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Rupert Murdoch Lobbies Trump to Pick Doug Burgum for VP — And Not J.D. Vance

The retired media mogul has been calling Trump multiple times a day, a source close to the former president told NOTUS.

Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch speaks at the Herman Kahn Award Gala in New York. Mary Altaffer/AP

Rupert Murdoch has launched a full-scale lobbying effort to get Donald Trump to pick North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum for vice president, sources told NOTUS. And if Trump won’t pick Burgum, these sources said, Murdoch apparently has one last request: At least don’t pick Sen. J.D. Vance.

Sources told NOTUS Friday that Murdoch has been pushing for Burgum — and against Vance — for quite some time now, both over the phone and by dispatching surrogates to Trump in person.

A source close to Trump told NOTUS that Murdoch has been regularly calling the former president — often multiple times a day — to urge him to choose Burgum.