# Who will be Trump's running mate? (J. D. Vance Has Been Chosen) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [January 22, 2024, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511 "2024-01-22T20:48:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 44
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/862 "2024-07-27T11:52:54Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > There was no indication he’d be considered a couch-fucker. How could there have been?! It’s utterly insane! I just want to chime in that I like the ring that “Filthy Couch Fucker” has, and that’s what I’ve been using. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/863 "2024-07-27T11:59:07Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > I’m a little scared that Trump will get rid of Vance and replace him with Haley Given all the crap about Harris being a DEI candidate, and Vance’s wife being proof he’s not really a white supremacist, I think putting Haley on the ticket would be suicide. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/864 "2024-07-27T15:50:25Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > Given all the crap about Harris being a DEI candidate, and Vance’s wife being proof he’s not really a white supremacist, I think putting Haley on the ticket would be suicide. Maybe! But right now it’s a slow death from consumption. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/865 "2024-07-27T15:56:33Z")
I saw an [OpEd](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/21/opinion/jd-vance-kamala-harris.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-U0.gwUB.jq4kFDAMWNh3&smid=url-share) pointing out that Vance was.a DEI admission to Yale Law School. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/866 "2024-07-27T19:37:29Z")
JD Vance, of whom many people are saying that “JD” is short for “Jorkin’ DaPeanus”, expressed pro-BLM and pro-reparations sentiments in 2014. > **['I hate the police': J.D. Vance railed at cops in bombshell email release...](https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-emails/)** > > At the same time the Donald Trump is flooding his Truth Social account with sketchy reports that Vice President Kamala Harris wanted to defund the police — when she was questioning where the funding should go — comes news from the New York Times that... ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/867 "2024-07-27T19:38:34Z")
How about that vp choice? JD Vance? He’d do better with _Vivian_ Vance! Thank you, thank you. Watch this space for more topical political humor. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/868 "2024-07-27T19:43:13Z")
[![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GTbL6qhaAAAueaF?format=png&name=small) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GTbL6qhaAAAueaF?format=png&name=small) ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/869 "2024-07-27T20:02:13Z")
And yet they’ll both dump him for the head of lettuce with googly eyes “More staying power.” ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/870 "2024-07-27T20:17:32Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I saw an [OpEd](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/21/opinion/jd-vance-kamala-harris.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-U0.gwUB.jq4kFDAMWNh3&smid=url-share) pointing out that Vance was.a DEI admission to Yale Law School. Trump said in advance that he was going to [pick a woman to replace RBG](https://www.pennlive.com/politics/2024/07/electoral-college-counts-are-everything-expect-maybe-when-picking-a-running-mate.html). If DEI is some kind of synonym for affirmative action, that makes Barrett, by the GOP labeling system, a DEI pick. I wish it was otherwise, but [Biden did the same with Harris](https://time.com/5803677/joe-biden-woman-vice-president/). These were both quota situations - one vacancy, quota of one from the preferred group. When I went to a semi-fancy college in the 1970’s, I think I did hear of a rural admissions preference. Whether Yale Law School has it now, I do not know. But there’s no evidence of a quota situation with Vance, or that he was in any non-academically-related preference group. And even if he was in such a group, he had to compete against others not in his preferred group. As for your link saying that “I have no idea what kind of grades or scores Vance had,” he [graduated Summa cum Laude](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/15/trump-vp-announcement-jd-vance/74414192007/), (and in just two years), which does give an idea. In my value system, it is wrong to label someone as a DEI or AA pick. For all I know, all three would have been chosen without these sorts of preferences. I hope Harris realizes Joe was wrong and does not do the same to her own appointees. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/871 "2024-07-27T20:24:09Z")
Nothing to see here, just shopping for guns at the Nazi booth. > ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/872 "2024-07-27T20:26:14Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > Trump said in advance that he was going to [pick a woman to replace RBG](https://www.pennlive.com/politics/2024/07/electoral-college-counts-are-everything-expect-maybe-when-picking-a-running-mate.html). If DEI is some kind of synonym for affirmative action, that makes Barrett a DEI pick. > > I wish it was otherwise, but [Biden did the same with Harris](https://time.com/5803677/joe-biden-woman-vice-president/). [And Jackson.](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/retiring-us-justice-breyer-appear-with-biden-white-house-2022-01-27/) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/873 "2024-07-27T20:28:30Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Nothing to see here, just shopping for guns at the Nazi booth. TBF, those are all antiques. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/874 "2024-07-27T20:29:01Z")
And so’s Trump! (rim shot) ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/875 "2024-07-27T20:29:41Z")
Nazi? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/876 "2024-07-27T20:31:40Z")
never mind ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/877 "2024-07-27T20:51:08Z")
Zoom in on the table the guy in the black shirt is sitting in front of. It’s covered in Nazi memorabilia. Any kind of proper vetting would have found this pic and told him to delete it, but there it is. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/878 "2024-07-27T20:58:01Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Zoom in on the table the guy in the black shirt is sitting in front of. It’s covered in Nazi memorabilia. There is no way to “zoom in”, and yeah so? It is a gun show, people sell WW2 memorabilia. And, more importantly, Vance isnt looking at that stuff, or even close to is. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/879 "2024-07-27T21:09:48Z")
Moderating: > [@Smapti](#): > > Zoom in on the table the guy in the black shirt is sitting in front of. It’s covered in Nazi memorabilia. Any kind of proper vetting would have found this pic and told him to delete it, but there it is. > [@DrDeth](#): > > There is no way to “zoom in”, and yeah so? It is a gun show, people sell WW2 memorabilia. And, more importantly, Vance isnt looking at that stuff, or even close to is. A hijack in the making. Drop it now, both. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2024, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/880 "2024-07-28T00:08:03Z")
Saw that. Whoa boy… ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2024, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/881 "2024-07-28T01:23:40Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > You can’t really blame him, though. We all understand the thrill of the chaise. He could have gone on Tinder, but he was a la-z-boy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511.md?page=43) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511.md?page=45)