Inside the GOP meltdown over JD Vance: 'Unforced errors'

Sen. JD Vance has been dragging down the Republican presidential ticket since Donald Trump tapped him as his running mate, and it’s getting so bad for team GOP that some Republicans are speculating that Trump may dump Vance. However, it isn’t that easy: Vance would have to choose to leave the ticket.

That scenario would be lose-lose for Trump and Vance. The former would have to admit he made a colossal mistake, and the latter would end up on the damaged-goods table, with a dim political future after he’d been labeled too weird for this Republican Party.

But that hasn’t stopped congressional Republicans—who need a strong top of ticket to keep the House and take the Senate—from talking about the mistake Trump made.

“Some Republicans express buyer's remorse over Vance VP pick,” Axios reported last week. An anonymous House Republican told the outlet that the “road got a lot harder. He was the only pick that wasn't the safe pick. And I think everyone has now realized that."

"On the whole, the feeling is: doesn't add much," another House Republican said. "And now with Kamala at the top, the capacity to have expanded the map a little bit ... would have been much more beneficial."