As Vice President Harris nominates her running mate in Philadelphia next week and begins a tour of battleground states, speculation is rife about whether she might announce Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (Democrat) as her running mate.
Some have suggested the location was a sign that Shapiro will be chosen, but video footage and reports show that in at least the past 12 elections, a presidential candidate has not announced his running mate in Shapiro’s home state, which has far too often been the case in the presidential candidate’s home state.
Here’s where past presidential candidates have announced their running mates:
2020 Elections
Joe Biden formally introduces Harris As his running mate Harris was elected to the U.S. Senate from her hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, on August 12, 2020. At the time, she was serving as a senator representing her home state of California.
2016 Elections
Hillary Clinton, who lives in New York, introduced Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) as her running mate. Campaigning in MiamiPrior to joining the Senate, Kaine served as Governor of Virginia from 2006 to 2010.
President Trump has nominated Mike Pence as his running mate. From New York CityPence was then governor of Indiana, Trump’s home state, and had previously represented the state in Congress for 12 years.
2012 Election
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) has criticized then-Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) for his support for the Democratic nomination. Vice Presidential Candidate Ryan, who lives in Norfolk, Virginia, served in the House of Representatives representing Wisconsin from 1999 to 2019.
2008 Election
Biden, who was then a senator from Delaware, was introduced by then-Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) at a rally in Springfield, Ill. Biden served in the U.S. Senate from 1973 to 2009.
Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) was quoted as saying that then-Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) As his running mate Palin served as governor of Alaska from 2006 to 2009 while in Dayton, Ohio.
2004 Election
Then-Senator John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) nominated then-Senator John Edwards (D-North Carolina) as his running mate. During the rally In Pittsburgh, Edwards served as a senator from North Carolina from 1999 to 2005.
2000 Election
Al Gore, who was then Vice President of Tennessee, said that Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman Become his running mate Lieberman was a senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013 and was pictured during an event in Nashville.
Then-Texas Governor George W. Bush said Dick Cheney Become his running mate At an event in Austin, Cheney represented Wyoming in the House of Representatives from 1979 to 1989 before serving as secretary of defense under former President George H.W. Bush.
1996 Election
Republican presidential candidate Senator Bob Dole of Kansas has chosen Jack Kemp as his running mate. From the home of the dollA native of Russell, Kansas, Kemp served in the House of Representatives from New York from 1971 to 1989 and served in the Cabinet of former President George H.W. Bush.
1992 Election
Then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton said Gore His Vice President Gore announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination at an event in Little Rock, Arkansas. At the time, he was a senator from Tennessee.
1988 Election
Democratic presidential candidate and Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis said that then-Senator Lloyd Bengtson Vice Presidential Candidate During his time in Boston, Bengtson served as a Texas senator from 1971 to 1993.
Then-Vice President George H.W. Bush appointed Dan Quayle Current Vice Presidential Candidate New Orleans. Quayle served as a senator from Indiana from 1981 to 1989.
1984 Election
Former Representative Geraldine Ferraro of New York, vice presidential running mate to Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale, Announced in California The meeting took place a few days before the 1984 Democratic National Convention. She was from New York, Mondale from Minnesota.
1980 Election
California’s Ronald Reagan said that Texas’ George H.W. Bush will join him He ran as the Republican presidential nominee at the Republican National Convention in Detroit in July 1980.
1976 Election
Lectures Press conference in New York In July 1976, Jimmy Carter announced that he had accepted the Democratic presidential nomination and had asked Mondale, then a senator from Minnesota, to serve as his running mate.
Reagan announced that he was running for president for a second time and that he had nominated then-Representative Richard Schweiker (R-PA) as his running mate. During the press conference In Los Angeles.
Miranda Nazzaro contributed reporting.
