Former President Donald Trump has reportedly added Sen. Tom Cotton to his short list of potential running mates.

Sources close to Mr. Trump say Mr. Cotton, Arkansas Republican, is rising among the ranks for the role, according to a report Friday by The New York Times.

The three anonymous sources said the former president likes Mr. Cotton’s way of communicating policies to the media, his Army experience and his Harvard College education.

Mr. Cotton has not let on whether he knows he’s on the list. He said Monday that he suspects “only Donald Trump knows who is really on his short list.”

“When we do talk, we talk about what it’s going to take to win this election in November — to elect President Trump to another term in the White House and elect a Republican Congress, so we can begin to repair the damage that Joe Biden’s presidency has inflicted on this country,” he said.

Mr. Cotton joins three other senators who are said to be on the short list: Marco Rubio of Florida, Tim Scott of South Carolina and J.D. Vance of Ohio. Also on the short list is former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York and Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, among others.

Mr. Trump has said before that fromer South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is not under consideration for vice president, even after she said she would vote for him last week.

Mr. Trump might not make his decision public before the Republican National Convention in July.

• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.