Rachel Maddow: Trump’s Choice Of J.D. Vance As Running Mate Is Already Backfiring On Him

Convicted and disgraced former president Donald Trump probably thought his choice of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his running mate was a brilliant move, according to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, but it’s already backfiring on him and could cost him the election.

Trump picked Vance, Maddow explained, because he thought he would be running against President Joe Biden, who dropped out of the race on Sunday. Donald thought he needed to shore up support from conservatives instead of reaching out to independent and undecided voters, she added.

“He wanted him for governing, not campaigning.”

“They picked J.D. Vance because they thought they had this election in the bag, and Joe Biden did this today, and now it is an absolutely different ball game.”

“J.D. Vance and Donald Trump are going to lose in November and Donald Trump is going to regret picking J.D. Vance as his running mate.”

Vance’s extreme positions on the issues of abortion, contraception, and no-fault divorce, Maddow noted, are not popular with the vast majority of Americans.

“Any Democrat who can talk about the kinds of issues where J.D. Vance has taken the kinds of stances … those are not 50/50 issues in this country. They are not 60/40. He is taking the kind of stances that single digits of Americans support.”

Maddow concluded her remarks with this: “You do not need any type of Democrat in particular to prosecute a case against J.D. Vance. He is a real weirdo from a really, really narrow slice of the far right side of the ideological doctrine.”

“They picked him because they didn’t think he would have to be defending himself at all. Because he thought he didn’t need to compete very hard to win, he picked J.D. Vance. He picked someone who’s not going to help him at all.”

Looks like Biden may have managed to completely screw up the GOP’s election strategy. And if we’re lucky, it’ll cost them big time when the votes are counted.