Eugene Robinson on J.D. Vance: Is He a Good Enough Politician To Get Elected to the U.S. Senate?

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ROBINSON: "Yeah, this is a — as Molly said, at least he puts the cynicism right there in front and just owns it in a kind of weird way. And it should shock us, I guess, but not surprise us. He just says, this is the price of being a Republican candidate for anything these days, is that you have to bend the knee to Donald Trump. So he’s bending the knee to Trump. My question, and it’s — you know, my question amplified by this interview and other things is, how good a politician really is JD Vance? And I guess we’ll see as he tries to win the Senate seat. But I question whether he’s anywhere near as good a politician as he is an effective writer. I thought 'Hillbilly Eulogy' was an effective book, I frankly thought it was more about his own family’s dysfunction than anything else, but he wrote powerfully about that. But is he a good enough politician to get elected to the U.S. Senate? I think the jury is very much out on that."