JD Vance briskly marched up to Air Force 2, Kamala Harris’ plane, planning to give political reporters a show as he confronted the vice president uninvited on Wednesday. His power-play dreams, like most of his chaotic veep run, were immediately thwarted once he realized Harris was not present. “I just wanted to check out my future plane,” Vance told campaign reporters gathered on the tarmac in Wisconsin.
It’s content, it’s eyeballs. People devoting thought cycles to him. Like we’re doing now, reading an article about it, talking about it. Probably still a net loss in terms of public opinion, but for his supporters they probably think it’s bad ass.
His supporters are at minimum ruthlessly trying to convince themselves it was badass