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Palin alienated anyone vaguely in the middle, but on the other hand she had at least some particular support that she brought distinct from McCain (basically Tea Party folks that were not particularly excited by establishment republican nor McCain).
Vance doesn't have any particular support, he only gets indirect support for people who are "republican no matter what" or "MAGA all the way", but those people were already covered by Trump. Even in his own state his margin of victory was much slimmer than the other republicans that swept Ohio in 2022, and Ohio's not even a state considered to be a risk to Trump's campaign.
He was just a tremendously bad choice with no strategic benefit. The VP pick should somehow provide some coverage for demographics not hit by the presidential candidate, and Trump instead went with someone with very limited popularity that is a strict subset of people already supporting Trump.
After seeing what the cultists were going to do to Pence, and that Trump was going to allow it, no one else was interested in being his VP. The only option was a bootlicker.
While the list was certainly constrained, he did have a line of boot lickers. Perhaps none more ardent than Tim Scott.
Given how they keep want to accuse Harris of 'not being really black', maybe they would have wanted to have Tim Scott, so it's still terrible but at least it's not as completely insane as two white guys trying to gatekeep being black.
I forgot about the Tea Party, ahhh...simpler times...
True, he only brings the few techno autocrats. Though that does bring money (though some of that money, like Elon's, would have gone there anyway).
But he was picked because he'd do what Vance wouldn't and overthrow the election.
Pence, Vance, shitty Underpants...
same, same but different...
She also brought in the evangelicals because she was one of them. And she had the same false piety the other evangelical darlings have.