Whakaoti i te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te whakanui i te whakapae, i tono a McCain ki a Jindal, te Kawana a Charlie Crist o Florida, te Kawana a Tim Pawlenty o Minnesota me nga hoa whawhai o mua a McCain a Mitt Romney me Mike Huckabee ki te hui ki te kaainga o McCain i Arizona i te Mei 23, 2008, e ai ki tetahi Republican e mohio ana ki te whakatau; Romney, Huckabee, me Pawlenty, i tino mohio katoa ki a McCain, i whakahekehia na te mea i mua i nga whakaritenga. Tērā pea i rerekē te take o te hui, pērā i te whakaaro ki a Jindal mō te whai wāhitanga ki te kōrero i te Rūnanga ā-Motu o te Rōpū Reipa i te tau 2008, i runga i te āhua ōrite ki a Barack Obama i te Rūnanga ā-Motu o te Rōpū Reipa o Amerika.
2004 Democratic National Convention, e whakapakari ana i tētahi wāhi mō ia i roto i te rōpū, ā, e whakatuwhera ana i te kuwaha mō tētahi whakataetae ā muri ake nei mō te perehitini. I whakaohohia te whakapae i te 21 o Hōngongoi, 2008, e kii ana kei te haere ohorere a McCain ki Louisiana ki te korero ano ki a Jindal me te mea kei te rite a McCain ki te whakaingoa i tana hoa whakahaere i roto i te wiki. Heoi, i te Hōngongoi 23, 2008, i kii a Jindal kaore ia e waiho hei kaitono perehitini mo te perehitini mo te tau 2008. I tāpiri atu a Jindal, "kāore ia i kōrero ki te kaumatua [McCain] mō te tūru perehitini, i āna whakaaro rānei mō te kōwhiri i te perehitini tuarua". I te mutunga, i te 29 o Akuhata 2008, i whiriwhiria e McCain a Gov. Ko Sarah Palin o Alaska hei hoa whakahaere. Ahakoa i whakawhiwhia a Jindal ki tetahi waahi korero i te huihuinga a te roopu, kaore ia i whakawhiwhia ki te korero matua. I te wa o te kaupapa perehitini, i whakamoemiti a Jindal mo nga Senators McCain me Obama, a i kii ko nga mea pai i whakawhiwhia ki te iwi.