I mean, I think about VP picks of GOPS going back:
Reagan picks Bush - Good politics, but put a political rival as your successor
Bush picks Quayle - clearly not a great pick, but didn’t matter at the time, road a wave to be #3 Reagan term
Dole picks Kemp - great energy and speaker, but Dole himself was dead man walking against Clinton, so it didn’t matter, the entire ticket needed to be different
W picks Cheney - governing pick, but not going to help with voters and Cheney is the father of neocon politics
McCain picks Palin - She was brought to the national stage too soon, the ticket itself was just not equipped to go out against Obama, not a good pick
Romney picks Ryan - Like, why double down on yourself so much? It was a bad choice imo and amplified Romney’s own problems.
Trump picks Pence - Good pick for religious voters/GOPers iffy on Trump, but bad pick once he got in the White House after his upset win, Pence eying his job and leaking day one.
Trump picks JD - Trump can only serve one term here, so he needs the future. Well spoken man, likable. Amazing story. Good pick.
Trump was weak with religious conservatives in '16 so it was a good pick.
There’s a theory that you never pick a VP that outshines you. Palin outshined McLame and they didn’t get along. Hard for Odumbo to pick someone worse than him but he managed it. Trump picking Vance shows Trump can’t be outshined and Vance will make a very good successor, unlike H W Bush to Reagan.