Politics | John McCain McCain to Name VP Aug. 29 Will announce pick day after Dem Convention By Elizabeth Wolff Posted Aug 19, 2008 8:00 AM CDT Copied Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, speaks at the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention in Orlando, Fla., yesterday. (AP Photo/John Raoux) John McCain will name his VP running mate at a huge Ohio rally on Aug. 29—the senator’s 72nd birthday and a day after the Democratic convention, Politico reports. McCain won’t finalize his choice—widely considered by GOP experts to be Mitt Romney or Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty—until Obama announces his own running mate. “McCain views this as the one decision that he has total, utter, nonnegotiable control over,” one campaign official says. Another says the announcement early next Friday is planned to detract from the predictable Obama bounce after the Dem convention. “You’re going to own the weekend,” a staffer tells Politico. Read These Next Isolated tribe members show up in an unexpected place. Trump just used a spending maneuver last seen nearly 50 years ago. A government watchdog is warning the FAA about meteorologists. Naomi Osaki is fully on Taylor Townsend's side in this spat. Get breaking news in your inbox. What you need to know, as soon as we know it. Sign up Report an error