Veepstakes: Trump handicaps three of his top running mate contenders

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With the Republican National Convention set to kick off in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in five days, speculation is soaring regarding whom former President Trump will name as his running mate.

Sources in Trump's political orbit tell Fox News and other news organizations that three names are considered to be at the top of the presumptive GOP presidential nominee's short list.

They are North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and Sens. JD Vance of Ohio and Marco Rubio of Florida.

And the former president, in an interview Wednesday on "The Brian Kilmeade Show on Fox Radio," handicapped his leading contenders.

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Trump was interviewed the morning after he headlined a rally at his Doral golf club outside of Miami, Florida, where Rubio addressed the crowd earlier in the program.

"Marco was great last night, very popular," Trump told Fox News' Kilmeade.

Rubio and Trump traded fire numerous times during the divisive 2016 Republican presidential primaries, but the senator became a strong ally during Trump's tenure in the White House.

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But both Trump and Rubio reside in Florida, and the 12th Amendment to the Constitution states that presidential and vice presidential candidates running on the same national ticket "shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves."

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