Sanford: Blackburn is on Trump’s VP list, but is the conservative stalwart extreme enough?
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to examine Texas's abortion law, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Tom Williams/Pool via AP)
Otis Sanford
Otis Sanford is a political columnist, author and professor emeritus in Journalism and Strategic Media at the University of Memphis.
News outlets continue to lend credence to Donald Trump’s flirtation with seeking a second term in 2024.
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