JD Vance Picked as Trump’s Veep – IOTW Report

JD Vance Picked as Trump’s Veep

80 Comments on JD Vance Picked as Trump’s Veep

  1. I’ll try to keep up hope for the best, but I’ve got a bad feeling about this. Money people behind Vance are largely the money people who were behind DeSantis. IOW, a RINO globalist cabal.

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  2. I don’t see any alarms going off with Vance. I’ve heard some of his interviews in the past and think he is a pretty well grounded conservative. Ultimately the main think is that Trump likes him.

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  3. I recall but don’t remember details about his ties to a San Francisco billionaire which was questionable during our Senator race. For sure he wasn’t my primary pick. And as others are saying, he was a Never Trumper. Finally, I don’t believe Senators are good Executive branch material.

    SNS—I guess I understood the Governor appoints the replacement and then a Special Election is held and that person runs to hold the seat

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  4. Vance looks almost like Pence
    same last 3 letters 🙁

    still I like the Hillbilly to Ivy League thing
    and Marines

    PT wouldn’t pick him unless he was sure
    people can change minds (Vance) so he must be a solid MAGA I hope

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  5. Tulsi Gabbard posted that JD is a good pick. Guy Benson explained last week on the radio JD’s evolution was similar to hers.

    I didn’t want Rubio or Kennedy(!)

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  6. I think it’s a good choice and highly recommend his book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” which I read when it came out, before he was in politics. His backstory is the story of the Forgotten Man, in Appalachia and the Rust Belt and elsewhere, whose ability to support a family with manual or factory or trade labor has been sold out and replaced with broken families and drug addiction.

    His memoir is gut wrenching, personally, and was very disappointing to me when it turned political near the end. I thought he was too smart to buy more liberal lies. He was, he has come around, apologized, and embraced conservatism and Trumpism. I think he may be able to reach some other hopeless souls, especially younger ones, who want to believe in a better America and themselves.

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  7. Tulsi was my fav. And she was pretty anti Trump too. People evolve. Tulsi would make a great secretary of state.

    I thought J.D. did a good job with that Toxic Train wreck.

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  8. I think Trump could have made a choice that had a negative impact (Haley, Rubio, Scott for example), none that would likely add any votes. I’m fine with Vance. Would have liked Donalds, Tulsi, Youngkin, Fetterman.

    Okay I’m kidding about one of those. 🙂

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  9. Anyone who says they won’t vote for Trump because of this pick needs to immediately turn in your MAGA hat, your Trump yard signs, and your brain.
    If you don’t like Vance, fine, but any vote Trump doesn’t get is a vote for Biden.
    Do you honestly think Biden/Harris is better than Trump/Vance?

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  10. @LocoBlancoSaltine:

    Yes Uncle Al, just like Disney giving money to DeSantis, he became THEIR puppet.

    Loco, you don’t seem to understand why the money gets put into the game. It isn’t that people are trying to buy the pol and make him a puppet, it’s that they have reason to believe that, if elected, the pol will tend to support policies beneficial to the donors.

    Wait, what?

    OK. What?

    p.s. If the money people think that they CAN in fact turn a pol into a puppet, they will almost certainly jump at the chance. But that’s not the common case. Specifically, I don’t believe that either DeSantis or Vance have been bought. I do wonder why money people with non-MAGA interests believe that putting money into either campaign is somehow aligned well with those interests.

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  11. Well, ok. JD Vance is suppose to be a “former” Never-Trumper. Vance’s hatred of President Trump was venomous, though. Don’t trust him.

    President Trump really isn’t a great judge of character. He tends to favor “yes” people. Praying Vance is a good choice as VP. God help us if Vance is a worse traitor than Pious Pence.

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  12. I have considerable reservations concerning Vance. I’ve never, ever witnessed a skunk successfully shed it’s stripes nor stench. A work-up Sundance did a number of weeks back (17 Jun 24) only served to reinforce my already bellowing ‘Spidy-Sense.”

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/06/17/unfortunate-charlie-kirk-tpusa-and-richard-baris-construct-push-poll-to-influence-vp-selection/#more-261351

    My preference has always been Dr. Carson. I’ve known him personally, since 2006, and found him to be a man of unimpeachable integrity and character, with a crystal clear moral compass. Many complain that he is too reserved and quiet. I am quietly reserved as well, have been my entire life. A handful, to their discomfort, misjudged that a weakness. It is a mistake to underestimate a quiet man.

    “Beware the quiet man. For while others speak, he watched. And while others act, he plans. And when they finally rest… he strikes.”

    I will take a quiet man over a ‘Manchurian” every time!

    IATS
    TWD

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  13. OK Uncle Al, I’ll bite.
    Please name me one instance DeSantis has acted like a globalist.

    Fact is, he is far more conservative than Trump.
    Trump is far more moderate.
    Trump listened to Fauci and said DeSantis was opening the beaches too early.
    I trust Trump to do a better job in 2025.
    I also trust DeSantis since he hasn’t shown a single reason not to.

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  14. “President Trump really isn’t a great judge of character”

    Most of his adult life he didn’t need to be. If an individual wasn’t doing their job, YOU’RE FIRED. Next.
    I think we are all hoping he’s learned his lesson. He’s spent a lot of time with all the contenders. I’m willing to give the guy shot and support him.

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  15. The Vice President choice WILL NOT deter me from voting for President Trump. He’s the only person right now, appointed by God as the next president. He will get The United States of America out of the clutches of the Demon-crats.

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  16. This is make or brake for America, I think Trump realizes that.
    If we fail we’ll have a boot on our necks for years to come.
    Inflation alone is a battle we’re not done with.
    They are knowingly sucking the buying power out of our hard-earned money.
    Will we survive the evil that is out to get us?

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  17. @LocoBlancoSaltine:

    OK Uncle Al, I’ll bite.
    Please name me one instance DeSantis has acted like a globalist.

    He never achieved the office for which he was being backed and groomed.

    Imaging somebody in medical school who is just not suited to that profession. You see it, stand up, and say that this guy is going to harm patients. He flunks out and never becomes a doctor. Would it be reasonable for someone to criticize your airing a bad opinion of the guy because you can’t point out the times he killed his patients? Of which he had none?

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  18. ….And DeSantis is in this conversation because?….For God’s sakes, Trump was almost assinated only 2 friggin days ago. 4 years of Trump is our last chance to save our country and maybe he can learn JD up a bit in the next 4 years…

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  19. @willysgoatgruff — Blame me for mentioning DeSantis. I was likening Vance’s to DeSantis’s PAC donors and I should have known that would get @Loco’s hackles up. Mea culpa.

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  20. @Brad: Agreed, people do evolve, as JD Vance has, and as he can encourage others, by example, to do. It’s a good choice for the ‘uniting’ theme. (And: it will make for an awesome vice-presidential debate w/Kamala.)

    @ Juan Borracho: I nominate Tucker Carlson to take KJP’s job as Presidential spokesperson. Must see TV!

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  21. @willysgoatgruff — Terminate? No, no, no. I don’t want to do that! And seeing that I don’t know a soul who can come remotely close to @Loco in shear persistence, I seriously doubt that I’d have any chance even if I were so inclined.

    I value LocoBlancoSaltine’s comments here a lot. I mean, A LOT. In any group you really need to have at least one participant who takes things to extremes, takes them past what the rest would consider reasonable limits. It’s people such as that who define the limits, and that’s quite essential.

    FWIW, in professional life it was a role I took deliberately from time to time. It’s good to make people think through their positions and make rational arguments against going too far off course.

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  22. Little Morphin’ Annie

    J.D. Vance is not a stupid man. Kami doesn’t stand a chance. J.D. should use Tulsi for his debate prep. Tulsi killed her in the debates.

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  23. Cmn¢¢guy, How don’t see how Vance goes from what is depicted in that video to now being a fan boy. If people can swing that much in such a short time without a life altering event, then they have no core.

    Trump may give us a “breather” but the storm is still on the way.

  24. Just a thought – As a junior Senator JD is not a well seasoned politician. He is still learning (read moldable). With this newfound gift, he gets to learn from one of the very best (not necessarily a politician as much as a fine character in general with a take-no-shit spine, determination and compassion) … under fire in one of the worst, divided, vitriolic times we’ve ever seen. That right there is the ultimate gift that few get to take advantage of. Personally, I think he knows that, but if he doesn’t, Trump will remind him in New York moment because Trump doesn’t suffer fools, especially as someone he works that close with and ESPECIALLY after that disingenuous Q-Tip, backstabbing Pence! (see even Trump learns).

    I’m over seventy and I still learn something new everyday!

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  25. Cmn¢¢guy, I don’t see how Vance goes from what is depicted in that video to now being a fan boy. If people can swing that much in such a short time without a life altering event, then they have no core.

    Trump may give us a “breather” but the storm is still on the way.

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  26. BTW – When I say “As a junior Senator JD is not a well seasoned politician”
    Soooo…I also want to add, do we really need a VP who has THAT KIND of experience??
    Keep in mind Trump didn’t have THAT experience either the first time around either!
    Just think of the experience JD will have after four years as an understudy to Donald J Trump!

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  27. Harry
    MONDAY, 15 JULY 2024, 18:18 AT 6:18 PM

    “Just think of the experience JD will have after four years as an understudy to Donald J Trump!”

    Yes. Just think about it.

  28. Harry, I’m also over 70, physically I am an old guy now, but mentally and intellectually I don’t feel all that old because I still have a lot of learning and reading to do. And being a good grandfather to my 5 grandkids to help them to grow up normal in a Bizarro world that is nothing like what I grew up in.

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  29. geoff – grow up normal in a Bizarro world… Yeah that’s a challenge today! It’s actaully not that hard to do, but it takes a well-grounded family with beliefs, character and wholesome activities, not video games and participation trophys! The whole family has to be on the same page or it will be bizzaro world!

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  30. My son stands with me with his 2 girls and my one grandson and so does my daughter and son in law in Nashville with their 2 girls. My wife and I did it with our 3 kids back in the 80’s and 90’s along with help from both of their grandparents and extended family and we did OK.

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  31. I am good with his pick,for many reasons.
    #1 President Trump has been talking to him a lot,and letting him know what is at stake for our country.
    #2 President Trump Knows how to lead and mentor men and them put then in roles to work in his company. And Gals also.
    #3 He did not take this pick like he “Had to with Pence” this is his own choice.
    I am not going to lose sleep over the next Vice President standing along side of President Trump.
    We all change over time I for one was a hard core dem for most of my life,and then went to the 2008 convention in Denver and saw first hand how the dems ran things.
    All that being said, on the way home to Seattle we were converted to hard core conservatives by the time we got to Butte from Denver.
    Rush was on the radio and we have never looked back. (My Back Story for new folks)
    We were one of the first to support President Thump here,and there were many battles fought that got down right nasty, and I for one will not engage in a fight here over his pick.
    I support him 100 percent.

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  32. I’m an Ohioan, and I like Vance just fine. Knowing how he grew up, I get his early consternation of Trump, but even more appreciate him being a free thinker who realized Trump was also for the regular guy, just like he was. Sorry to lose Vance in the Senate, as he’d be a great advocate for President Trump, but still very happy to have Vance as VP.

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  33. Keep in mind Reagan and Trump were both Democrats at one time.
    People can change and get a paradigm shift in thinking.
    America is kind of on the ropes and the Marxist / communist mean to burn it down.

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