Trump’s potential VP picks narrow to four men - here are the frontrunners

Donald Trump has narrowed down his search for a running mate and is focused on four potential vice president candidates, all of whom are men, according to a report.

Trump, who was historically convicted of 34 felony charges in New York last week, has recently received vetting material from some of the candidates,sources told NBC News.

The source told the outlet that the search is concentrating on North Dakota governor Doug Burgum and US Senators Marco Rubio of Florida, Tim Scott of South Carolina, and JD Vance of Ohio.

Another insider told NBC News that it was down to a three-way battle between Burgum, Rubio, and Vance.

The outlet stated that it is not known which of the potential running mates has been asked to provide vetting material to the campaign.

Trump became the first president in US history to be prosecuted when his hush money trial got underway in Manhattan on 15 April.

He was convicted by the New York jury on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment to adult film actor Stormy Daniels.

Trump will be sentenced in New York on 11 July, just four days before he becomes the official Republican nominee for president at the GOP convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The one-term president has said he will likely not decide on his running mate until closer to the convention.

Mike Pence was nominated by Trump just days before the party’s 2016 convention in Cleveland, Ohio.

Other names to be considered include South Dakota governor Kristi Noem, Representatives Elise Stefanik of New York and Byron Donalds of Florida, and Ben Carson, who served in Trump’s cabinet as Housing and Urban Development secretary.

Noem was seen as a strong candidate until she published her autobiography in