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.