The plan is to pair Trump with a leftist, if not Haley, someone like Tulsi Gabbard. Roger Stone and Jack Posobic were tailing about it just tonight.
https://twitter.com/HumanEvents/status/1746724859680280785
It depends on Trump’s margin of victory in the primaries. If it’s a horse race, and Trump is not confident he will win - then yes - he might have to cut a deal to clinch it -like Reagan did in 1980.
What I don’t understand is why didn’t Reagan pick someone else in 1984 when his popularity was peaking and his nomination was virtually uncontested?
Same with Nixon in 1972. He was about to win a record landslide - he had gotten saddled with deep state Ford after Agnew resigned, but why did he not pick a new running mate after the convention? …. can a popular POTUS running for a second term not pick his own running mate?