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Vance has proved an absolutely terrible pick for Trump so far. It's completely derailed his campaign and given the Democrats multiple new non-doomsday attack lines which they desperately needed. If Harris actually manages to win the presidency against all odds, people will look back to the Vance selection as the moment when Trump and MAGA started celebrating before they'd crossed the finish line.
It's sort of baffling why he picked Vance - what exactly does he bring to the table? All the polling I've seen suggest Republicans don't really like him, and that's been Trump's game to just get his supporters more excited...
Pence made sense, because he brought a segment that Trump has no connection to
Hubris. They were up in the polls at the time and didn't think they needed to expand their appeal, so they caved and took Thiel's guy.