# 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:** 48
**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 29, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/942 "2024-07-29T16:15:13Z")
> [@ShadowFacts](#): > > C’mon people, we can do better than this kind of “news.” Yup, my bad. The guy is usually better than that, but these Liberal channels can be quite clickbaity at times. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/943 "2024-07-29T17:10:23Z")
Meanwhile in New York… > Pretty sure that’s not a coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/944 "2024-07-29T17:15:07Z")
Damn, those stains. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/945 "2024-07-29T18:41:12Z")
Oooh, this is juicy! An (presumably ex) friend of Vance’s has given the NYT copies of their email correspondence from the '10s, including this tidbit: **“I hate the police. Given the number of negative experiences I’ve had in the past few years, I can’t imagine what a Black guy goes through.”** I think the Democrats should take a hard stand against this kind of extremism and make it clear to the voters that we are the party who respects our law enforcement officers. 😂 ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/946 "2024-07-29T18:42:07Z")
Should we change the name of this thread, since it seems to have become the “Screw J.D. Vance” thread? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/947 "2024-07-29T19:00:07Z")
Can anyone gift link to the NYT article about Vance’s correspondence with his friend? I read it the other day from someone else’s gift link and it was very entertaining. I think it would be a great addition to this thread. Search “vance correspondence” and it should come up. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/948 "2024-07-29T19:04:17Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > Should we change the name of this thread, since it seems to have become the “Screw J.D. Vance” thread? Honestly, this entire thing would almost make more sense with a breathtaking reveal that it’s been the “Undercover DNC Saboteur JD Vance” thread. ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/949 "2024-07-29T19:05:51Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Can anyone gift link to the NYT article about Vance’s correspondence with his friend? I read it the other day from someone else’s gift link and it was very entertaining. I think it would be a great addition to this thread. Here you go: [NY Times: 5 Excerpts From JD Vance’s Emails to a Transgender Classmate](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/27/us/jd-vance-emails-transgender-classmate-highlights.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-00.YIEp.TbkbNe4isl2f&smid=url-share) ---
**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 29, 2024, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/950 "2024-07-29T19:07:48Z")
Seriously, they went with that? LMFAO 5x! ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/951 "2024-07-29T20:08:16Z")
Not sure if this has been posted yet in this enormous thread, but J D Vance currently has the worst polling numbers of any VP pick in history … I don’t know how this is possible since Trump always surrounds himself by only “the best people” and all his choices are “perfect”! 😆 This will be fun – either he and Vance will go down in flames, or Trump will have to dump him. > **[JD Vance has the worst polling for a VP pick in history — yet MAGA doesn’t care](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jd-vance-trump-maga-republican-b2587726.html)** > > A YouGov poll shows that Trump-loving Republicans have rallied behind Trump’s VP choice, while others aren’t so sure — including those all-important Independents ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/952 "2024-07-29T20:14:21Z")
No, because as the headline says “MAGA doesn’t care.” As long as someone’s playing Grima Wormtongue to Trump’s King Theo-duhn he’l stick with Vance. Can’t be seen to make a mistake. ---
**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 29, 2024, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/953 "2024-07-29T21:08:23Z")
> [@solost](#): > > I’m thinking if he dumps Vance he goes with Stefanik. She ticks off quite a few boxes: > > - Female The only reason Trump would ever put a woman in a position of authority is because he thinks he’d have a chance to fuck her. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/954 "2024-07-29T21:15:05Z")
Didn’t he put a woman on the Supreme Court? ---
**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 29, 2024, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/955 "2024-07-29T21:15:45Z")
I’m not ruling out the possibility that he thinks ACB will sleep with him, but Trump didn’t so much pick any of his SC nominees so much as outsource it to the Heritage Foundation. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/956 "2024-07-29T21:17:43Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Didn’t he put a woman on the Supreme Court? An attractive woman, sure. ---
**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 29, 2024, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/957 "2024-07-29T21:31:03Z")
Great article about how fundamentally weird Vance is; > **[Look At These Fucking Weirdos | Defector](https://defector.com/look-at-these-fucking-weirdos)** > > What a weird week. Just eight(!) days ago, Joe Biden was the presumptive Democratic nominee, his party and the campaign were dead in the water, and its voters were begging for a miracle. Today, 99 days out from the election, the Kamala Harris... > [@](#): > > Vance—Yale Law, venture capitalist, obsessed with sex other people are having—resembles so many other vat-grown Thiel projects that have crashed and burned in previous elections upon voters getting the barest look at them and their values; Blake Masters really thought he could win over normal people by filming himself firing a gun in the desert and portraying his opponent, a literal astronaut, as a soyjak. (If you are not online enough to know what that is: Congratulations. The modern GOP’s problem is that it’s unsettlingly online.) > [@](#): > > There’s nothing inherently wrong with weirdness. I’m strange in some ways. I might bring up birds or Swedish melodic death metal in conversation. But I think you would enjoy getting a drink with me. I have opinions on light beers. We could talk about sports. I’d pick on the jukebox some things we’d both enjoy. We could be normal people, having a normal chat. Do you think there’s any chance you’d have a normal evening in a bar chatting with Trump or Vance or any of their Roman-statue-head PFP followers? Absolutely not, because their weirdness is the type of weirdness that makes them unpleasant to be around. It’s the type of weirdness that cedes Bud Light, Taylor Swift, and the NFL to the left because of all sorts of imagined grievances. And that weirdness, to a normal person, is the same sort of weirdness that would make them highly unpleasant as an omnipresence for the next four years. Do not underestimate the value of that to voters. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/958 "2024-07-29T21:43:28Z")
TIL that Vance once [said that“Indigenous Peoples’ Day’ is a fake holiday created to sow division.”](https://indianz.com/News/2024/07/15/a-fake-holiday-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-derided-indigenous-peoples-day/) He’s really going to pull in votes from all over, isn’t he? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/959 "2024-07-29T23:16:27Z")
I just thought of this myself earlier today. Actually, the couch story is the most believable out of all of them, and even if it’s true, it’s probably nothing a lot of other young boys haven’t done (GROSS!) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/960 "2024-07-29T23:17:57Z")
I’ve heard that some people are reusing their Trump/Pence signs, and covering the “PE” with a “VA.” We’ve all seen “FJB” stickers, etc. If I see a “FJV” sticker, I might buy it. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511/961 "2024-07-30T01:41:52Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Didn’t he put a woman on the Supreme Court? She promised to get rid of Roe- he would have put ANYONE there if they made that promise. trump bought the votes of the right wing Evangelicals with that- even tho apparently he has no issues with abortion. First time he actually paid off on a debt. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511.md?page=47) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-trumps-running-mate-j-d-vance-has-been-chosen/996511.md?page=49)