The Republican candidate will be selected at the Republican convention. It will be held during the week of August 27, 2012, in Tampa, Florida.
He has not yet been chosen - the convention has not yet taken place. He merely announced his intention to run as a candidate.
Mitt Romney is the Republican candidate running for president in 2012.
The candidate for vice-president is nominated at the same national convention that nominates the presidential candidate.
The Republican presidential candidate did poorly in the 1856 US presidential elections. John Fremont, the candidate was too radical for most Americans. Also, the party was simply too new to have an impact.
Thomas E. Dewey was the republican candidate in 1944
Republican Presidential Candidate in 1940 .
Abraham Lincoln.
The candidate for vice-president is nominated at the same national convention that nominates the presidential candidate.
The VP candidate is chosen soon after the presidential nomination is made.
Attract more voters for the presidential candidate
Thomas Jefferson