Like it or not, the “Veepstakes” are here. With the Republican nomination more or less in his grasp, Donald Trump and his advisers are already mulling over who to pick as his running mate—in January, almost a year before the election. Trump was even talking about it before the Iowa caucuses. “I mean, I know who it’s going to be,” he said during a Fox News town hall on January 10, without going into much detail. Trump gave Bret Baier some more color, in typical Trump circuitous and elliptical locution, a few weeks later in New Hampshire, suggesting he’s close to making up his mind. “The person that I think I like is a very good person, a pretty standard. I think people won’t be that surprised, but I would say there’s probably a 25 percent chance that would be that person.”