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From Fox News: MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said one of the things she got wrong in 2024 was thinking Americans would be more “unnerved” by Republican Vice President-elect JD Vance.
“I thought people would be more unnerved by JD Vance,” Maddow told news site, Semafor, which rounded up dozens of retrospectives from media figures across the political spectrum, adding, “Less the cat lady thing and more the ‘Americans [are] going to have to get over dictatorphobia’ Mencius Moldbug’ thing,” referring to the pseudonym for blogger Curtis Yarvin, whom Vance has followed for years.
Donald Trump’s selection of Vance as his running mate was greeted with scorn in the progressive media, and he was derided in the press as a drag on the ticket. However, Vance’s skillful showings in combative interviews soon earned him a reputation as one of Trump’s best surrogates, and he was also widely considered the winner of the only vice-presidential debate with Democratic counterpart Tim Walz.
Vance, 40, has achieved one of the fastest political rises in American history, as it was less than three years ago when he joined a crowded Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat, and then not only won the primary but won in the general election.
Now, in just three weeks he will become in the third-youngest ever vice president of the United States, and is already being viewed as a front-runner for president in 2028.
Below is Maddow’s reaction when Trump announced Vance would be his running mate in July:
MSDNC is not handling the JD Vance VP pick well:
Rachel Maddow: “JD Vance I think widely considered to be the most radical choice.”
Claire McCaskill “The only person who was more excited than JD Vance was Vladimir Putin. They dropped balloons from the sky. JD Vance has said he… pic.twitter.com/B9ZzuES8eQ— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) July 16, 2024
We asked 50 of the most interesting and notable people in media/news what they were wrong about in 2024 https://t.co/2tvvI6jS3A
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) December 30, 2024
Maddow on what she got wrong in 2024: I thought JD Vance would frighten more people https://t.co/mBsdwWp7hp
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 30, 2024
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