Shortly after Donald Trump selected J.D. Vance to be his running mate in the 2024 election, CNN's Van Jones explained why the choice was a frightening one.
There was a long line of men willing to embarrass themselves by groveling to be Donald Trump's VP choice. But it wasn't Tim Scott or Marco Rubio or Doug Burgham who ended up getting the nod, it was Vance, once a fierce critic of
During a panel discussion on CNN, Jonah Goldberg opined on the pick:
"I’ve said it a bunch of times on air that the more the Trump team thinks he’s going to win, the more Vance his chances improve, because he’s not a campaign pick. He’s a governing pick to put in much more serious MAGA people in all of those positions in government that, you know, like Mike Pence did a lot of good work doing. And that spells a real change for the Republican Party going forward. If that is the case."
Jones then weighed in, "This is a scary dude. Scary dude, because, if you’re hoping that, after this near-death experience, we’re going to have a kumbaya convention. This is not a kumbaya pick. And so, this would signal that Donald Trump is planning on doing a lot of hard governing."
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The pundit continued, "He’s got somebody in there who’s a pit bull. He’s an attack dog. He went to law school. He’s going to be in there making a whole bunch of stuff happen. So if you’re worried about the Project 2025 and all type of stuff, this is a guy that’s going to really keep you up at night."