Posted on 07/26/2024 4:42:51 PM PDT by RandFan
A number of House Republicans are privately bashing former President Trump’s selection of Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate, warning that the pick will not help — and could hurt — the party’s chances of winning in November.
The Republicans, speaking to The Hill on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive topic, raised concerns about Vance’s foreign policy positions, lack of experience and inability to expand the Republican coalition beyond Trump’s base.
There are, to be sure, plenty of Vance supporters in the House GOP conference, particularly hard-line conservatives — including those in the House Freedom Caucus — who favor the populist, America First perspective that the vice presidential nominee espouses. And the Trump campaign is vigorously defending the pick.
But Republicans who spoke to The Hill — including veteran lawmakers, moderates and Reagan-styled conservatives who support a muscular foreign policy — said a much larger number of their colleagues harbor doubts about Vance.
“He was the worst choice of all the options. It was so bad I didn’t even think it was possible,” one House Republican said. “Anti-Ukraine, more of a populist. He adds nothing to the Trump ticket. He energizes the same people that love Trump.”
“I think if you were to ask many people around this building, 9 out of 10 on our side would say he’s the wrong pick,” a second House Republican said. “He’s the only person who can do serious damage.”
A third House Republican — who said “there is major dissension” to Vance in the conference — argued that if Trump falls short to Vice President Harris in November, Trump’s vice presidential selection will be to blame.
“The prevailing sentiment is if Trump loses, [it’s] because of this pick,” the lawmaker said. “It doesn’t help.”
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Romney....McCarthy....Collins...
STFU. Never concede anything to the leftist scum ruining this country.
BINGO! OR NONE!
This. Is. Awesome.
Someone sent me a link today about Vance explaining his “Cat Lady” comments from 2022, and I started to steam.
For a split second, I knew-I JUST KNEW the video was going to show Vance pulling back, apologizing, and backing down.
But in the time it took me to register the subject of the URL and then click on the link and actually see the video (which is just a few seconds) I knew immediately my involuntary knee-jerk flash was not right.
I realized he wouldn’t back down. He was a Marine. He is a Conservative. And he is pretty bright, that is clear.
As surely as I had just felt an instant conviction of betrayal by a weak kneed Republican as had happened so often in the past, I realized with that instant realization in diametrical opposition that would not be the case.
And it didn’t go away in a flash either.
When Megyn Kelly asked him about it and he gave a calm, conviction-based rational description I was not in the least bit surprised how he approached it and where he stood. That was great.
Additionally, I was absolutely thrilled and delighted to realize my initial reservation way so wrong, and that my human barometer, which I sometimes cannot explain, was so functionally capable in being able to calibrate it and feed the correction it back to me in the blink of an eye.
I am one of those people who occasionally get a feeling when I meet someone, good or bad, and it sticks in the total absence of information or rationality. It is just a gut feeling.
And it is relatively reliable, after more information comes in.
So, yes. Many, many times in my life I have doubted that feeling, and felt it had to be wrong. But in the end, it was almost always proved correct. It was nice to see it in this case, register and self-adjust, right in front of my unseeing eyes. Getting older, you begin to wonder when that computer will become more...sluggish...:)
I’ve never seen such fooferaw over a VP pick. 😏
I’ve got my issues with Vance, but they are complaining about his strong points!
I agree.
I son’t want a smiling Dan Quayle, a fairy Mike Pence as my Veep.
Meanwhile, Joe delivers a full diaper for Barry, who can complain about that?
Only a stuck pig squeals. The RINOS have been doing a lot of squealing ever since Trump chose JD Vance for VP.
How inconsiderate of Egg McMuffin after JD voted for him!
So says someone hiding behind the moniker “Fledermaus.” Ironic.
HE’s RIGHT for MOST American voters.
Those who choose to not vote for him just haven’t realized their error yet
VP picks never add votes imo. They can only subtract them.
There were other choices.
Vance opens his mouth and then ends up having to walk it back.
I doubt if some other choices would be having to do that right now.
Do you?
I could well be wrong, but it seems that the complainers are saying that Vance is just too aligned with Trump. Trump’s biggest weakness in his term was he had to ‘rely on the kindness of Republican strangers’ to fill his government. And we all see how that worked out for him.
The four years between his first and we hope his second term is that he has been able to learn where people in the party stand in regards to the idea of ‘draining the swamp’ and ‘making America great again’.
It may well turn out that not winning in 2020 was in fact a blessing. He has a much better grasp now, of where the people around him really stand. Who’s loyal and who was just along for the power ride.
“concur…. Vance needs to step it up.. so far his headlines/words are bringing Trump down..”
You’re falling for the MSM slander campaign.
They’re butthurt that he’s not a RINO.
No names were mentioned, but they are most likely the usual suspects.
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