MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough on Monday slammed former President Trump for choosing Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate, predicting the choice could hurt the Trump campaign.
“I’ve never really had a good answer for this. I can understand a lot of politics, not all of it, but to some extent. But this selection of J.D. Vance, I just couldn’t understand,” Scarborough said on “Morning Joe.”
“I think this is one of the stupidest decisions ever,” he continued. “It doesn’t add anything. [Trump’s] It highlights weakness, it highlights weakness on abortion, it highlights weakness on women.”
Vance, a first-term senator who has faced criticism for his right-wing positions on issues such as abortion and LGBTQ rights and for his past attacks on President Trump, was thrust into the spotlight last week when he was nominated as the Republican vice presidential nominee.
Scarborough focused on Vance’s abortion record and how it could alienate moderate and female voters. Though he has softened his stance in recent months, Vance ran for Senate as a staunch anti-abortion fighter and once called for a nationwide abortion ban.
“If you look back at the voting patterns over the last couple of years, this could be said to be the biggest political earthquake in California since Proposition 13 in 1978,” Scarborough said, referring to the state’s major property tax reform vote.
“Abortion rights has changed the face of American politics,” he said of abortion rights. “Why would you elect someone who is a bumbling nut on that front?”
