A House Republican tells Axios that convicted felon former President Trump’s pick of eyeliner-wearing Ohio Senator JD Vance as his running mate was ill-advised, saying “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.”
Another said “On the whole, the feeling is: [Vance] doesn’t add much. And now with Kamala at the top, the capacity to have expanded the map a little bit… would have been much more beneficial.”
Axios also points out that “Vance is the least-liked non-incumbent VP nominee since at least 1980, and the first to register a net negative favorability rating, according to CNN data analyst Harry Enten,” and that he ran 20 points behind Gov Mike DeWine on the Ohio GOP ticket in 2022.