Mitt Romney is scheduled to name his vice presidential running mate on Saturday for November 2012 US national election and sources said, Romney has picked Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan to be his running mate.
According to a statement the campaign released late Friday, the presumptive Republican nominee will announce his running mate at an 8:45am rally on the USS Wisconsin--the first stop of his four-day bus tour of key battleground states.
according to a Republican with knowledge of the development informed press that they will appear together Saturday in Norfolk, Va. In the final hours before Romney's team issued the statement, all signs seemed to point to Ryan, the seven-term Wisconsin congressman whose nomination could help assuage the conservative base of the party that has been reluctant to fully embrace Romney.
In recent days, conservative pundits have been urging Romney to choose Ryan in large part because of his authorship of a House-backed budget plan that seeks to curb overall entitlement spending and changes Medicaid into a voucher-like system to save costs.
On Thursday, Romney fueled the buzz around Ryan, telling NBC that he wants a vice president with “a vision for the country, that adds something to the political discourse about the direction of the country.”