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| U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., August 10, 2020. (Photo by= REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque) |
[아시아뉴스통신=레악카나 기자] President Donald Trump said Tuesday (Aug 11) that some men may feel "insulted" by his Democratic rival Joe Biden's commitment to choose a woman as his vice presidential candidate. "He roped himself into a certain group of people," Trump told Fox Sports Radio in an early morning phone-in interview."
Some people would say men are insulted by that and some people would say it is fine," Trump said.Declaring that he wants a government as diverse as the country itself, Biden committed early in his campaign, in March, that he would name a woman on the ticket. He is expected to announce his choice this week. Only two other women have been nominated vice presidential candidates - Sarah Palin by the Republican party in 2008 and Geraldine Ferraro by the Democrats in 1984 - and neither made it into the White House.
No woman has won the presidency either.In the radio interview, Trump praised his own vice president, Mike Pence, but said bluntly: "people don't vote for the vice president, they really don't". "You can pick George Washington to be a vice president. Let's pick up Abraham Lincoln, coming back from the dead. They just don't seem to vote for the vice president."
