Sending Vice President JD Vance to defend Trump's baffling remarks on inflation was the "worst possible strategy," a political expert said on Tuesday.
Paul Rieckhoff mocked the very idea while speaking on a CNN panel on "Erin Burnett OutFront." However, during Vance's appearance on "The View," he found himself defending Trump's "I love the inflation" comments and laughing off pushback.
"JD Vance is extremely unpopular," Rieckhoff said. "So sending out JD Vance to try to move people is pretty much the worst possible strategy."
Rieckhoff added that the "real bellwether" for how voters feel about inflation will be the general election in November, when Republicans "have to talk about inflation, they have to talk about the economy."
In particular, Independents are "not buying a lot of what Trump's pushing right now," Rieckhoff said, adding that they make up 47 percent of the country's voters.