On Saturday, GOP strategist Brendan Buck talked about what a poor VP pick J.D. Vance has proven to be so far, calling him worse than expected.
When Donald Trump made Vance is running mate, he thought that he was picking someone who would be blindly loyal and wouldn't take away too much attention. And now, the GOP is focused on not trying to win an election, but trying to stop the deluge of bad press about Vance.
Buck told MSNBC's Alex Witt, "If there is remorse for Vance, I have very little sympathy for that. The things that he's been getting hit on were not secrets. This was the appeal to a lot of Trump supporters, why they liked him; that he would say outrageous things and he would own the libs."
The strategist continued, "That's what you are looking for, but I think the other big part of this is that it's a very different election when they chose him, they thought they were running against [President Joe] Biden and they could just have somebody go out there and poke fun at Biden being old and it really wouldn't matter very much."
Buck closed:
"That's a terrible way to choose your VP and he's been worse than I expected him to be. Nobody likes a scold and that's what Vance has turned into and a lot of people are frankly offended by a 39-year-old man telling people how they should live their lives. I expect him to be smarter than what he has shown but it's been a rough start