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VP JD🧔🏻‍♂️

We’re now in the Disciplined Trump Era. Ben Domenech of The Transom wrote, “J.D. Vance has been the odds-on VP favorite for more than a month. What makes the choice surprising is how anti-climactic it is, and that the past month (Biden’s debate meltdown, legal shifts, and assassination attempt) didn’t change anything.”

I’ve been pretty adamant that we not take away a Republican Senator, but I trust that Ohio can elect a Republican again. If Trump is back to listening to Ann Coulter like he did on illegal immigration in 2016, this is a really good sign:

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Pick the Hillbilly, Trump

Now that it looks like Trump is seriously going to be the Republican nominee for president, who should his vice president be? If he’s headed for a catastrophic, 1964-style defeat, then he should definitely pick Nikki Haley or Kari Lake. Another four years of Joe Biden will be a disaster for the country, but at least we can accomplish something by…

a year ago · 156 likes · 54 comments · Ann Coulter

Besides being a Senator who has more razzamatazz than Coulter gives him credit for, Senator Vance also has an amazing story to tell. If you haven’t already, check out his book Hillbilly Elegy, which has now shimmied back up to the #1 position on Amazon.

From Ed Morrissey at Hot Air:

By choosing Vance as his running mate, though, Trump can keep his base happy and fired up. Plus, it's been clear since Trump's acrimonious split with Mike Pence that he would almost certainly not use the pick to elevate the establishment faction of the GOP again. He wants a partner he can trust, plus someone who can carry on the MAGA agenda and base in case he can't finish the term, and/or into the future. This allows Trump to expand his appeal rather than changing his entire approach. And he can also ask Vance to do some of the rhetorical heavy lifting on the MAGA agenda with certified credibility while Trump himself focuses on conciliation and national leadership.
That's a smart strategy. It's not the only smart strategy that was available to Trump, but it's a rational choice, and not one likely to get much second-guessing this week.

Perhaps for the first time, we’re all really excited for the vice presidential debate. Well, maybe not Kamala.

RELATED: Trump rewrites Republican convention speech to focus on unity not Biden (Salena Zito at Washington Examiner)

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