Ben Shapiro says “I doubt” that Donald Trump would choose JD Vance as a running mate again
Shapiro: “If you had a time machine, if you go back two weeks, would he have picked JD Vance again? I doubt it.”
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From the July 26, 2024, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): Speaking of errors that Republicans are gonna have to avoid. So, JD Vance is the vice presidential nominee for president Trump. Now, if you had a time machine, if you go back two weeks, would he have picked JD Vance again? I doubt it. I think he probably would have picked somebody like Glenn Youngkin from Virginia in an attempt to broaden out his base. Instead, he went with JD Vance feeling, because he was right that at the time, he had a very solid advantage in the race against Joe Biden. Well, again, JD is super smart. He also has a long history of public commentary. So back in 2021 -- this is the sort of hot controversy of the day from the Democrats -- back in 2021, JD Vance was appearing on Tucker Carlson's show back when Tucker's show was on Fox. And he ripped into what he called the childless cat lady culture of the Democrats, including Kamala Harris.
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SHAPIRO: Now I agree that our country has moved away from caring about the future because too few Americans care about having children. I totally agree with that. However, this description that JD Vance is using, is that politically smart or is it politically damaging? Now, again, he doesn't have a time machine. He can't go back and undo something he said now three-and-a-half years ago. With that said, Democrats are, of course, using this as a club with which to beat Donald Trump and JD Vance. They're trying to run up the gender gap. So one of the things to understand about this election cycle is that the gender gap is larger than it has ever been in the history of American politics in all likelihood. Males overwhelmingly vote for Trump. Females, particularly single females, overwhelmingly vote for Biden. And so they're going to try to find some sort of wedge to claim that all Republicans are sexist, and this is the wedge they're using today.