The aftermath of the 2024 election cycle has brought along with it some fascinating analyses and dissections of what went right and what went wrong for both presidential campaigns – and the media’s coverage of all of it.
Obviously, more went right for the Trump-Vance campaign and more went wrong for the Harris-Walz campaign judging not just by the final results but also by how President-Elect Donald Trump is being viewed at this point as the de facto president, dominating the news cycle with decisions being made including nominations for various administration positions.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, on the other hand, both seem to be content with keeping their profiles pretty low outside of Biden doing some pretty despicable things like commuting the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates to life without parole.
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Vice President-Elect JD Vance, too, continues to impress, demonstrating in the process that a bright future is ahead for the GOP on multiple fronts provided the ship is steered in the right direction (though there will undoubtedly be hiccups along the way).
And on that front, recently, we learned a little more as to why Trump picked Vance in the first place. Two top Trump campaign officials, co-campaign manager Chris LaCivita and Trump polling guru Tony Fabrizio, sat down for an interview with Politico where, among other things, they revealed that Vance was a “deliberate” pick for Trump for one pretty important reason:
Politico: I’m tempted to ask you if he still would have picked JD had Kamala already been the nominee — if Biden had dropped out by the time you picked your VP, would it have been a different choice?
Fabrizio: Honestly, I don’t know. That’s an imponderable, I will tell you that by picking JD — JD was a very deliberate pick.
Politico: How so?
Fabrizio: Well, I think, one, they have a really good personal relationship. Two, I think he sees JD — and I’m not trying to put words in the president’s mouth — he kind of sees JD as the torch-carrier of MAGA. This was a generational pick. This is, “I want this movement to go forward beyond me.”
In other words, Trump read the room, understood the moment, and strategically chose Vance to carry the torch in the next presidential election cycle.
Something else shared in the interview from both of them was how their most effective ads were any ads they used where they simply let Vice President Kamala Harris speak for herself.
“Using her words. And there were a ton. In fact, there was so much, we couldn’t use all of it,” Fabrizio remarked, which tracks what we’ve been saying about Harris since Day One in how she is her own worst enemy.
In any event, as I noted before, a Trump-Vance win obviously will be good for Republicans heading into 2028. But it will also be good for the country for the next four years. And not just because Trump can make America great again but because after four dismal years with Kamala Harris in the role, Vance can finally make the vice presidency great – and respectable – again, too.
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