On his big trip to North Carolina Tuesday to steal Hillary's thunder, Donald Trump lined up Sen. Bob Corker—a possible VP pick— to join him on stage. "I wasn't going to say anything. I just came to visit," Corker told the crowd, before delivering the most the forgettable two minutes, 30 seconds of the 2016 election cycle.
If it wasn't clear then that he didn't have any desire to be in the room with Trump, it sure was by Wednesday when Corker withdrew his name from consideration as Trump's runningmate, reported Bob Costa:
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), the chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee who has recently emerged as a finalist in the search for Donald Trump’s running mate, told The Washington Post in an interview Wednesday that he has taken himself out of consideration for the position.
Corker said that he informed the presumptive Republican presidential nominee of his decision during their day together on Tuesday, when the senator had a series of meetings with campaign officials in New York and then flew with Trump to an evening rally in North Carolina.
Corker wasn't the only one who didn't want to share Trump’s spotlight—neither did Pat McCrory, the GOP governor who's fighting for his political life, nor Republican Sen. Richard Burr, who's barely hanging on to a three-point edge over his Democratic challenger, Deborah Ross.
On the other side of the aisle, Ross and the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Attorney General Roy Cooper, both joined Hillary Clinton and President Obama for their rally.
But don't worry, Trump assures us that people are just lining up to join him on stage at the GOP convention.
Looks like the big reveal will actually be tomorrow. But let’s hope that prediction turns out a little better than the one he fired out just one day before appearing with Corker, who's no longer interested.
Oh, and did we forget to mention, Sen. Joni Ernst isn't interested either. They’re dropping like flies.