Within a fortnight of Trump accepting but certainly not selecting Vance as his running mate, rather this pick forced on him by a major donor, Vance made history. Specifically, he recorded the worst immediate polling figures for a Presidential running mate selection in American history. He’s now in sizeable negative territory and I’m certainly not surprised.
The Vance story has been a huge beat-up.
He made his name through his autobiography “Hillybilly Elegy”, this a reasonably enjoyable “poor boy makes good” read, but ludicrously over-hyped.
But pre-politics what does “making good” constitute in his case? Certainly not financially as Forbes has his current net worth at an insignificant US$10 million. That sum would scarcely get him in the New Zealand top 100 Rich list.
He’s on record as having savagely and correctly attacked Trump in the past, thus his acceptance of the deputy role made him a hypocrite prepared to sell his soul to pursue an improbable ambition.
I’ve never had any doubt that Trump will lose the coming Presidential election. That’s becoming increasingly evident and with Vance in tow he will, as Trump himself might say, lose “bigly”.
Vance’s brief political career to date has seen him only narrowly scrape through elections.
In short he clearly is charisma-free and I’ll wager that within a week of Trump losing against Harris, Trump will publicly turn on his enforced running mate to blame.
Notwithstanding his “Hillybilly Elegy” effort Vance strikes me as possessor of an extremely dull personality and as the polls reveal, that’s clearly a widespread sentiment.
His first post selection public utterance was a Trump style, incredibly dumb attack on Kamala Harris as a childless cat lady. That was extraordinarily poor taste and bounced badly with the public. In particular it struck a negative chord with the huge fan base of the world’s most popular female popstar, Taylor Swift, also a childless cat lover.
Trump is an abomination. Absolutely nothing good can be said about him. He’s a disgrace, not merely to America but to the entire human race.