Cross South Dakota Sen. John Thune off any speculative list of who is turning over documents to John McCain's team.
"If I'm getting vetted, I don't know about it," Thune told me in a brief interview earlier this week.
Thune, an instant star in Republican circles after he beat longtime Democratic leader Tom Daschle in 2004, already has said he doesn't expect to be McCain's salutatorian selection.
He said there are plenty of other candidates who might put a particular state in play or "don't have the taint of Washington hanging over them."
"If I'm getting vetted, I don't know about it," Thune told me in a brief interview earlier this week.
Thune, an instant star in Republican circles after he beat longtime Democratic leader Tom Daschle in 2004, already has said he doesn't expect to be McCain's salutatorian selection.
He said there are plenty of other candidates who might put a particular state in play or "don't have the taint of Washington hanging over them."
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