Republicans Are Becoming Unhinged Over JD Vance

Donald Trump thought he picked a winner when he selected Senator JD Vance as his running mate, but Republicans disagree with his choice. Vance has had a rough start to his campaign, and now many in the GOP are second-guessing Trump’s decision. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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Donald Trump thought he could pick a winner when he selected Senator JD Vance as his running mate. But Republicans, they disagree with his choice. Vance has had a rough start to his campaign and now many in the GOP are second guessing decision making by Trump. Well, it's never, if it really got that bad, you know what? He just gets another vp. It's not like there's this big investment into the future of JD Vance. But, I think when I'm reading about JD Vance and the people that are critical of him, you know where most of it comes from is the war pimps. The war whores, the Republican war whores hate this guy because he has a tendency to talk about isolationism. He would shut down Ukraine, he'd be glad to shut down Ukraine in a second. He's hugely anti-war. And so the missile industry, the defense industry hates a guy like this and that's where a lot of this is being generated.

See, I think for me, it's JD Vance, his past comments, not just about Donald Trump, which he's clumsily tried to defend and say, well, I bought into the media. No, you cashed in on it.

I didn't mean to say that.

Yeah. But, it's the comments about women that are giving the Republican so many headaches right now, the childless cat ladies, when you're talking about the demographic where your ticket was already suffering the most. And in these polls that we see where you've got these swing state voters, if women flip away from Trump, just a small percentage of them, they lose. And he is not attracting anybody new right now.

Why would he make statements like, liberal cat lady women? I mean, where does that, in his mind, where does that move him? Doesn't that just, the MAGA group, he's going to shore up the MAGA voters. The question is, is he there to incite them? Is he there to excite 'em? Is he there to get him to the polls? Is he there to be another mouthpiece for Trump? Because that's what he's become. So what do you do with that?

Well, the reason he makes comments like that, just like the reason he made comments about hating Donald Trump and Trump being America's Hitler back in 2016 is because at the time, that's where the money was. Now, look, you got a lot of these macho male influencers who make a lot of money going out there on social media, talking about how much they hate women. Women, you belong in the kitchen. And I think.

But, how do you do that and win an election? I mean, when your wife hears that, my God. How does that win an election? Is what I'm trying to say.

Well, right. But a lot of these comments were from 2021 and 2022 before he announced he was running for Senate.

Even back then, how did it win an election? That's what I'm trying to get to.

It was more quiet back then. Nobody, well, his was a very popular race, but he was still running off the high of his book and his reformation. And now, oh, I've seen the light. I love Trump. But he to me is like so many other folks. He is the political chameleon. If it's more expedient for me to be this today, I'll be this. If tomorrow it's different, I'll be that thing. Charlie Crist, I think is one of the best examples of that.

Oh, yes, yes, yes.

And this guy is a Charlie Crist.

That's well put, that's very well put.

Like, I'm a Republican and by God I do Republican things. Oh, it's okay. No, today I'm a Democrat by God, and I'm the best Democrat there is.

Doesn't it sound like Joe Brzezinski?

Scarborough, he's another great example too. I mean, the guy used to go to Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago for parties.

I know.

But it's.

Well, okay. I don't care. I honestly don't care. If I were Trump, I'd be looking at the guy saying, why do I have any criticism? Why don't I have a ghost that just disappears? Doesn't say anything.