Maybe you are looking for the phrase,"balancing the ticket' which means to pick a VP candidate from a different geographical section or a different faction within the party.
if there is a tie, then the house of representatives chooses te president and the senate chooses the vice-president.
The U.S. Senate
The Senate chooses the Vice President in the case of a tie.
Vice President of the United States
If no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes, the Twelfth Amendment of the United States Constitution provides that the U.S. House of Representatives will select the president, with each of the fifty state delegations casting one vote, and the U.S. Senate will select the vice-president.
Originally, from 1789 until 1800, there were not separate elections for President and Vice President. Each elector cast two votes, and whoever had the second-highest number of votes was the Vice President.
We the ppl.We vote on who should be president of the U.S. And as for the vice presidents I think the president that we vote on decides who would be the vice president.
The first government of the United States was established under?
president and vice president
If no candidate for vice-president gets a majority of electoral votes, the Senate elects the vice-president from the among the two highest in list of people getting votes from the electors. One would expect that they would chose the running mate of the new president, but they are not required to do so.
Electoral College.
We the ppl.We vote on who should be president of the U.S. And as for the vice presidents I think the president that we vote on decides who would be the vice president.