August 10th, 2012
11:16 PM ET
5 years ago
BREAKING: Romney to announce vice presidential pick Saturday
(CNN) - Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will announce his vice presidential candidate Saturday at an event in Virginia, his campaign said.
Romney called several of the Republicans on his vice presidential shortlist on Friday evening to tell them he has selected a running mate and to thank them for assisting with his campaign, a Republican familiar with the calls told CNN.
Romney did not indicate who he selected as his running mate, according to the source.
CNN Political Reporter Peter Hamby contributed to this report.
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Nobody really cares, thats why there are making such a big deal of it.
The GOP should just hang it up.
TAXES, TAXES, TAXES ! I want to see the taxes first !!!!!!!! I WANT TO SEE THE TAX RETURNS HE IS "hiding" obviously SINCE HE WON'T JUST PRODUCE THEM! Then tell me about your "running" mate.....Romney is trying his best to Wag the Dog.......
Plus inspiring people fight for liberty, guess liberty will not stop mister Romney.
It's got to be the horse. Now that's bold.
Presumptive Republican presidential candidate.......I suppose his VP choice will be unofficial and presumptive too??
Hmm....Donald Trump.....or Marco Rubio....hell it could be Sarah Palin......does it really matter?
Maybe a Paulin equiviliant????
Announcing on Saturday means no news pickup and no real time for Sunday talk shows to prepare.
Probably indicates a boring choice, like Rob Portman.
So sorry for whomsoever is gonna be picked!!!!!!!
Paul Ryan. No question.
It will be Rubio.
Do think his POS running mate wil refuse to release HIS taxes too?
Soon we will all know who the other loser is!
Big bird! Paul Ryan
It's going to be rather embarrassing when he flip flops 24 hours later and picks a different VP..
Oh no! What is CNN going to speculate on after it's announced? the majority of ticker stuff for weeks has been about the circus of picking the vp candidate. I, for one, am tired of all of these so-called surrogates. Thank God it is almost over.
Romney cannot chooose a sane repthug so it would be another sarah palin in a suit
Isn't Saturday the Sabbath according to Jews and 7th Day Adventists? Why does he hates Jews and Adventists so much as to work on the holy day?
Since when does anyone "reveal" their VP choice BEFORE their actual nomination. This is exactly why Romney is such a horrible candidate. He acts so high and mighty even before the party nominates him. I suppose Ann decided, after spending half a million on Rafalca, that they had had "enough of you people" and should just run the country on their own without the delegates even voting the oh so above it all Romney for their candidate for the Presidency. What a pair of phonies.
He's gonna pick a General.. he wants in on the military industrial complex. He's already raided corporations, busted unions and sold off american jobs. I bet now he wants to make a little war money for his buddies.
PICK ME! PICK ME! smiles as long as it's not Oprah!
Winners never announced VP picks so much earlier, its usully in the week prior to the convention. Mitt is John Kerry 2012
After Cheney and Palin, just thinking about who the GOP will come up with this time really scares me.
I'm guessing Bob McDonnell.