Former President Donald Trump declined to say whether or not he thinks Sen. JD Vance of Ohio can be able to function vice chairman ought to they win November’s election, with Trump as an alternative saying it doesn’t matter.
“I’ve always had great respect for him but… historically, the vice president in terms of the election does not have any impact, I mean virtually any impact,” he stated Wednesday throughout a question-and-answer session with Black journalists in Chicago.
The query was requested after the panel’s hosts introduced up what they described as Vance’s quite a few “stumbles” and the “controversy” since he was publicly tapped as Trump’s operating mate. In addition they famous the latest assassination try on Trump.
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“Historically the choice of a vice president makes no difference,” he stated.
Trump cited Lyndon Johnson’s rise to the presidency after the assassination of John F. Kennedy as one “maybe” exception as to whether a vice presidential alternative issues, although he added it’s “not for vote reasons but for political reasons.”
A more moderen instance he didn’t point out is Sen. John McCain’s choose of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his operating mate throughout the 2008 presidential election. Journalist Howard Fineman wrote on the time that Palin “sent wavering Democrats, independents and moderate Republicans scurrying to Sen. Barack Obama ― even as she has failed to substantially expand Sen. John McCain’s support, even among the ranks of self-described conservatives.”
A 2010 research out of Stanford College discovered that Palin’s presence on McCain’s ticket value him almost 2 proportion factors, equating to roughly 2.1 million votes.
In the beginning of the McCain-Palin marketing campaign, most individuals surveyed stated they didn’t have a lot of an opinion of her, however because the marketing campaign progressed, almost all of these folks fashioned a damaging one, The Washington Submit beforehand reported, citing the complete research.
Voters on the time additionally expressed concern that if one thing occurred to McCain — who on the time would have been the oldest particular person elected president, at 72 ― they’d be caught with Palin.
Trump is 78. And like President Joe Biden, Trump has confronted intense scrutiny about his age.
