Will Kamala Harris's VP Pick Get The Same Treatment As JD Vance?

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On "Forbes Newsroom," DGA Senior Adviser Chris Cillizza spoke about Sen. JD Vance's (R-OH) rollout as a running mate, and whether Vice President Kamala Harris's selection could experience the same thing.

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00:00And J.D. Vance has faced some tough questions about past comments he's made about women in particular.

00:07Do you think that her VP pick is going to have the same media experience as him,

00:13or they've learned lessons from the Republicans' somewhat sloppy rollout of their vice presidential nominee?

00:20Yeah, I mean, Democrats certainly hope that this person doesn't have the same rollout as J.D. Vance.

00:25I mean, Rocky would be a kind way to describe that.

00:28The thing I didn't understand with Vance, and why I always thought that Doug Burgum, the governor of North Dakota, was a better pick for Trump,

00:34is that, look, Vance got elected to the Senate in 2022, but he was a public figure for a very long time before that,

00:40largely due to his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.

00:42So he had given zillions of interviews and gone on podcasts.

00:47As someone who talks a lot for a living, you too, there's a lot of stuff out there.

00:56People can say to me, like, when you worked for the Washington Post in 2014, you said this.

01:00I'm like, man, that was like a decade ago, but OK.

01:03So that's the same problem that J.D. Vance has in some ways.

01:06There's just a lot of stuff of him talking, and he is sort of a provocateur, or at least he was sort of a provocateur, you know, a cultural critic.

01:15So he was sort of playing that role, but that is not the role that you want as a VP.

01:21And I think that's why that rollout has been rocky.

Will Kamala Harris's VP Pick Get The Same Treatment As JD Vance?

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