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Really feels like Vance is being set up as the fall guy to blame when trump loses.
"If he had just picked someone else as VP, he would've won!" -conservatives in five months
It's amusing you think Republicans will do anything but say the election was stolen by the left.
Yeah, it's actually not possible for me to imagine Republicans losing the presidency again without claiming fraud. Even if saying that directly stops playing as well, they will just move onto softer language about it. Like when they went from being directly racist to claiming all problems are certain immigrants' fault.
They will "just ask questions" about particular states' results. I don't think we will come back from that. It may even bleed over to Democrats saying it eventually, just because it's so established in the zeitgeist that it's possible, some lesser thinking Dems may run with it.
Notice how none of them hesitate to do this shit now. It's because they've started to internalize that democracy is bad because it doesn't give their party the advantages they feel entitled to.
They’ll do both
They'll say both. Cognitive dissonance isn't a problem for Trump voters.
Yea. There's a word for that. It's called losing.
Vance brings no new votes to the table. He is really just there because Peter Thiel agreed to donate to the campaign if Trump made him VP. When Biden was still in, the GOP believed that the election was as good as won so they didn’t believe they need to appeal to anyone else. Now that Kamala is running, the initial reaction and polling is showing that this race isn’t going to be easy for the GOP and Vance looks like a shitty pick.
I must say that after many grueling and sometimes flat out boring and repetitive episodes, the USA show sure surprised us with this new twist.
I love it!
And JD Vance has earned all the hate MAGA is going to send his way. Bending the knee may give short term gain, but it will ultimately ruin your life and legacy, like a whole list of these lifelong Republicans. The Lindsay Graham's and Ted Cruz's who took Trump's abuse and just cowered like the pathetic people they are.
MAGA will be in the history books beside the confederates as the traitor party.
Bold of you to assume they’re ever going to admit having lost. How else will they rationalize another attempted coup?
He's a piece of shit so if they turn on him, (which we know they will) I'm good with it.
He was the bag man for Cryptobros. Trump puts him on the ticket and the money flows into the Trump campaign.
Now it's looking like a raw deal, as Trump has to spend all that new money defending his hideous little troll of a VP.
Missed a perfectly good opportunity to run a horny VP like Kristi Noem or Laura Boebert or Hope Hicks.
Still would have lost, but at least we wouldn't need Vance's mug all over the TV.
Maybe Trump will get them to hang him.
No I think Trump and team figured they had this in the bag and no need to pick anyone else that could appeal to the normies. They are all in on MAGA and gods willing it explodes in their faves
When Trump loses, what's the worse that can happen to JD Vance?
It's not like Trump is going to send a mob to kill his vice president running mate. Oh wait.
I hope mascara isn’t toxic to leopards!
As long as they lose I’m not sure I care who they blame it on.
Blame everyone but Trump.
Don't worry, the qons will always find a cop-out. This is the bunch that were suddenly full of "independents" who never even heard of this W guy after Iraq was so obviously a gigantic clusterfuck and who never even heard of this Romney guy after he got spanked by a Blah guy.
No, these people were suddenly teabaggers that were deep into this "tea party" that never was a thing before being made a thing by Faux and friends. Also, don't call them "teabaggers", they never, ever used that term for themselves (and don't go looking around for any proof of this or anything. Just believe the teabaggers, er, I mean the "tea party members" of this so-called truth).