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<p>With <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/very-online-and-very-glitchy-gov-ron-desantis-announces-for-2024-gop-presidential-nomination?ref=home">Gov. Ron DeSantis’ entrance into the 2024 presidential race</a>, the GOP primary battle is finally—truly—underway. And yet Trump and his allies already seem more interested in another race: the veepstakes.</p>
<p>While Trump was previously fixated on <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-shortlist-of-vice-president-picks-all-have-one-thing-in-common">picking a woman for his VP candidate</a>, a little-known congressman from Florida has apparently caught the former president’s eye.</p>
<p>The chatter started the night of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/terrible-timing-of-donald-trumps-town-hall-has-allies-freaking-out">Trump’s CNN town hall</a>, when second-term Rep. <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-congressional-candidate-byron-donalds-tests-positive-for-covid-19-hours-before-rally-with-trump">Byron Donalds</a> (R-FL) sat in on <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-failed-america-with-its-trainwreck-of-a-trump-town-hall">the network’s post-game coverage</a>. Donalds wasn’t just overly effusive of Trump’s performance; he skillfully chastised CNN and the town hall moderator, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/kaitlan-collins-given-cnn-primetime-show-after-hosting-trump-town-hall">Kaitlan Collins</a>, for repeatedly interrupting the former president.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-push-to-make-rep-byron-donalds-donald-trumps-veep-pick">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/US House of Representatives
While Trump was previously fixated on picking a woman for his VP candidate, a little-known congressman from Florida has apparently caught the former president’s eye.
The chatter started the night of Trump’s CNN town hall, when second-term Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) sat in on the network’s post-game coverage. Donalds wasn’t just overly effusive of Trump’s performance; he skillfully chastised CNN and the town hall moderator, Kaitlan Collins, for repeatedly interrupting the former president.
