Ex-president adds another name to the shortlist and praises one of the favorites Tim Scott

Trump added another name to his growing list of VP candidates in Texas
Abbott showed Trump around the fortified area around Eagle Pass on Thursday
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Donald Trump has revealed Texas Governor Greg Abbott is ‘absolutely’ on his shortlist of potential running mates after their trip to the border on Thursday.

The Republican presidential frontrunner’s list of possible vice president’s is growing – with Senator Tim Scott, Ben Carson, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem and Rep. Elise Stefanik in the frame.

Others believed to be in the frame after Vivek Ramaswamy, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Rep. Byron Donalds and Trump’s former press secretary-turned Governor of Arkansas Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

But the former president, 77, added another name to the list overnight as he heads full steam to a general election rematch with President Joe Biden in November.

‘Absolutely, he is,’ Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity of Abbott in an interview with him near Eagle Pass.

Trump then praised Scott, considered one of the favorites to be picked, and wouldn’t reveal if there were any other candidates he was considered.

‘Tim, for himself, he was fine. He did OK. I mean, he was OK as a candidate, but he didn’t want to talk about himself. He’s a very good man,” Trump said. “For me, he’s unbelievable. He’s a surrogate

Earlier on Thursday, Abbott showed his VP credentials by blasting Joe Biden for ‘endangering America by ‘not doing his job’ on the border.

Abbott guided Trump along the edge of the Rio Grande and showed him what Texas is doing to stop illegal immigrants crossing.

The Republican governor showed Trump how shipping containers topped with concertina wire are being used as barriers.

And he took him to a spot where the body of a drowned illegal migrant was brought ashore earlier this week.

Abbott also laid out plans to build an 80-acre base for the Texas National Guard.

He also vowed to continue his policy of sending illegal migrants to Democrat ‘sanctuary’ cities on buses.

It came as Biden visited the border city of Brownsville, Texas, about 324 miles from where Abbot appeared with Trump, but still in his state.

Abbott said: ‘The United States of America is being invaded. Joe Biden is not doing his job.

‘I don’t think he (Biden) is on the border itself right now. He’s in some sanitized location in the Brownsville area, not seeing the razor wire that Texas has put up around Brownsville.’

The governor added: ‘And he announced that he was going to Brownsville after it was already known that President Trump was coming to the state of Texas.

‘It just goes to show that Biden does not care about either Texas or the border and what’s going on. As a result you see a disaster.’

Abbott said America is dealing with ‘more deadly consequences than we have in our entire lifetime because of Joe Biden’s policies on the border’ and ‘it did not have to be this way.

‘All Joe Biden had to do to secure the border was to keep in place what President Trump put in place in the first place,’ he said.