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Some Republicans are starting to seriously regret Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance.

It’s been only one week since Vance was nominated at the Republican National Convention, and already his own party members are expressing severe doubts about Trump’s pick. The former president’s allies have acknowledged that nominating Vance was the product of Trump’s absolute certainty that he would be able to defeat Joe Biden in November. While Vance wouldn’t do much for swing voters or independents, he would likely shore up support among Trump’s base.

But ever since Biden passed the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s new presumptive nominee, Republicans have begun to sour on Vance.

“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,” one House Republican told Axios Thursday, under the condition of anonymity.

Another House Republican told Axios that Vance “doesn’t add much.”

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

hilarious that vance wrote an entire book blaming poor mountain people for causing their own problems and not bootstraps-ing themselves out of despair (like he did, naturally), and is now saying that biden's america is 100% to blame for those exact same problems

not to mention all the gigabytes of trash he's talked about trump, whose asshole vance is now slurping with the gusto of a dog in a steak factory

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

whose asshole vance is now slurping with the gusto of a dog in a steak factory

😆 It's only 0600 here. I'm gonna call it a day after reading that so that I can end on a high note.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

James Donald Bowman is his birth name. Tired of this ‘woke’ changing names agenda!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

So where does the Vance part come in? Sounds like he wants to be an edgy pop guitar solo artist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait.. so the Republican ticket is James Donald and Donald John? Those fucking nerds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What if we combine them? James Donald John TRANce. Think that’ll bring out more GOP voters?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'm up for combining them, but only if it's in some sort of weird human-centipede situation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

"Vance does worse in his home region at -16 points than he does in the average of all polls… So the people who know him best, the region that knows him best, they like him even less than America likes him.”

— Polling analyst Harry Enten, on CNN

Plus, betting markets have opened up on if he'll be retained on the ticket.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Noooo we spent so much time and money messaging against him! That’s not fair!111!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Memers should be reimbursed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So how many Scaramucci's to each Vance?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

2 Trusses tops

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I like him better than I like Trump, but then I want them to lose. I would vote for the corpse of Richard Nixon before I considered voting for either of them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Plus, betting markets have opened up on if he’ll be retained on the ticket.

I'm not a betting man but I pretty much came to the comments to see if anyone else thought this too. "We" showed it's "ok" to drop out this close to the election so I 100% believe they're going to do the same with him and they can just have fox news say "the Democrats already did it so we're doing it to get back at them!" because if there's one thing maga loves more than beating up on (insert non cis/white/male people) it's revenge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Actually makes me wonder whether they'll try to pressure Trump to quit, for these same reasons.

I mean, he definitely won't quit, but they might try.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Let's not jump to conclusions until we get the couche's side of the story.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I guess I'm dumb or ignorant, but what's the reference here?

Edit: nevermind, explained further down the thread

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ahem, they ended up pulling that article... presumably because he actually did have sex with a couch.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They pulled it because they can't actually know if he did or didn't. Good to see some journalistic integrity! Lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Can't prove a negative!

Many people are saying that JD did NOT fuck that couch. But then, many people are asking....I don't know, were you THERE?

🤣

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Would that cushion the blow?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

So far, soooo good.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, his last VP pick had lightning powers. This one fucks couches. That's a hell of a downgrade.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

lightning powers? I'm ootl

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

You've never heard of Mike "Like the cock? Get the shock!" Pence?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Really feels like Vance is being set up as the fall guy to blame when trump loses.

"If he had just picked someone else as VP, he would've won!" -conservatives in five months

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Really feels like Vance is being set up as the fall guy to blame when trump loses.

He was the bag man for Cryptobros. Trump puts him on the ticket and the money flows into the Trump campaign.

Now it's looking like a raw deal, as Trump has to spend all that new money defending his hideous little troll of a VP.

“If he had just picked someone else as VP, he would’ve won!” -conservatives in five months

Missed a perfectly good opportunity to run a horny VP like Kristi Noem or Laura Boebert or Hope Hicks.

Still would have lost, but at least we wouldn't need Vance's mug all over the TV.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Poor JD, his grandma really did hate him for being a burdensome piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You know, Vance was picked on July 15, and Joe dropped out on July 21. Is it possible that the Dems intentionally held off on the news that Joe would be dropping out so that the Reps would fumble the bag this hard on their VP pick? Or is it more likely that Donald made the mistake of listening to his incredibly stupid sons when they told him to go with Vance?