popularizing state presidential primary elections. The Republican Party soon followed with its review. The upshot was party elites were now less powerful than they had been in decades. While Democrats have continued to study and tweak how they run presidential elections ever since. <h2>How did the top officials respond?</h2>Like they had in the past, party officials quickly tried to claw back power. Critically for Democrats, this led to the creation of so-called super delegates<a target="_blank" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/19/democratic-party-superdelegates-history-rules-changes"> in the early 1980s</a>.While the initial goal was to limit their number, by 2016 superdelegates made up 15% of the available delegates, a sizable chunk in what became a more closely contested primary than initially anticipated. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ supporters responded by calling for limits on superdelegates’ power.In 2018, superdelegates <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/25/politics/democrats-superdelegates-voting-changes/index.html">were officially barred</a> from voting on the first ballot if a candidate did not secure a majority of the delegates without the party officials’ support. In short, party officials’ hands are initially tied, even if they want to cast the deciding votes.<h2>What has Joe Biden done?</h2>Biden continued the tradition of tweaking the process. He went further than any recent proposal, angering Iowa and New Hampshire Democrats by pushing them further down in the party’s primary calendar. He also elevated <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-2024-democratic-presidential-primary-calendar-dnc-south-carolina-2023-7">South Carolina to first</a>. Officially, the Democratic National Committee had to approve the plan, but it was largely rubber-stamped. If Biden were to drop out tomorrow, any hopeful would have to face this reality. Some states, such as Florida and North Carolina, have either canceled their primary election or made it a de facto Biden victory by only listing one candidate on the ballot.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Tom Cotton has emerged as a potential running mate for former President Donald Trump.</li><li>Cotton, first elected to the Senate in 2014, is known for his staunchly conservative views.</li></ul>High-profile GOP figures like Senators <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-vance-donald-trump-jr-close-friendship-gop-america-first-2024-4">JD Vance of Ohio</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tim-scott-trump-running-mate-2024-republican-party-2022-2">Tim Scott of South Carolina</a> have long been bandied about as potential running mates for former President Donald Trump.But one of their Senate colleagues has also emerged as a potential pick: Tom Cotton of Arkansas.According to The New York Times, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/us/politics/tom-cotton-trump-vp.html">Trump sees Cotton</a> as adept at cable news appearances, an important conduit for reaching GOP audiences. The former president also admires Cotton's military service and overseas deployments and speaks highly of the senator's Harvard-educated background.In addition to Cotton, Vance, and Scott, Trump is also strongly considering Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida as potential running mates, according to the Times. The former president has also mentioned the five politicians as possible cabinet choices should he choose another candidate as his No. 2.Individuals close to Trump who spoke with the Times said the ex-president isn't wedded to any particular figures and could consider other Republicans as the final decision looms.Of the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-vice-president-running-mate-power-rankings-2024-5">candidates on Trump's radar</a>, all have been reliable foot soldiers of the former president's conservative views. And Trump — embroiled in myriad legal issues — is looking to tap a well-regarded candidate who won't create any major controversies for his campaign, the Times reported.Burgum briefly ran for president against Trump last year but suspended his campaign in December and threw his support behind the ex-president shortly before the Iowa caucuses. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-little-marco-rubio-2016-2">Rubio famously jostled with Trump</a> during the 2016 Republican primaries but has since overwhelmingly supported the former president.Cotton and Scott were strong legislative allies of Trump during his first administration, and Vance has emerged as one of the former president's leading "America First" adherents in the Senate.When Cotton — who was first elected to the Senate in 2014 — was asked last week about being part of a potential second Trump administration, he said he's mostly spoken with the former president about <a target="_blank" href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-vp-shortlist-allegedly-has-top-contender-report">strategies for winning in November</a>."I suspect only Donald Trump knows who is really on his short list," Cotton told Fox News. "When we do talk, we talk about what it's going to take to win this election … to elect President Trump to another term in the White House and elect a Republican Congress."While Cotton's selection would be a huge hit with conservatives, it is unclear if he would be able to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-haley-suburbs-gop-problem-north-carolina-virginia-2024-3">help Trump with suburban voters</a> — a weak demographic for the former president — especially given the senator's strong anti-abortion views.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>David Robinson, who's spent the last two years searching for his son, is running for US Congress.</li><li>The veteran hopes his campaign will add momentum to the search for Daniel, who disappeared in July 2021.</li></ul>Every fortnight or so, David Robinson starts his YouTube livestream, upbeat and all smiles."When the lights and camera turn off, I will be here," he rumbles in <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geKag__jWPc&amp;t=82s&amp;ab_channel=PleaseHelpFindDaniel">one of his intros.</a> The Arizona desert appears on the screen. "When the interests and conversations fade, I will be here."A 53-year-old Army veteran with a clean-shaven head and thick-rimmed glasses, Robinson speaks for up to several hours at a time about the search for his young adult son, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/daniel-robinson-search-three-months-continues-search-for-him-2021-9">Daniel</a>. Each video typically receives less than 400 views.It's been two and a half years since Robinson began investigating his son's disappearance and since he crossed state lines into Arizona, where Daniel vanished in July 2021. Robinson's GoFundMe has raised over $370,000 to fund search operations there, and he leads a social media campaign to raise awareness for his search.But 33 months in, he's frustrated."It's inexcusable for us to have as many missing persons cases in this country as we do," he said in <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QClWYHnh8-Q&amp;t=453s&amp;ab_channel=PleaseHelpFindDaniel">a stream on March 10</a>.Stuck on leads and battling tensions with law enforcement, Robinson, a father of five, has turned to a new move to find his son: He's running for Congress.<div type="image" title="David Robinson speaks about his run for US Congress on his YouTube livestream." height="1326" width="2503" msid="110774272" hostid="261" sizebytes="83828"></div><h2 id="87f9d704-8d1d-422c-a444-c7730c8b4397">A case gone cold</h2>Robinson announced his bid on March 18. He's running for the 2nd district of South Carolina — his home state — as a Democratic candidate.Rep. Joe Wilson, a 76-year-old Republican, has held the seat for decades and won with margins of around 10 to 20% in the predominantly white district in the last five elections.Robinson told Business Insider he's campaigning to push the investigations of tens of thousands of Americans still recorded missing by the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh241/files/media/document/307566.pdf">National Missing and Unidentified Persons System</a>."Working with law enforcement to push my son's case, I learned a lot," Robinson said. "I had to work with state officials, government officials, law enforcement, and I have a bigger understanding of why we have so many missing people in this country."<div type="image" title="Daniel Robinson poses with friends from college." height="853" width="1280" msid="110774269" hostid="261" sizebytes="152636"></div>But Robinson's focus is still fixed on Daniel.<h2 id="6fca00e2-1638-409b-a504-020b1ab4bd6f">An empty jeep in the desert</h2>Robinson's son, a young geologist born with a missing arm, was 24 years old when he went missing near Buckeye, Arizona.A coworker last saw him at a well site on the morning of June 23, 2021. When family members couldn't contact Daniel that evening, Robinson filed a missing persons report. Police interviewed the coworker, who said he saw the tire marks of Daniel's 2017 Renegade Jeep headed west.A month later, the blue jeep was found empty on a rancher's land, rolled over in a ravine four miles from Daniel's job site. His ID, keys, phone, wallet, and clothes were left near the jeep, per a Buckeye Police Department report seen by BI.<div type="image" title="Daniel's jeep was found turned on its side on a rancher's land in the desert." height="1200" width="2400" msid="110774268" hostid="261" sizebytes="129510"></div>Robinson has <a target="_blank" href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2023/09/29/new-information-on-daniel-robinson-who-has-been-missing-since-2021/71007618007/">repeatedly told news outlets</a> that police suggested that Daniel voluntarily "undressed himself totally and walked off naked in a desert."Some signs indicate that Daniel might have felt troubled the day he went missing. Text records in police reports show that Robinson had a dispute with a young woman he was interested in just before disappearing. And the morning he vanished, Daniel made remarks about going to Phoenix "to rest," his coworker told police.The idea that Daniel abandoned his life and family has been the heart of the disagreement between law enforcement and Robinson, who hired a private investigator.<h2 id="8ab5d6f6-ca36-4627-b1c1-ecf74ef30e93">A father's 2,000-mile drive and beyond</h2>When Daniel first went missing, Robinson drove some 2,000 miles from South Carolina to Arizona after hearing the news."I kind of lost that reality and just grabbed what I could and threw it in my car without thinking and started driving," said Robinson, who worked 13 years as a truck driver before joining the US military.He said he spent his first days in Arizona searching Daniel's Tempe apartment and speaking to people who'd seen him recently.He'd stay awake to read more about the region online at night. "I was trying to figure out the desert, understand it," Robinson, who fought in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010, said.<div type="image" title="Robinson meets with local volunteers." height="1080" width="1080" msid="110774259" hostid="261" sizebytes="82800"></div>Over the next two years, Robinson built a small following on YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram to broadcast information about his son's disappearance.Volunteers would arrive to scour the desert, growing from an initial 20 people per search to up to 200 at a time.<div type="image" title="Robinson, a Christian, prays with volunteers before they search for Daniel." height="1365" width="2048" msid="110774262" hostid="261" sizebytes="323990"></div>But after 49 weeks of organized searches, they still haven't found Daniel.Robinson has criticized the Buckeye PD's response, saying officers refused to treat the investigation with foul play in mind.<div type="image" title="Robinson searches with his volunteers and private investigator." height="1440" width="1920" msid="110774266" hostid="261" sizebytes="355808"></div>Speaking to BI, a Buckeye PD spokesperson praised Robinson's search efforts but said the department hasn't found evidence that someone else was involved in Daniel's disappearance."If evidence like that does come to light, that would absolutely be part of the investigation moving forward," the spokesperson said. They said officers searched Daniel's last known location the evening he was reported missing. Later, law enforcement carried out <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gabby-petito-renewed-urgency-find-missing-daniel-robinson-2021-9">a grid search</a> for with dogs, drones, and a helicopter.<h2 id="5dae16cc-bd80-4950-92a7-54d6036ec47c">Missing persons cases in the US</h2>Three months after Daniel went missing, Robinson's search finally made national headlines, largely off the disappearance of another young adult in 2021 — the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gabby-petito-missing-timeline-locations-brian-laundrie-relationship-history-2021-9">van-life YouTuber Gabby Petito.</a><div type="image" title="Gabby Petito in a park" height="2405" width="4000" msid="110774270" hostid="261" sizebytes="397888"></div>Petito's vanishing captured America's attention, with thousands of amateur sleuths on TikTok and social media <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gabby-petito-brian-laundrie-missing-found-true-crime-tiktok-2021-9">massing behind law enforcement's search for the 22-year-old.</a> Her remains were discovered weeks after the case went viral, and authorities found that her fiancé strangled her before killing himself.With the nation's renewed interest in true crime cases, Robinson highlighted his son's disappearance on major outlets, though the case never took social media by storm like Petito's. He often wonders what could have been if #HelpFindDaniel also <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gabby-petito-tiktok-viral-posts-brian-laundrie-disappearance-criticism-2021-9">received 1 billion views.</a><div type="image" title="David Robinson at a booth for the search for Daniel." height="2949" width="3946" msid="110774275" hostid="261" sizebytes="846940"></div>The viral search for Petito led to widespread criticism against the media for the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/experts-missing-women-of-color-are-not-centered-news-coverage-2021-9">"Missing White Woman Syndrome,"</a> which underscores how missing people of color are often disproportionately left out of news coverage. In 2021, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.npr.org/2022/12/05/1137193397/missing-persons-of-color-news-coverage-disparities">almost 40% of the 521,000 persons</a> reported missing in the US involved missing persons of color.But Robinson harbors no ill will against Petito's family, saying he bonded with them over shared pain in searching for a loved one. He and Petito's parents have <a target="_blank" href="https://www.azfamily.com/2023/09/29/fathers-daniel-robinson-gabby-petito-speak-together-crimecon-about-disparities-cases/">spoken at events </a>to raise awareness for missing person cases."When you have a missing loved one, you want to help everybody," Robinson said.<h2 id="f35aae98-cbb1-4bb8-976a-ccf12e472a10">A dream to see his son one more time</h2>Now a congressional hopeful, Robinson said he's using his platform to promote searches for other disappeared Americans.The war veteran said he's leaning on his experience uniting hundreds of volunteers in Arizona, regardless of their political beliefs or race.He often mentions his run for Congress on the GoFundMe for Daniel but said the $370,000 he's raised on the website won't go to his campaign.It's difficult to determine exactly how long that amount can sustain Robinson's search.The International Commission on Missing Persons told BI it's "impossible" to estimate the average cost of a search and recovery operation.Tammy Phillips, the director of business operations at missing persons nonprofit Texas Equusearch, said each search is different. "The cost of a search depends on things such as location, terrain, time since disappearance, land or water, on foot or in a vehicle, travel &amp; lodging for searchers, the list goes on and on," Phillips told BI.Even if US law allowed Robinson to use his GoFundMe for his campaign, it wouldn't be enough to attain the typical war chest of a candidate running for Congress.US House candidates have spent an average of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview?cycle=2024&amp;display=A&amp;type=M">$1.4 million on the 2024 election so far</a>, and in 2022, the top-spending candidates <a target="_blank" href="https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/winning-vs-spending">won 93.65% of their races.</a>Wilson, the incumbent in Robinson's district, spent about $468,000 this cycle and has $330,000 cash on hand, per <a target="_blank" href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/wilson-joe/summary?cid=N00024809">OpenSecrets.</a>Both men are running for their respective primaries on June 11.<div type="image" title="Robinson and his son pose together outside a bar restaurant." height="1021" width="817" msid="110774276" hostid="261" sizebytes="44410"></div>Two and a half years since the search began, Robinson dreams of talking with Daniel just one more time. When they lived on different sides of the country, they would call each other for two hours at a time."I'll tell him I love him. I love him, and I wouldn't push him. But anything he needs to tell us or talk to us about, he can do that," Robinson said.

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