I think Marcotte hits it out the park.
It’s performative assholery to own the libs.
https://www.salon.com/2024/09/05/in-the-alternate-universe-jd-vance-is-charming-and-popular/
From Marcotte at Salon yesterday to Marc Caputo writing for The Bulwark today --
"Vance isn’t on the ticket to win over liberals or even, necessarily, persuade moderates. The Trump campaign sees him as an asset in a base turnout election, where the objective is to increase the number of men, especially white men in swing states, who go to the polls."
This reinforces Amanda's point that MAGA just cares about, again, sticking it to the libs and ol' skool Rs...
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/jd-vance-has-become-trumps-human
“Vance isn’t on the ticket to win over liberals or even, necessarily, persuade moderates. The Trump campaign sees him as an asset in a base turnout…”
This is stupid electoral math. You CANNOT WIN based on men alone. Women vote in larger numbers. Without women, a candidate will lose. That’s reality.
You also cannot win without Independents. Vance it turning both groups off.
Today, Trump’s BIGGEST problem is his running mate (though a close second would be the word salad of late).
Maybe it's merely assuagement of the MAGA dipshits and dumbasses (who are potentially wavering) and the bamboozled women who love them? 🤔
Or -- Donnie thinks that they got it in the bag cuz all of that "we don't need the votes/we have the votes we need" jibber jabber. Maybe he thinks that with the Trumpist takeovers of election boards enough chaos will be sown, thereby kicking it up to Scalito and Roberts and Mr. Ginni et al...