Steve Bannon thinks Donald Trump will shrug off the growing hype around Tucker Carlson and pick a woman as his running mate for the 2024 presidential election.
Speculation is swirling about who might join the Republican frontrunner's ticket.
And Trump, who likes to keep the world guessing, has hinted that the former Fox News star could be the man for the job.
But Bannon, who was chief executive of Trump's 2016 campaign, played down the idea on Friday evening when he appeared on Sean Spicer's show.
'Now, if you ask if he was a likely candidate now ... I don't think so,' he said. 'My thinking is very structured that I believe President Trump will have a female vice president.'