2008 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection

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This article lists potential candidates for the Republican nomination for Vice President of the United States in the 2008 election. On March 4, 2008, Senator John McCain of Arizona won the 2008 Republican nomination for President of the United States, and became the presumptive nominee.

McCain held an event with Alaska governor Sarah Palin, revealing her as his vice-presidential running mate on August 29, 2008 (the date coinciding both with McCain's 72nd birthday and the Palins' 20th wedding anniversary^[1][2]), at the Ervin J. Nutter Center in Dayton, Ohio, the day after Barack Obama's acceptance speech.^[3] The McCain–Palin ticket ultimately lost in the general election to the Obama–Biden ticket. John McCain later in life came to regret the pick.^[4]