Eugene Robinson: Trump and J.D. Vance Are the Weirdest Ticket that I Can Recall

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ROBINSON: “Well, the substance of what he was talking about is, like, really crazy, about how if you have kids, you ought to be able to vote more times in an election than a single person, and just all this sort of really, really weird stuff. This is — you know, this is who he is. I think this is going to keep sort of cropping up. So now we have, in Vance and Trump, one of the, like, weirdest tickets that I can recall. These are two really unusual people who say and do weird things. Trump is out talking about the, you know, shark and the boat and the battery and the late, great Hannibal Lecter, with all his weirdnesses and excentricities. And now you have J.D. Vance. And then you have this dynamic between the two of them which is going to be fascinating, because you can imagine how happy Donald Trump is to have to be explaining away the kind of odd words of his vice president presidential candidate, his running mate. And now he is going to have to explain away what the Post reported J.D. Vance said in a fundraiser about how, 'Well, gee, I don’t know, running against Kamala Harris, when they change candidates, that was a sucker punch. We have to regroup. We just don’t quite know how to run against her.' Trump is not going to like that either. So this is going to be fascinating. But it's weird."