Polls show Republican vice presidential candidate J.D Vance effectively amplifies Trump’s political strengths but that he also magnifies his weaknesses.
Donald Trump knew that J.D. Vance could take a punch. But during their first week together on the campaign trail, the former president wondered just how many hits his new running mate could absorb.
Trump had instructed his young sidekick to fight forcefully through those initial attacks and later said Vance’s execution exceeded his expectations, according to three allies who insisted on anonymity to discuss private conversations. Vance would be the nation’s youngest vice president since 1953, when Richard Nixon took the oath of office at 40. Common traits run through their backgrounds and early careers.
The most damaging attack on Vance last month centred on his comments from a Fox News interview in 2021, when he lamented the numerous “childless cat ladies” among American leaders, including Kamala Harris. Vance’s excitement at joining the fray was immediately visible. He arrived with a fresh haircut and neatly trimmed beard for his first solo rally, a hometown event in Middletown, Ohio. In a sign of his astonishment at every warm welcome from his pro-Trump crowds, Vance opened each event for the first several weeks with the same single exclamation: “Wow!”
“Every VP candidate gets attacked when they’re chosen; it’s how you handle it that matters,” said Republican Senator Steve Daines, who is overseeing his party’s Senate campaigns. “They’re throwing hardballs at him, throwing curveballs at him, and he’s really been very impressive.“ Later, when his plane followed Air Force Two into Chippewa Valley Regional Airport in Wisconsin, he hurried down the tarmac straight for Harris’ plane.
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