Former President Donald Trump with vice presidential nominee JD Vance during the second day of the Republican National Convention Photo: Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK
Now, out MSNBC host Rachel Maddow says that that made Trump’s choice of Vance backfire on him.
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Trump wanted Vance “for governing, not campaigning,” Maddow argued last night. “They picked J.D. Vance because they thought they had this election in the bag, and Joe Biden did this today, and now it is an absolutely different ball game.”
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Maddow said that Vance brings nothing of value to the GOP ticket. Maddow said that Trump was “going to win Ohio anyway,” and often a running mate is picked to help secure a swing state. Vance also doesn’t represent a demographic that Trump may have a hard time getting to the polls, like Mike Pence did with white evangelicals.
And Vance is not more moderate than Trump, which could appeal to centrists; in fact, on several key issues like abortion, he’s more conservative.
“J.D. Vance on abortion is the worst-case scenario you would invent for a barroom argument, for an in arguendo discussion with your friends about how bad it could possibly be,” Maddow said.
“They picked J.D. Vance because they thought they had this election in the bag. And then Joe Biden did this today and now it is an absolutely different ball game.”
“J.D. Vance and Donald Trump are going to lose in November and Donald Trump is going to regret picking J.D. Vance as his running mate now that he’s up against Kamala Harris.”
Later on the same network, Maddow declared that “the old era is over and the new era is here. It is go time.”
“The old man in the race now is Donald Trump, 78 years old and only occasionally coherent, with a record as president that is viewed by historians as the worst in the history of the country, a tenure that ended in violence, and he refuses to promise that there won’t be more violence to come from his supporters, he is the old man in the race by a mile.”
Maddow: Trump’s remarkable recent run of political good luck came to an end with a crash. The old man in the race now is Donald Trump, 78 years old and only occasionally coherent, with a record as president that is viewed by historians as the worst in history.. pic.twitter.com/Aekr5RKzKF
