Some Republicans are starting to seriously regret Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance.

It’s been only one week since Vance was nominated at the Republican National Convention, and already his own party members are expressing severe doubts about Trump’s pick. The former president’s allies have acknowledged that nominating Vance was the product of Trump’s absolute certainty that he would be able to defeat Joe Biden in November. While Vance wouldn’t do much for swing voters or independents, he would likely shore up support among Trump’s base.

But ever since Biden passed the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s new presumptive nominee, Republicans have begun to sour on Vance.

“The road got a lot harder. He was the only pick that wasn’t the safe pick. And I think everyone has now realized that,” one House Republican told Axios Thursday, under the condition of anonymity.

Another House Republican told Axios that Vance “doesn’t add much.”

  • @Makeitstop
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    463 months ago

    I mean, his last VP pick had lightning powers. This one fucks couches. That’s a hell of a downgrade.

    • @pyre
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      63 months ago

      lightning powers? I’m ootl

        • @pyre
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          53 months ago

          oh… yeah; just never heard conversion therapy described as “lightning powers”…

      • @Makeitstop
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        43 months ago

        There were a lot of memes involving mike pence having lightning powers, and often fighting anything gay with electricity. IIRC this all came from him allegedly advocating for electroshock therapy as a method of conversion therapy (which snopes said is false, and that’s as much research as I’m putting into a tangent on meme history)

        • @pyre
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          13 months ago

          i know about his conversion therapy thing; missed the memes apparently.

    • @chakan2
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      33 months ago

      Well…if he’s fucking hard enough maybe he can generate some static discharge.