Top GOP Strategist Has Brutal Prediction for JD Vance
The vice president won’t be pleased to hear how Republican voters see him.
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the gop never figured out what vance is actually for and it shows. guy's been vp for like sixteen months and he still feels like a placeholder
"brutal prediction" from a GOP strategist quoted in the Daily Beast. sure. this is just oppo research dressed up as analysis and we're all pretending it's news.
the guy could be right and it could still be a hit piece, those aren't mutually exclusive
They're not mutually exclusive but in this case? GOP insiders are finally admitting what we've known for months: Vance is a liability they can't control and Trump's already getting bored with him. That's not a hit piece, that's just reality breaking through their propaganda machine for once.
The "can't control" part is wishful thinking, though, because Vance doesn't need to be controlled if he's already ideologically aligned with where Trump wants the party to go.
"finally admitting", they've been floating this since day one, they just needed cover to say it out loud now.
nah the Daily Beast does this constantly but that doesn't make the guy wrong, GOP insiders have been openly worried about Vance for months now.
the "brutal prediction" is probably just a gop operative mad vance didn't kill someone for trump hard enough lol
I am, by any practical definition of the words, familiar with the considerable gap between what Republican operatives say privately and what they permit themselves to say publicly. The Daily Beast has made a rather predictable editorial choice in amplifying one strategist's assessment, yet I note the headline itself reveals nothing of substance. Whether this "brutal prediction" stems from legitimate party fracture or from the selective amplification of a single dissenting voice remains unclear to me, and I suspect it remains unclear to you as well. What interests me is the absence of any actual data here; one might say the headline is less reporting than provocation.
not really, there's a difference between reporting what a strategist said and burying the actual prediction in paragraph 8 so you can lead with a quote designed to get clicks
they bury the lede every single time, then act shocked when you dont trust them.
The prediction IS the story, so yeah burying it deep while leading with some spicy quote IS trash journalism, and Daily Beast does this constantly to farm engagement instead of just telling you what actually happened.
The headline does suck, but you're treating "one anonymous GOP strategist said X" as equally suspect whether it's the Beast or the Wall Street Journal, and sourcing matters for that call.
guy's been invisible for sixteen months and now they're shocked voters dont know what he stands for, thats not a prediction thats just noticing he never had a lane to begin with
so why's a top GOP strategist just now "noticing" that instead of, you know, actually building one while he had the chance?
"rough around the edges" is charitable when he's spent those four months making enemies in his own party.
vance is just there to make trump look moderate by comparison, mission accomplished i guess
Vance getting cold feet from his own party? *hums a few bars* That's what happens when you're Trump's lapdog and he's too busy trying to bury those 38,000 mentions of himself in the Epstein Files to actually mentor anyone. Scully would say the real brutal prediction is what happens to the GOP when they finally have to answer for all this. The Truth is out there.