Republicans Really Wish Trump Hadn’t Picked J.D. Vance

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Republicans Really Wish Trump Hadn’t Picked J.D. Vance
newrepublic.com

Some Republicans are starting to seriously regret Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance.

It’s been only one week since Vance was nominated at the Republican National Convention, and already his own party members are expressing severe doubts about Trump’s pick. The former president’s allies have acknowledged that nominating Vance was the product of Trump’s absolute certainty that he would be able to defeat Joe Biden in November. While Vance wouldn’t do much for swing voters or independents, he would likely shore up support among Trump’s base.

But ever since Biden passed the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s new presumptive nominee, Republicans have begun to sour on Vance.

“The road got a lot harder. He was the only pick that wasn’t the safe pick. And I think everyone has now realized that,” one House Republican told Axios Thursday, under the condition of anonymity.

Another House Republican told Axios that Vance “doesn’t add much.”

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republicans push their lies as facts. no one is trying to claim the couchfucker meme is true. it's trolling. not remotely the same thing as what republicans do. plus it's hilarious.

no, vance's new name is couchfucker, but I'm sure he appreciates you getting upset about it for him

Not everyone understands the trolling. I believed it might be based on something real for a couple days. Nope, just something that was made up. I've seen numerous people asking about it also, confused as hell...

I mean even if he really did write some shit like that, it would barely be funny enough to repeat for more than a week. But he didn't.

saying someone fucks couches is also not remotely comparable to making accusations of rigged elections, rigged judges, pushing, as fact, mountains of conspiracies, and on and on- while the top of their food chain is convicted felon and rapist

it seems ridiculous to even have to spell out these distinctions because of vance the couchfucker

Spreading false information should be avoided if you wish to be seen as being above it. That remains true no matter the content. It seems ridiculous to me that people seem to cling to the joke so hard that I need to spell that out.

So you want people to go high and drop thecouchfucker joke but mocking men for makeup is ok? How do you not see the ridiculous inconsistency here?

I explained it, it makes sense. Reject all you wish.

Thanks for your permission to openly call you a hypocritical ass.

Knock yourself out. You can pretend that this is about "men" and not about a particular man for a particular reason. Enjoy your stupid boring joke -- and the ammo you give moronic republicans who love to do the same kind of shit to democrats.

Vance is a piece of shit. This isn’t about him. The problem is you seem content making gendered attacks but draw the line at clearly absurd jokes. It doesn’t make sense.

Please stop responding. This is a really weird thing to be so outraged about, even if I had refused to explain.

You could have simply ignored me at any step of this conversation dude. Please spare me the faux high horse here. Block me, ignore me, whatever. You don’t have to have the last word.

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