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Evaluating VP Prospects and the Fallout of JD Vance's Controversial Remarks
Could JD Vance's controversial remarks torpedo his political career? Today on The Darrell McClain Show, we kick off by scrutinizing the potential vice presidential picks for Kamala Harris. We break down the merits of Minnesota’s Tim Walz, Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro, Kentucky’s Andy Beshear, North Carolina’s Roy Cooper, and Arizona’s Mark Kelly. Each candidate has a unique blend of strengths, from legislative accomplishments to compelling speaking styles and high approval ratings. Listen as we play clips and dissect which of these political heavyweights could best complement Harris on the ticket.
Then, we turn our spotlight on JD Vance and his recent blunders, including his infamous “childless cat lady” comment that set social media alight. We expose the flawed logic behind his attempts to walk back those remarks and analyze how his rhetoric might be alienating key voter demographics. From controversial tweets to divisive policies, we explore the myriad ways Vance is stirring the pot and what this means for his campaign as well as the GOP at large.
Finally, we debate the implications of Vance as a vice-presidential pick for the Trump campaign. While some argue his unfavorable ratings could be a fatal flaw, we also highlight his rise from poverty and close alignment with the MAGA movement as potential assets. Tune in as we navigate the media scrutiny and internal GOP conflicts, offering a nuanced take on whether Vance’s controversies could cripple or catalyze Trump’s run for the White House. Don't miss this deep dive into the political landscape that could shape the next election cycle.
Welcome to the Darrell McClain Show. I'm your host, darrell McClain. Independent media that will not reinforce tribalism. We have one planet. Nobody is leaving, so let us reason together. Let's get into this conversation that we need to have Some speculation.
Speaker 1:We know who Donald Trump picked for his vice president that is JD Vance, but who is Kamala Harris looking to pick? Who are some of the options that people are discussing? Let's get into this. So when I was doing this, I thought it would be. It was pretty funny because I was looking at different media analysis and, of course, every media organization had different picks, so I just went through and looked at some of the ones that I thought would be the more likely candidates. So one is the governor, tim Walls. He's probably the top contender. He's coming from Minnesota and he's a former top contender. He's coming from Minnesota and he's a former high school teacher. He's a veteran. He flipped a very red district in Minnesota and he wins the state easily. So he's going to play. I'm going to let these guys play in a minute, but he speaks very comfortably and easy about middle class issues. He's actually the person that came up with that thing that they've been saying about some of the Republican policies lately, the weird tag that is actually very effective. Then you have the Pennsylvania Governor, josh Shapiro, whose favorability ratings in the state are very high. The new poll had him at 61% approval rating in the state of Pennsylvania. He won his reelection for governor so easily, running against a guy who, again, a lot of people thought was pretty weird. This guy has this Obama-like cadence. The media actually said before they call him the Jewish Obama and you'll hear that when you play him. He has that Obama-style cadence.
Speaker 1:The other one is Governor Andy Beshear of Kentucky. Andy Beshear is actually the most popular Democratic governor in the entire country, even in spite of the fact that he was a governor. He got himself reelected during governor during a very fraught political time. And of course we're talking about COVID, when in what is a hard red state and you know he still has very high approval ratings and he is pitching himself hard for, you know, really trying to strike like an Appalachian contrast with JD Vance as well, and he has been very effective at times.
Speaker 1:You have governor of North Carolina, roy Cooper. He and Kamala Harris have actually known each other for quite a while, going back to their time as attorney generals. Another Democrat winning in a fairly red state raises the questions, especially with a different coalition. Now he brings to the table Roy Cooper on this ticket as possible to put North Carolina in play. Joe Biden only lost it by less than two points that time around. So the question marks there and the other people are talking about is Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, astronaut swing state, you know, et cetera Pretty high approval ratings within the state. However, there are some issues, and some issues when it comes to unions and, of course, the other problem is if the Democratic governor would pick his replacement. However, that replacement would then have to run again in 2026 and, as focus as important as the Senate is, don't know if that would be a great pick. So let's get into some of just listening to these different gentlemen speak.
Speaker 3:Why is it so hard to understand when somebody else gets a right? It's not like a damn pie.
Speaker 4:Well, if somebody got a bigger piece of pie, I don't get it. Rights aren't that way. There's enough for everybody. There's not like a damn pie. Oh, somebody got a bigger piece of pie, I don't get it. Rights aren't that way. There's enough for everybody. There's enough for everybody to be included, same thing with jobs, same thing with housing, same thing with health care. So you saw it. We are not going to allow them to make the case. Yes, they're a threat, but we're not going to stay in their frame. We're not going to stay where they're at.
Speaker 3:We're not going to play their game. We called them out for the weird nonsense that they believe and we presented a different argument to the American public, one where everybody matters, one where we can achieve. One where we solve problems, one where we can achieve. One where we solve problems.
Speaker 1:So that was the governor of Minnesota. They like him because he's got the everyman type of feel Obviously this is audio, In that he's just wearing a T-shirt and a hat and also because he did something that had not been done in a long time. He flipped a state that had not had the win there for the Democrats since 1992. So his legislative accomplishments in the state have impressed a lot of people because, even though he has a one-seat majority, he's done things like pass universal school lunch. He's been getting really good marks because he did really good on the wage. He's been getting good on labor. He had some good legislation on the environment. So just across the board he's impressed a lot of people in the state of Minnesota.
Speaker 1:And on a personal note, the weird tag that he has been tossed out has actually been picked up by the nominee, Kamala Harris herself. So that is kind of a weak and a nod in his favor so far. Next we're going to go to the person that has been called the Jewish Obama. When you listen to him speak, you're going to go to the person that has been called the Jewish Obama. When you listen to him speak, you're going to hear the cadence in the way he talks. He's somebody that has somewhat modeled his career stylistically after the former president of the United States, and he is very popular within the state of Pennsylvania. So we're going to go to Josh Shapiro now.
Speaker 4:Again. You could not have a clear contrast in this race. You could not have a clear contrast between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. And let me tell you something he's pretty afraid. Y'all see this. He's backing out of the debate now. He's backing this thing toe-to-toe with our vice president, and you know why that is. It's not just because she's a skilled debater, it's not just because she's got the right positions on the issues that matter most to the good people of Pennsylvania and this country. Because he can't run away from his record anymore. Think about it Four years as president, guy stacks the NLRB with a bunch of corporate folks who have tried to rip away your rights every step of the way.
Speaker 1:We can't go back to that and he can't defend that. We can't go back to that and he can't defend that. We have to admit that is the Barack Obama-style cadence. He does a really good job at it. He does an effective job and he is very popular in Pennsylvania. He is a very attractive candidate because even a Fox News poll came out and had his approval rating Fox News poll at 61%. He has a 61% approval rating in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1:We're going to now move to the state of Kentucky, with literally the most popular Democratic governor currently in the country by the name of Andy Beshear. Now that says a lot, being that this is the red state of Kentucky, for the person to be the most popular Democratic governor to be from Kentucky. This is the type of person just personal opinion who should be leading the party. He is somebody who had leaned heavy into the populist populist um Cause, at the time where the country is really Having a conversation about does this stuff actually work for us, he has rode the populist wave Very effectively and more than likely is because either he's politically very intelligent, are he and his heart actually believes in the populism now he in his heart, actually believes in populism. Now he and this has been somewhat a trim with him he rode into power on the back wave of the teachers' strike there and these fights that were happening over wages and everything. And he has not stopped. And that was during the time they were trying to cut pensions and cut all public services. And that was during the time they were trying to cut pensions and cut all public services and he stepped up and said no, no, we can't have this in our state, this shall not stand. And that worked very well for him.
Speaker 1:And, of course, the thing that matters the most, a lot is money. He has brought a lot of money in Kentucky because he has brought a lot of jobs, a lot of manufacturing jobs, those battery plants and everything that have gone into the state of Kentucky. He is getting the credit for that. Very effective, very effective. He has the bonus of giving people jobs. You know, in a place where you know it was known that it is always at the bottom 10 on the list when it comes to the country I'm sorry, the states in the country that are on the bottom of the list when it comes to the economy, when it comes to poverty, when it comes to you know, homelessness, et cetera. You know homelessness, et cetera, and he has brought hope to that place and that makes him this popular because you see his policies actually being tested and he has so far delivered in a good way for this, for the state of Kentucky.
Speaker 4:This is not my first speech on the back of a pickup truck done. This is not my first speech on the back of a pickup truck. If you don't know me, I'm the guy that last November beat Mitch McConnell's handpicked candidate. I'm the guy that last November beat Donald Trump's handpicked candidate. Are you ready to vote? Are you ready to beat Donald Trump? Are you ready to?
Speaker 1:beat JD.
Speaker 4:Vance, are you ready to elect Kamala Harris president of the United States of America? God bless, thank you all. Let's win this race.
Speaker 1:Next we're going to go to the state where I am only about, maybe three hours away from he did recently actually somewhat pull his name out and say he really wasn't looking for the position to be vice president. But it says politics, and politicians often don't tell the truth. So I'm not. I don't know him personally so I can't say whether he is lying about that, but it's going to be South Carolina sorry, north Carolina's governor, roy Cooper. So I'm going to go to him now. Listen to him speak.
Speaker 3:Donald Trump won North Carolina in 2020 by 1.3 percent. This was his closest win and Joe Biden's closest loss. This was during COVID during 2020. Democrats really weren't doing the door-to-door taking people to the polls work that Republicans continue to do through COVID. I believe that North Carolina is definitely on the table to win. I've told the president that. I told the vice president that when she and I talked the other day, it was clear that the Biden-Harris campaign was targeting North Carolina. I think it's important for them to continue to do that. The threat to democracy that Donald Trump brings, the threat to women's reproductive freedom that he brings and I think that's a message that will resound not only in North Carolina but across the country.
Speaker 1:Last but not least, we're going to go to Arizona for Senator Mark Kelly least we're going to go to Arizona for Senator Mark Kelly.
Speaker 5:What is wrong about a woman who's been raped to not want to be able to terminate a pregnancy? What's wrong with that? Her two daughters and a grandfather. I really worry about their rights If Donald Trump is elected again and JD Vance is the vice president and that vision starts with me.
Speaker 1:So there we have it. Those are the top people that I have heard the media reporting, and now you know who they are Speaking of, let's say, vice presidential picks. Jd Vance has been getting a lot of, like I said, they're going to dig through those bones, and so he's been getting a lot of digging, and when the dig was going on, they actually pulled this out and the media is making a big deal of it so I want you to listen to it say Kamala Harris is a lot younger and Kamala Harris is obviously not struggling the same ways that Joe Biden did.
Speaker 1:So of course, I said that JD Vance was a decent pick, yada, yada, yada, and he has been having a tough go of it, and so I'm going to end the show with a clip where Kyle Kalinske, of the Kyle Kalinske show breaks down what he says that it's been getting worse and worse for JD Vance.
Speaker 2:Dan Quayle, who was notoriously bad, pulled way better than him. Sarah Palin, when they're being a horrific pick, pulls way better than him at the beginning. So it ain't looking good Now. As I told you guys before, the people who had input with Trump on picking JD Vance oh it's glorious. Apparently it was Elon Musk, tucker Carlson and Don and Eric. They're the ones who twisted his arm. He wanted Doug Burgum, he wanted Doug Burgum and he was going to pick Doug Burgum. But then at the last minute, according to the reporting, you had Don and Eric just absolutely lashed out and were yelling at him and he finally he relented. He was like, okay, well, if I got you guys telling me this and I have Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson who he views in high esteem, then I'll go in that direction. Well, boy, oh boy, don, do they have the worst political instincts of all time? Because even at face value, he doesn't really help the ticket. He comes from Ohio, you're guaranteed to win Ohio.
Speaker 2:It's not a swing state. I don't know what you're doing. What does he bring to the ticket? He's just, he's totally boring, totally uncharismatic, super weird way too, online, as some people are now calling him, they're saying he's the Ron DeSantis of Ohio and yes, it gives me those vibes. So a bunch of new things about him dropped over the weekend. I want to walk you through it, so let's start with this one. Okay, this is in Raw Story Quote I hate the police.
Speaker 2:Jd Vance railed at cops in bombshell email release from friend Interesting At the same time. At the same time, donald Trump is flooding his true social account with sketchy reports that Vice President Kamala Harris wanted to defund the police. She is a cop. She is a cop and to record the thing that the lefties criticize her for is being too tough on crime. Right, you say well, she's really weak on crime. She hates the police, even though she is one. Okay, anyway, when she was questioning where the funding should go.
Speaker 2:Comes from the New York Times that Senator JD Vance was once a fierce critic of cops, going so far as to claim he hated them In emails and texts obtained by the Times from Vance's longtime friend, sophia Nelson. In 2014, the newly anointed GOP vice presidential nominee, railed at the police after the shooting of 18-year-old black teen, michael Brown, by a white police officer in Ferguson, missouri. As the Times is reporting. Nelson wrote to Vance about the shooting that left Brown dead and suggested all police should wear body cameras, which led Vance to complain about police conduct. He wrote to Nelson quote I hate the police. Given the number of negative experiences I've had in the past few years, I can't imagine what a black guy goes through. The report notes that the earlier version of Vance showed some enthusiasm for reparations. Writing to Nelson, quote I have at least been convinced of the virtue of compensating modern victims who've suffered redlining or denial of federal benefits.
Speaker 2:So look, you read this, and this is something where you know the lefties will go. Okay, all right, man, I'll see you. But the issue here is probably the one group of people who are still all in for Vance and fighting for him relentlessly online his base. They're the ones who are going to look at this and go excuse you. Oh, hell, no. Now I know I shouldn't even trust you because this is right against their ideology. Okay. So this is. This is the most minor of the things that we're going to talk about let's continue here why JD Vance is being dogged by couch memes and struggling in general. So, guys, this has been all over the internet, this idea that JD Vance fucks couches. Now I got to admit, when I first saw it I was I don't understand. I saw like a video where there was like some Barry White music or something playing and it showed JD Vance's face and then a couch, and then JD Vance's face again and then another couch. I'm like what the fuck is this? And then, as the days went on, I was like oh, people are saying that he fucks couches. What's going on here? So we're going to see if we can figure out the genesis of this.
Speaker 2:Here we go, nearly two weeks after former President Donald Trump selected JD Vance as his running mate. It's safe to say the Ohio politician is struggling. His polling is the worst of any non-incumbent vice presidential nominee in decades. His years-old comments about childless cat ladies more on that in a little bit, by the way have drawn widespread disgust. Some in Trump's orbit worry they've made the wrong choice. In recent days he's been the target of a baseless rumor that he once had sex with a couch.
Speaker 2:It was always clear that Vance brought little to the table strictly electorally speaking. He does not represent a swing state. He does not diversify the ticket, and the selection of a MAGA true believer does not reassure more Trump-skeptic voters. He was the choice of a campaign that was brimming with confidence. President Joe Biden had not yet dropped out of the race, and Trump's team likely made the choice with the idea that it did not need the boost that other vice presidential contenders could have brought to the ticket, choosing instead to select an heir to the MAGA movement. What was less predictable were the significant headwinds that Vance is now encountering as the GOP's vice presidential nominee, which have been driven by the way he's talked about certain policies and enabled by the simple fact that most Americans are just now learning who.
Speaker 2:He tweeted that in his book, his 2016 autobiography, vance's 2016 autobiography, hillbilly Elegy, on pages 179 to 181, he explains how he fucked a couch. Now, guys, I hate to burst everybody's bubble, but that's actually not true. It is not in page 179 to 181 of his autobiography that he fucked a couch. That was made up. It was made up, it was made up, but it took off like wildfire. Bro, the lefties are memeing their asses off right now. I'm not kidding. The only thing I've seen comparable to this is like 2015, 2016 era rise of Donald Trump stuff, where the far right was memeing like crazy and basically memeing Trump's ass into the White House. We're seeing something that kind of looks like that now on the liberal and on the leftist side, where they're just having fucking fun online and saying whatever and throwing shit against the wall, and it took off like crazy bro. So this is where it gets even more funny. So after somebody posted that and it took off like crazy bro, so this is where it gets even more funny.
Speaker 2:So after somebody posted that and it took off like wildfire, the Associated Press decided to fact check the claim. They posted an article that said something like no, jd Vance doesn't fuck couches. And if you were to Google JD Vance's name for like a day or two there, that's the first thing that comes up. Is that AP article saying no, he doesn't fuck couches. And then they decided look, this didn't go through our normal vetting process. We're going to pull the article down. But by pulling the article down, of course, now people are going to go. Why did they pull the article? Does he fuck couches? Did they prove that wrong? Do we now know? He indeed does fuck couches, which is why they pulled it down, because they were factually wrong when they said he didn't fuck couches. Oh my God, this is just getting worse and worse and worse for him, bro. This is getting worse and worse and worse for him.
Speaker 2:Okay, so then we get to the childless cat lady comment. Now, that's to be fair, that's an older comment. It wasn't when he was vice president, it's from back when Tucker was on Fox News I don't know how many years ago it was and he made this comment about how, like he said, we're run by corporate oligarchs. True, true, jd, go on. And then he says, yes, the childless cat ladies. Okay, I'm willing to bet less than 5% of our corporate oligarchs are childless cat ladies. It's probably less than 2%. What are you talking about? It's classic like fake populist, like yeah, I'm looking out for the little guy, bro. And then you immediately do a bait and switch and, instead of attacking the actual corporate oligarchs, you just substitute that with whatever group you view as lefty, right. Childless cat women vote Democrat. Therefore, there's a problem in this country.
Speaker 2:Okay, so that comment took off and everybody was shitting on him for it. Now, why would you shit on him for that comment? Guys, it's very simple. In that same comment, he basically disrespected everybody that's not married, the standard, you know right-wing version of the American dream One man, one woman, two and a half kids, white picket fence, one dog. And so he managed to piss off single men, single women, stepmoms and stepdads, because apparently stepmoms and stepdads don't count, according to JD Vance. And it's just, you're throwing your middle finger up to gigantic swaths of the population, and so the population is going to fight back and say fuck you man. Who the fuck are you to come after us? But guess what? Oh, we'll get to that one in a second, because I want to show you him doubling down on the childless cat lady comment. So he goes on Megyn Kelly's show trying to clean it up and he makes it worse.
Speaker 5:I explicitly said in my remarks, despite the fact the media has lied about this, that this is not about criticizing people who, for various reasons, didn't have kids. This is about criticizing the Democratic Party for becoming anti-family and anti-child.
Speaker 2:We have to ask ourselves, megan why do we have— the Democratic Party is anti-family and anti-child. Hey, JD Vance, which party supports paid family leave? Which party supports paid family leave or whatever? But it's like over 90 percent of the Democrats support those policies and have voted in line with those policies, and like fewer than three percent of Republicans have done it, of Republicans, have done it. So spare me, because if we're having an honest conversation, the real takeaway would be damn. All of these elected Republicans, or certainly over 95% of them, are against families because they don't you know, do any policies that would help families financially?
Speaker 5:Masking of toddlers years after the pandemic ended? Why do we have the Harris campaign coming out this very morning, Megan, and saying that we should not have the child tax credit, which lowers tax rates for parents of young children?
Speaker 2:Nobody said that? Literally nobody said that. In fact, it was the Democrats who got us that he goes he lies about Kamala.
Speaker 1:by the way, he said it in a different interview and he's like she called for repealing child tax credit.
Speaker 2:No, the fuck she didn't. No, the fuck, she didn't.
Speaker 5:Become anti-family and anti-kid and I'm proud to stand up for parents and I hope the parents out there recognize that I'm a guy who wants to fight for you. I want to fight for your interests, I want to fight for your stake in the country and that is what this is fundamentally about. The Democrats in the past five, 10 years, Megan they have become anti-family. It's built into their policy. It's built into the way they talk about parents and children. I think we should be honest about the problem.
Speaker 2:So, in other words, he doubles out. This is him doubling down, and again what he's saying is objectively, factually false. The party for all of their problems, the party that supports families more in the sense that they improve the material conditions for those families, it's the Democrats over the Republicans. It's not even fucking close. It's not remotely close. So he's just wrong. He's wrong on the substance of it and again he goes back to well, fuck the Democrats. And I'm here to defend the parents. Except that means you're saying fuck single people and that means you're saying fuck the stepmoms and the stepdads, as he basically did previously, because apparently, if the kids are not biologically yours, it doesn't count. You're not actually a parent to him. Okay, Well, good luck with that campaign, bro. Good luck with that campaign Letting gigantic swaths of the country know that you're writing them off from the jump. All right, so that didn't go very well for him. Basically doubling down on it. Then we get this Okay, so JD Vance tweets this is on February 17, 2024.
Speaker 2:He says maybe the internet was a mistake and, as you can see here, he took a screen capture of this. At Crazy Clips, woman gets violated by a dolphin and enjoys it. Now you might look at this and say, well, I don't see the problem here, because he's saying this is bad, this clip is bad. He's not saying the woman getting violated by a dolphin is good. Here's the problem. You see the bold letters. There's bold letters for woman and it's bold letters for dolphin. What that means is he did a keyword search of woman, dolphin and that's how he found the clip. Hey, jd, why are you doing a keyword search for woman and dolphin? Care to explain? Now, look, it's possible that he saw this clip come across his timeline and then sometimes Twitter will like, automatically refresh and that clip will go away.
Speaker 2:And so he wanted to find it to say, hey, the internet was a mistake, this is bad, right. So he had in his mind when he first saw it. I got to say this goes too far, that's possible, or it's possible. He just searched woman, dolphin with that clip. Buddy, people want to know, people want to know. And then we also have this Again. It's just, he just keeps the hits coming, man, he keeps the hits coming. So this is one of Kamala Harris's like their team's account, and it's not hard to find JD Vance supporting any number of extreme policies, like he's ride or die for Project 2025, which is just all of the worst possible right-wing ideas put together in an amalgamation into one. And here's him parroting one of those policies. Listen to this, okay. Look. Here's the situation.
Speaker 5:Let's say Roe v Wade is overruled, ohio bans abortion in 2022. Let's say 2024. Um, you know, in 2022 or 2000, let's say 2024. And then you know, every day george soros sends a 747 to columbus. That's a load off disproportionately black women to get them to go have abortions in california. Of course, the left will celebrate this as a victory for diversity. Uh, that's kind of health justice.
Speaker 5:He's only exterminating us black people, something really, yeah, something like that could I mean that would be a really weird turn of events that could happen and it's like, if that happens, do you need some federal response to prevent it from happening, because it's really creepy and you know.
Speaker 2:I'm pretty sympathetic to that actually. So, in other words, let me break that down for you. He wants a federal abortion ban and he wants to ban it for people right now who live in a red state, who can't get an abortion for almost any reason. I think 14 states have a total ban, near total ban. He wants to ban it for somebody in a red state to travel to a blue state to get the reproductive health care they want and need. It doesn't get any more extreme on abortion than that, bro, it doesn't. He wants a national abortion ban which, by the way, is not what Trump is even saying right now. Trump is saying hey, the original position is my position. Overturn Roe v Wade, leave it to the states. That's what Trump's saying Now. Whether or not you believe him is a separate question. But JD Vance is saying no, I am to the right of that. I'd like to ban abortion nationally and also, right now, make it so somebody who's in a red state with restrictive abortion policies cannot go to a blue state to get an abortion. So banning traveling across state lines, which, by the way, also would be massively unconstitutional. But they don't give a fuck about the Constitution when it butts up against their ideology. Duh, that, that's how they are. Ok, so we'll end on this one right here.
Speaker 2:So this was reported in the Hill. One House Republican on the JD Vance pick quote he was the worst choice of all the options. It was so bad I didn't even think it was possible. This is a House Republican. These people are not known for having the best political instincts, and even the House Republicans are like bro, it can't get any worse positions and you will walk away wincing and cringing and facepalming and saying, no way, this guy should be nowhere near power. And that's apart from all of the surface level things like being deeply, deeply uncharismatic, like barely eking out a victory in what was supposed to be a red wave year and underperforming other Republicans all over the fucking place. Total donor creation. It's funny. He pretends to be a populist. He needed Trump's endorsement and a shitload of donor money to get across that finish line. And look, he makes it easy for Democrats. Democrats are having a field day with JD Vance.
Speaker 2:Now. The funniest thing and again we'll end on this here is I guarantee you Trump is thinking about dumping him. There's already been some whispers of that that Trump knows. Oh my God, why would I ever listen to Don and Eric and Elon and Tucker why? Why would I do that? They don't know shit about shit. Trump for all of his flaws, it is fair to say in 2015 and 2016, he had a very good, innate, intuitive sense of what to hammer away on, what to leave alone right. He knew how to walk the tightrope that is national politics to get enough of a following to get his ass into the White House. He has better political instincts than most of the idiots on the right and one of the very few times he doesn't listen to his gut and he goes with his idiot sons. Now look at what's happening. So it keeps getting worse for him. And look, guys, I genuinely think he hurts the ticket. He genuinely hurts the ticket Because he is underwater in his favorability rank that's unheard of after somebody becomes the VP pick.
Speaker 2:That's unheard of, he's underwater and so he's probably thinking about switching him out. That would be hilarious. I would love to see that, just for the lulz, but actually no, I don't want to see that, because he really, really makes it more likely that they will fail miserably. Hey, y'all do me.
Speaker 1:So anyway, that was Cal Kalinske from the Cal Kalinske Show, going against what I believed, which is that JD Vance was a decent pick and he brought no drama to the ticket because he has only been in the halls of the Senate for a very short time and he hasn't really caused a lot of trouble. He did have the fame from the book. He does have the past of going from poverty, et cetera, et cetera. So, and I thought it was the heir apparent to the MAGA movement and for those reasons I said I thought he was going to be the pick, I said he was going to be picked before he was picked and he was picked. And now the media is Digging his bones and Apparently, trump does not Like that. So, at any rate, we will see you On the next episode.