Okla. Gov. Mary Fallin says she's not being vetted for Trump veep
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin says that though she's honored to have been mentioned as a potential Trump running mate, she is not being vetted.
"I have not been asked for specific documentation and I have not had a specific conversation with any of his staff about vice president," she told CNN's Jake Tapper in an interview on "State of the Union." "It's certainly a great honor to be mentioned with numerous other people across our nation. But I have not been asked to provide information."
Trump met with Fallin, who is Oklahoma's first woman governor, and other GOP governors in June. He had told Fox News in May that he was considering women to join him on the party's ticket, and had referred to Fallin as "a fabulous person."
But that same month, Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort suggested that it was unlikely that a woman or minority would be tapped for the job, telling the Huffington Post, "[T]hat would be viewed as pandering, I think."
Fallin told CNN she just hopes, "first and foremost, that in whoever they're looking at for vice president, that they would like at the qualifications, the skill sets, the knowledge, the history, conservative principles and values, that they would not judge a vice presidential candidate based upon their sex, man or woman."