Residency Question Tripped Up Marco Rubio

Punchbowl News: “We’re told by sources close to both Rubio and Trump that the two camps were in contact over the last 10 days in particular over how to resolve the residency issues that Rubio would pose for the GOP ticket. Candidates on the same ticket must reside in different states, so Rubio would have had to move out of Florida.”

“The conversations ‘revolved around whether both sides could feel 100% confident in the legal grounds on the residency question,’ said one of the sources, ‘because nobody was interested in a protracted legal battle after the election that hinged on this question.’”

“That doesn’t mean that Trump would’ve otherwise chosen Rubio. But it was clear that the residency issue was a problem.”