What was that brand new mantra in the GOP, that turn around right after the ear/shrapnel mishap in Butler, Pennsylvania? Five letters, began with a U? Oh yeah, “unity,” it all comes back to me now. Due to Donald Trump’s fantastic brush with death, “a quarter inch from being killed,” the Mango Messiash had an epiphany and from there on out intended to be a spiritual, evolved version of himself and bring the country together. That was on July 13. Then on July 15 Trump named J.D. Vance as his vice president. And it was predicted here and elsewhere, prior to the Republican convention, that Vance would in fact be chosen. Why? Two reasons: Trump’s idiot sons and the fact that Vance was a terrific toxic cesspool of MAGA talking points on the Sunday shows. Trump had better picks than Vance, but he passed them over. He may be living to regret that and it’s only been two weeks.
Republican lawmakers are divided over whether Donald Trump should ditch his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), who has become a magnet for controversy and negative press coverage since Trump tapped him for the role earlier this month. […]
“I would assume he’s not real happy,” one Republican senator said of how Trump is handling the barrage of negative publicity that’s hit his running mate over the past ten days.
“I don’t think Trump likes any discomfort – he can create discomfort himself — but he doesn’t like external discomfort coming in and JD’s struggling. I would assume he’s not real happy,” they added. […]
Still, the discontent is not limited to the Senate. A number of House Republicans told The Hill last week that they had concerns about Vance’s foreign policy positions, lack of experience and inability to expand the Republican coalition beyond Trump’s base.
Senate Republicans familiar with private conversations with Trump or top members of his team say many of their colleagues recommended other options, such as Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), the Senate’s only Black Republican, who played a key role in crafting Trump’s 2017 tax bill.
“It’s pretty generally thought that it was his son and Tucker Carlson who talked him into it. I’m sure Susie Wiles and [Chris] LaCivita didn’t,” the senator said, referring to Trump’s two top campaign advisors. “Because they’ve done so well up until this point in being able to widen” Trump’s appeal as a candidate.
“Unforced errors,” the senator added.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) tried to talk Trump out of picking Vance while aboard Trump’s plane en route to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, according to The Washington Post. Graham argued that Rubio would pick up more swing votes in battleground states. […]
Under Republican National Committee (RNC) rules, the RNC can replace Vance as a nominee for vice president only in the case of “death, declination, or otherwise.”
“Trump would hate anything that brings him down but he would never think he made a mistake,” the senator said.
The senator mimicked Trump’s signature line on his reality TV show “The Apprentice”: “You’re fired,” the source said in an attempt to imitate Trump’s voice.
Trump will not “fire” Vance, because technically he can’t. Vance may “decline” the nomination but it will be obvious that Trump asked him to leave the ticket. It will be a bloody mess, make no mistake about that. Trump’s picking Vance has been characterized as “confident” and “cocky,” and done at a time when Trump thought that he had the election sewn up.
The election is far from sewn up. Nine days ago Joe Biden saw to it that this is a completely different election. Trump needs every new vote he can get, not a mini me spewing MAGA talking points. Ergo, the question now is what will he do?
- It’s going to be messy to get rid of Vance;
- Who is he going to get as a replacement? Nikki Haley? Elise Stefanik? Tim Scott? They’re all going to have the burden of being the understudy suddenly cast in the role;
- Or, does he stick with Vance and watch the oppo research people steamroll his VP from now until November 5 with all the negative criticism of Trump that is in Vance’s record? Not to mention each new gaffe that Vance is sure to come up with?
Beats me. These were all considerations before Trump made his disastrous choice. Nothing has changed, except to happen exactly as people predicted that it would. Trump’s option now is to look bad by replacing Vance or to pretend that everything is swell as the situation worsens in the next three months. One thing I can tell you, I would not want to be J.D. Vance, or Don Junior, right now. Trump is going to need an outlet for his frustrations and they’re it.
Or, their plans to actually steal this election are kicking into high(er) gear. I understand Rachael Maddow (who else) is beginning to cover this issue, which I have been concerned about since 2020. LaCavita says “The election won’t be over until Inauguration Day.” Oh Yeah fat lip, why is that? Your team lost ALL the lawsuits last time (60 of 61). Repeating that tripe won’t get different results. We know you ratfuckers have something new, and you haven’t included it in Project 2025, so we’re gonna have to be way ahead of the curve figuring it out: hmm, something something election counting staff people something…it’ll come to me, I’m sure…
The truth is, if we win by a landslide — or even just a comfortable margin, like last time — their fantasy stolen election B.S. will not fly.
Not sure I agree. At least not if what Maddow said last night is truly in the works. That is, for various swing state authorities to simply refuse to certify the election results for counties that they decide are in question, maybe with non-existent fraud. From what she said, this is a possible scenario in, if I recall correctly, 17 states. Stopped me in my tracks I must say.
They aren’t exactly unwilling to.lie, cheat, and steal. If there’s a,dirty trick they hope might slip under the radar, they’ll try it. Their family values include bribery, finagling with the rules just enough…
WELL, the matter of facts has never been a needed quantity in the Trump loser pool, I never thought that Trump’s final breath as a stupid, useless wart, would be delivered by the newest VP contestant …
Using replays and direct reporting, it seems the bearded Albatross around Trump’s neck has just said some things I find extremely offensive because of my wife and I are celebrating our 54th year as a married couple this August, 2024, and his claims against people without children is off the charts …
Hate speech comes easy for Trump, THIS LIZARD is supposed to be a step up for our Country if elected, hard to be true, as he has just shown, openly stupid comments about our seniors, which as a whole block of voters, will vaporize Trump AND this useless troll, the cloud of smoke from the crash of TRUMP and the GOP will be a nuisance, for a while, still, being the fresh air of truth becoming our new wave voting for Democrats and burning every Republican possible in Congress …
Hey Trump, taking a big chance on Vance is the most stupid thing you have done in 2024, it may melt down the whole GOP gridlock and permit Democratic ideals to return to the Country without the Gym Jordon’s and others stinking up our Capitol …
BTW, I never knew the Albatross had a beard till now … 🙂 🙂
So you’re saying you and your wife never had children? I know a lot of people that’s true of, married, coupled, whatever. I’ve never had kids and I’m not going to accept this asshole’s branding me an inferior, second class citizen because of that fact.
I do have kids, two of my own I raised, along with two of my husband’s kids, who lived with us, but the whole kids’ “thang” is offensive to those of us who have had kids because it is ignorant among other things. So much so, must say here, that I ordered the cat lady t-shirt this morning for myself (and yes, I do have cats but it’s really in solidarity with my sisters in soul who are childless for whatever the reason). And which, frankly, is none of Vance’s damned business either.
I don’t see von shitzi dumping hillbilly boy. That would smack him choosing unwisely/wrongly and I just don’t think he could bring himself to do something that would indicate that he did so.
If there is another way to rid the ticket of the blowhard….other blowhard I mean, that might do it-him declining? I don’t see that succeeding however because I’ve a feeling hillbilly boy likes the taste of being one dementia episode away from taking over and unlike the fools of von shitzi’s administration, he wouldn’t have any problem at all about using the 25th. I suspect he is wondering just how fast he could get it going if they won.
Okay, here’s the question I’ve had since I read about the RNC conditions for removal the other day: what does that last word “otherwise” mean? Haven’t in searches found any satisfactory answer. Is this an out? Don’t know. Might this be useful as a parsing on steroids? Whatcha think?
“Otherwise” is a hole big enough to sail a supertanker through, and Vance is leaking oil from multiple gaping holes. It all comes down to Trump’s own ego as in admitting he made a mistake. Even his base will realize that however it’s spun Trump decided he could have chosen better. Yes, they will rationalize in such terms but deep inside they’ll know Vance was replaced because Trump, “He who can do no wrong” decided on this one he in fact made the wrong choice. I could be wrong myself about it but I just don’t see Trump being willing to admit he blew it with Vance. Instead I think he’ll tell himself it’s another Access Hollywood situation and he somehow weathered that storm and squeaked into office. So, he’ll try to gut it out and hope this storm also blows over.
I hope he guts it out for another couple of weeks. VP Harris’ search for a running mate is under tremendous pressure because Aug. 7 is the deadline. During the following week states will start making ballots because all the STATE’S deadlines for who gets on the ballot will have passed. So if Trump is going to make a change he’s got to do it soon. He might, and I emphasize MIGHT decide at some point Vance has to get thrown under the bus, but it he waits much longer it’s still going to have Trump/Vance as the GOP ticket on all the ballots!
Sure, GOPer voters would know Vance is gone for who the hell knows but it will still be a reminder of Trump’s massive f**Kup in naming Vance in the first place. An awful lot of them who were wavering, and had managed to push the crazy of his four years in office and all the crazy since will say “No. Not again.” I won’t vote for Harris but I”ll pick someone else or write in a name, or leave the Presidential spot blank.” Not voting for Trump is almost as good as them voting for Harris!
He can blame it on underlings who didn’t properly vet hillbilly boy. Not his fault because he trusted advisors to do their job. Also he loathes Rubio and likely can’t handle sharing a podium with a Scary Brown Person like Scott,let alone an icky woman.
“A number of House Republicans told The Hill last week that they had concerns about Vance’s foreign policy positions, lack of experience and inability to expand the Republican coalition beyond Trump’s base.”
The single funniest line in the whole article!
To think that ANY House Republican would have “concerns” about any of those issues when they largely ignore those same concerns about the guy they’ve got at the top of the ticket . . . . Well, it just stretches the bounds of “laughable.” Despite 4 years in the White House and three and a half years whining outside of it, Trump has as much REAL “foreign policy positions” as he had when he first darkened the grounds of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And, “experience” in general? What was Trump’s “experience” prior to Election Day, 2016? A “reality” TV show and a bunch of BANKRUPTCIES? And, hell, Trump himself basically told the REPUBLICANS who didn’t vote for him that he didn’t need them so why would he have ANY concern for “growing the base?”
House Republicans are the perfect example of “None so blind as he who will not see.”