'Not playing well in Mar-a-Lago': Analyst suggests Trump unhappy with J.D. Vance
J.D. Vance's past comments about women and children might be giving Donald Trump second thoughts about choosing the senator as his running mate.
The Ohio Republican has drawn widespread criticism for his 2021 remarks dismissing Kamala Harris and other prominent Democrats as "childless cat ladies," and because he argued that same year that parents should be given additional voting power, and political commentator Michael Smerconish told CNN the former president and his allies must be unhappy about the uproar.
"I think it's not playing well in Mar-a-Lago," Smerconish said. "I don't know how it's playing in middle America. I assume not well, but I'm sure it's not playing well in Mar a-Lago because the last thing that former President Trump wants is to have J.D. Vance become a drag on the ticket when he's got other issues that he's got to deal with."
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Trump selected the first-term senator as his running mate just days before President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign and threw his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris, and Smerconish said that Vance's stumbles prevented the ex-president from landing on an effective line of attack against his new opponent.
"There's also a tone question here that this brings to my mind in terms of how does the Trump campaign, and I think they're wrestling with this, and so far coming to the wrong answer, how do they deal with Vice President Kamala Harris?" Smerconish said. "What are they going to say about her, in my view, to say that she's a progressive from San Francisco and to regard her as the most liberal member of the United States Senate? That's all appropriate, that's all debatable, that's all fair game. To talk about her as a DEI hire and to say anything that smacks of misogyny or racism, I think he's going to have enormous blowback."
"So they've got to get their act together and decide now how they're going to handle her, and what I'm seeing in his Truth Social responses so far, meaning (former) President Trump, tells me he's taking the wrong approach," Smerconish added. "He should have been more dignified, he should have come out of that convention as the victim that he was of an assassination attempt and continued to try and maintain that level of dignity."
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