One of the talking heads who write for Politico Magazine was impressed enough by J. D. Vance’s winning performance in the debate against Tim Walz to write an article (behind paywall) calling it:
The First Debate of 2028
Here is the abstract they’re willing for us non-payers to see.
J. D. Vance's debate performance may not have done much to help Trump--but it set him up as a top contender next time around.
We’ll see if Vance helped Trump. I expect he did by showing Walz to be a doofus whose selection reflects badly on Harris. It’s tough for a VP to push somebody up, but Vance pulled Harris down, which has much the same net effect in a de facto two party system.
Consciously or otherwise, Harris has made the same sort of VP choice Biden did. “Knucklehead” Walz would be so lame as VP you’d pray for Harris to stay healthy.
I’m imagining a spiral of less and less able people as Democrat candidates until we end up with someone off the short bus with an IQ of 40. That right there would be some serious inclusiveness.
