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On VP pick, time for Trump to take a mulligan 

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30.07.2024

As any father would tell you, as much as we always try to support our kids, there are times when you just have to tell them: “Look, you know I love you, but on this matter – you’re just plain wrong.”

Many Republicans today are wishing Donald Trump had told Donald Jr. that when, reportedly, Junior personally persuaded Daddy to reject a handful of highly-qualified candidates and tap untested Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) as his vice presidential running mate.

What a mistake. Vance is the least impressive and most damaging vice presidential nominee since Sarah Palin. But at least Palin was lively, funny and capable of firing off a few, well-aimed zingers. Vance is as lively as roadkill.

Did anybody on the Trump campaign bother to check Vance’s acid comments about Donald Trump before giving him the green light? “I’m a Never-Trump guy,” Vance proudly proclaimed in 2016. That same year he repeatedly said he believed Trump had committed sexual abuse,........

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