I was a bit mystified by President Trump's pick of JD Vance for VP. I still don't fully understand the move, but an article I read this morning added a bit of clarity:
https://www.notus.org/trump-2024/rupert-murdoch-trump-doug-burgum-vp-j-d-vance
Bottom line: Rupert Murdoch HATES Vance to the point that the article claims Murdoch has been calling Trump multiple times per day heading up to his selection with one of the messages being "Anyone but Vance".
My question while reading the article was "Why?", and that's finally hit on at the very end with a Tucker Carlson quote:
""A lot of supposedly conservative news outlets turn out to have zero interest in anything their readers and viewers care about. Instead, they’re focused on promoting pointless wars. That’s why they’re working so hard to destroy J.D. Vance before Trump can pick him. Let’s hope they don’t succeed,” Tucker Carlson, who worked for Fox News from 2009 until 2023, told NOTUS in a statement."
Now, that quote isn't evidence, but Tucker is very plugged in. Perhaps Vance was selected in part because he doesn't have puppet strings attached to him.
Though that still doesn't explain Vance's ridiculous comments about the President a couple of years ago.
Regardless, I still don't fully understand the Vance pick. But the thought of Rupert Murdoch having heart palpitations about Vance as VP certainly makes me more comfortable with President Trump's choice.
Kurt Schlichter on Townhall media just wrote this: "I was a traditional conservative, and I thought Donald Trump was a NYC liberal and that he would govern like one. But you know what? I was wrong."
He thinks that Vance started from a similar position, they just didn't trust that Trump meant what he talked during his first campaign because of his background. So they fought against him.
And there probably are quite a lot of similar cases. A lot of them already voted for Trump back then simply because he was the only choice unless they wanted Hillary to win, but then voted in the last elections, and now, because now they trust him.
And hopefully you will now have a bunch adding their votes who didn't vote in the previous elections because they didn't trust him or just didn't like him, or don't even now quite trust him, but have realized that there really is no choice now.