When asked if he was being vetted to be Donald Trump's running mate on the Republican ticket Sunday, Newt Gingrich said that Trump wouldn't even think about making his decision until two days before the party's convention next month.
Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace sounded shocked.
"Are you serious?" he asked.
"I think Donald Trump does not want to make a decision until the convention," Gingrich said. "I think that he is a very decisive person and in case of a few of us—I'm an example. There's not much vetting to do. I mean, you guys have been all over me for a decade."
Before this, Wallace questioned Gingrich about whether he had started the vetting process for this position.
"All right," Wallace said. "Every time you are here we play the running mate game and you always say, ‘I'm better than that’ and ‘No, I'm not.’ Here is my question this time. Are you being vetted?"
Gingrich cut him off to say he was not.
"No," he said. "Nobody has called me. Nobody has said, ‘Would you like to be?’ Nobody said, ‘Would you be willing to be considered?’ Nobody said anything."
Wallace pointed out that there are only three weeks until the convention and the announcement of who Trump chooses to be his running mate.
This comes in light of Trump previously saying that Gingrich is "absolutely" on his short list for the spot. Gingrich has been critical at times but largely supported Trump's surprising surge to the Republican nomination.