How Trump's top VP hopefuls have criticized him in the past

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Asked about his 2016 remarks about Trump during an appearance on ABC News' "This Week" in March, Rubio explained: "It was a campaign.
56% : Trump is expected to soon share who he has selected as his running mate.
56% : His senior adviser Jason Miller said Monday that Trump could announce his choice "any time this week" as the Republican National Convention approaches on July 15.
56% : "But the relationship between the two would eventually get better as Trump relied on the Florida senator during his presidency, turning to him on policies relating to Latin America.
55% : Asked why, he said, "I just think that it's important that you're judged by the company you keep."But following the suspension of his presidential campaign, Burgum endorsed Trump in the 2024 GOP primary and has become one of his biggest campaign surrogates.
36% : In August 2016, he told ABC News that he didn't see Trump "offering many solutions.
35% : In his concession speech, Rubio made a veiled swipe at Trump.
25% : "In a 2016 interview with NPR, Vance even suggested that he might vote for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton if he believed that Trump had a chance of winning the election.
24% : However, Rubio would later drop out of the GOP primary after Trump beat him in his home state of Florida.
22% : Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance -- who rose to prominence through his book "Hillbilly Elegy" -- has been the most critical of Trump in the past.
15% : "But, you know, I think there's a chance, if I feel like Trump has a really good chance of winning, that I might have to hold my nose and vote for Hillary Clinton.
13% : Trump called Rubio "little Marco," and Rubio called Trump a "con artist" and said that he has "small hands.
10% : Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, another person among Trump's possible running mates, has been a vocal critic of Trump in the past.
9% : "However, in 2021, following the launch of his Senate campaign, Vance apologized for his past criticisms of Trump.

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