Polling on American voters’ opinion of GOP vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance is causing political observers to question whether Republicans are having buyer’s remorse over selecting him to run alongside Donald Trump in the 2024 election.

Trump hasn’t yet voiced any negative feelings toward his running mate, whom he personally selected and the party confirmed through a vote at its convention last week. But the selection of the Ohio Republican senator, who doesn’t even have two years under his belt in public office, was a curious one — Vance isn’t from a swing state, and he isn’t viewed as likely to bring in new support from voting blocs that Trump needs to win.

Indeed, the selection “was [born] of cockiness, meant to run up margins with the base in a blowout rather than persuade swing voters in a nail-biter,” wrote The Atlantic’s Tim Alberta, who noted that the strategy was developed prior to President Joe Biden dropping out as the Democratic nominee.

Now that Vice President Kamala Harris is the presumptive nominee for Democrats, Vance’s selection doesn’t seem to be very strategic. Meanwhile, polling is demonstrating that as voters get to know more about Vance, they become less........

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