Rep. Marsha Blackburn said she is speaking at the Republican convention, but declined to comment on VP speculation. | AP Photo Blackburn dodges Trump VP buzz But the Republican congresswoman confirms she'll speak at the GOP convention.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said she will speak at the Republican convention in Cleveland this month, but declined to comment on growing buzz that she's being vetted for vice president.

“I am a very unlikely candidate,” Blackburn said when asked Thursday whether she’s submitted documents to Donald Trump's campaign for vetting.


She repeated, “I am a very unlikely candidate, we all know that. I am a conservative from a red state. I am a very unlikely candidate.”

Blackburn would, indeed, be an unconventional candidate. She is not from a swing state, representing a conservative western Tennessee district between Memphis and Nashville.

Blackburn, 64, was first elected to the House in 2002. She is an outspoken opponent of abortion rights, and has frequently advised GOP leadership on the issue.

She attended a Thursday morning meeting with Trump at the Capitol Hill Club, and said Trump did a "very good job" during his first confab with the House GOP.

“We have to get the country back on the right track,” Blackburn said. “[Trump] is going to be out there working hard until the end and he's putting a lot of energy (into) issues of national security, jobs and economics."