Having secured the Republican nomination in all but name, former President Donald Trump, his inner circle, and outside observers in the media and elsewhere have shifted their focus to the next steps he needs to take on the road to the GOP convention in Milwaukee this July. Steps such as building out his fundraising operation and expanding his donor outreach in order to reduce President Joe Biden’s significant cash advantage, establishing field offices and other campaign infrastructure in battleground states, making overtures to Republicans who cast their ballots for Trump’s rivals in the primaries, even continuing to prepare for his four criminal trials, the first of which began April 15 in Manhattan.
But the biggest step Trump takes before the convention will be naming his running mate. Speculation about
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