Some Republican lawmakers worry that Vance won’t help Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris.

Some Republicans are starting to seriously regret Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance.

It’s been only one week since Vance was nominated at the Republican National Convention, and already his own party members are expressing severe doubts about Trump’s pick. The former president’s allies have acknowledged that nominating Vance was the product of Trump’s absolute certainty that he would be able to defeat Joe Biden in November. While Vance wouldn’t do much for swing voters or independents, he would likely shore up support among Trump’s base.

But ever since Biden passed the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s new presumptive nominee, Republicans have begun to sour on Vance.

“The road got a lot harder. He was the only pick that wasn’t the safe pick. And I think everyone has now realized that,” one House Republican told Axios Thursday, under the condition of anonymity.

Another House Republican told Axios that Vance “doesn’t add much.”

  • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    5 months ago

    hilarious that vance wrote an entire book blaming poor mountain people for causing their own problems and not bootstraps-ing themselves out of despair (like he did, naturally), and is now saying that biden’s america is 100% to blame for those exact same problems

    not to mention all the gigabytes of trash he’s talked about trump, whose asshole vance is now slurping with the gusto of a dog in a steak factory

    • JayleneSlide@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      whose asshole vance is now slurping with the gusto of a dog in a steak factory

      😆 It’s only 0600 here. I’m gonna call it a day after reading that so that I can end on a high note.

  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    "Vance does worse in his home region at -16 points than he does in the average of all polls… So the people who know him best, the region that knows him best, they like him even less than America likes him.”

    — Polling analyst Harry Enten, on CNN

    Plus, betting markets have opened up on if he’ll be retained on the ticket.

    • collapse_already@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I like him better than I like Trump, but then I want them to lose. I would vote for the corpse of Richard Nixon before I considered voting for either of them.

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
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      5 months ago

      Plus, betting markets have opened up on if he’ll be retained on the ticket.

      I’m not a betting man but I pretty much came to the comments to see if anyone else thought this too. “We” showed it’s “ok” to drop out this close to the election so I 100% believe they’re going to do the same with him and they can just have fox news say “the Democrats already did it so we’re doing it to get back at them!” because if there’s one thing maga loves more than beating up on (insert non cis/white/male people) it’s revenge.

      • xantoxis@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Actually makes me wonder whether they’ll try to pressure Trump to quit, for these same reasons.

        I mean, he definitely won’t quit, but they might try.

  • Sarothazrom@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Really feels like Vance is being set up as the fall guy to blame when trump loses.

    “If he had just picked someone else as VP, he would’ve won!” -conservatives in five months

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Really feels like Vance is being set up as the fall guy to blame when trump loses.

      He was the bag man for Cryptobros. Trump puts him on the ticket and the money flows into the Trump campaign.

      Now it’s looking like a raw deal, as Trump has to spend all that new money defending his hideous little troll of a VP.

      “If he had just picked someone else as VP, he would’ve won!” -conservatives in five months

      Missed a perfectly good opportunity to run a horny VP like Kristi Noem or Laura Boebert or Hope Hicks.

      Still would have lost, but at least we wouldn’t need Vance’s mug all over the TV.

  • Makeitstop@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I mean, his last VP pick had lightning powers. This one fucks couches. That’s a hell of a downgrade.

    • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      5 months ago

      i adore that he will live out the rest of his days being known as j.d. the couch fucking mascara muffin man vance

        • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          5 months ago

          your cause is noble, but the outrage over mascara man vance bashing is misguided. “punching down” is insulting race, sexuality, gender, disability, and any other thing that no one chooses for themselves*. makeup is 100% a choice, for everyone. in vance’s example it’s a ridiculous choice, given the requisite strictly defined GOP persona of the “manly man,” which obviously doesn’t involve men wearing makeup. so vance will be mocked for it.

          where’s the outrage over making fun of trump’s orange spray tan? guliani’s hair dye leaking forehead?

          and if you’re going to bring “gendered insult” into the conversation, then exactly who is arguing under the flawed premise that mascara is just for women, if not the person calling the insult gendered?

          don’t worry, i make fun of many, many choices people make, from cartoonishly huge pickup trucks, to cargo shorts

          *edit: apparently “punching down” is generally defined to mean attacking people ‘less powerful’ than yourself. i’m still including unchosen circumstances in my usage