Former White House Director of Communications Anthony Scaramucci warned on Thursday it is “just a question of how many Scaramuccis” Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance would last on the ticket with former President Donald Trump due to his “strange” and “very dull” demeanor
Speaking to CNN host Kaitlan Collins about Trump’s decision to pick Vance as his running mate, Scaramucci said:
He didn’t go with Nikki Haley. When he loses the election and they do the post-obituary of the election and they are in the morgue looking at the body of the lost election, they’ll say, “Wow, that was a terrible mistake not to go with Nikki Haley. He could have appealed to a broader base of people, to women, to more independents.” But he didn’t. He went hard MAGA, he went with a strange guy that’s very dull on stage, and you know, Trump hates that. You covered him in the White House, I worked with him in the White House, there’s nothing that Trump hates more than dull people, and you know, JD, I think, stands for Just Dull.
On Vance’s performance as Trump’s running mate thus far, Scaramucci – who famously lasted just 10 days as Trump’s communications director – argued:
He is not doing well on the stump for Donald Trump. He’s hurting him, the memes on social
media are killing him, the net negatives are terrible for the vice president. The vice president on the Trump campaign is supposed to get out of the way, and he has become an issue for Donald Trump. So he could have picked Nikki Haley, or he could have picked somebody, but Trump is such a narcissist he didn’t want anybody taking credit for his electoral success. He didn’t want somebody on CNN saying, “Yeah, he won that and Nikki Haley helped him,” so he picked JD Vance and now he’s got to live, at least for now, with this millstone on his neck. I mean, he may or may not make it to November 5th, JD Vance.
“You think Trump could maybe replace him?” asked Collins, to which Scaramucci replied, “I do. Yes.”
He concluded, “I mean, that’s what The Apprentice is all about, Kaitlan. Of course, I’ve had that experience with Donald Trump. I do think he could. It’s just a question of how many Scaramuccis JD is going to last.”
According to polls, Vance is one of the least popular vice presidential nominees in history, with a favorability rating of -6.
Vance also received heavy backlash this week over comments he made in 2021 criticizing “childless cat ladies” like Vice President Kamala Harris.
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