Trump is ‘considering picking Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik as his running mate in 2024’

Donald Trump and his allies are looking at New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik as a potential running mate in the event the former president mounts another re-election bid in 2024, it was reported Wednesday.

It comes amid reports that his former vice president, Mike Pence, could be forging ahead with his own White House bid whether Trump runs or not. 

Newsmax owner Chris Ruddy, a friend of the former president’s, said Trump ‘thinks very highly’ of Stefanik.

‘She has been talked about in circles close to him as a potential vice presidential,’ Ruddy told CNN.

‘And there’s a feeling among a lot of people on the Republican side that they need to have a woman on the ticket this time.’

Stefanik, who represents the Empire State’s northernmost Congressional district, saw her national GOP…