Chuck Schumer likes to think that he’s a savvy political operator.
But he bit off more than he could chew with his latest attack.
And Chuck Schumer picked one fight with J.D. Vance that will backfire in the worst way.
Chuck Schumer and Democrats tell GOP to dump J.D. Vance
U.S. Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) has faced an avalanche of attacks from Democrats and their media allies since he became former President Donald Trump’s running mate.
He’s taking most of the fire from the Left because they’re trying to define, drive up his negatives, and turn him into an albatross for the GOP ticket.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) jubilantly told CBS News’ Face the Nation that the GOP made a mistake with Vance.
“The addition of J.D. Vance to this ticket — it’s incredibly a bad choice,” Schumer said. “Every day, it comes out Vance has done something more extreme, more weird, more erratic.”
Democrats are going to Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 playbook of calling Trump “not normal” by labeling Vance as “weird.”
“I’ll bet President Trump is sitting there scratching his head and wondering, why did I pick this guy?” Schumer stated. “The choice may be one of the best things he ever did for Democrats.”
Democrats and the GOP establishment are trying to push a false narrative that picking Vance was a mistake by Trump.
Never-Trump pollster says Vance is a good pick
Republicans should always be suspicious when Chuck Schumer publicly says they did something to benefit Democrats.
Longtime GOP pollster Frank Luntz – a strident Never-Trumper – dismissed the idea that Vance was a bad choice for Trump’s running mate on CNN’s Inside Politics.
He pointed to Vance’s appeal with “paycheck to paycheck voters” who are going to be a crucial slice of the electorate this election.
“He chose to double down,” Luntz said. “And J.D. Vance comes from the background that Trump’s focusing on, so he’s credible. And he’s got the language because this is how he grew up.”
Vance grew up in a tough working-class household in Middletown, Ohio, and spent summers with his grandparents in Eastern Kentucky.
Luntz said this made Vance an effective messenger to voters who are struggling in the Biden economy.
“To me, the most important segment of the population, the one that makes or breaks, are these paycheck-to-paycheck voters, people who have jobs, they’ve been working, they may not be college graduates and they’re struggling,” Luntz explained. “And it represents one-fourth of the American electorate.”
He said that if these voters swing heavily toward Trump in the election, he would return to the White House.
“J.D. Vance appeals to them because . . . it’s who he was,” Luntz stated. “It’s not a segment we talk about. It’s not a segment we see. I get them in focus groups because I go out to these states, but they are really suffering.”
“The economy is not doing well for them,” Luntz continued. “These are not shareholders, these are not people who have a cushion. If they get fired or one check doesn’t work, they could lose their homes, they could lose their cars.”
The road to the White House runs through the Rust Belt states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
J.D. Vance can be an effective messenger to working-class voters in these states who are being left behind in the awful Biden economy.
