Opinion: You Won’t Like Who JD Vance Will Copy at Tonight’s Debate

Look for candidate JD Vance to come out swinging at Tuesday’s vice presidential debate against Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Odds are good that Vance will go for the Trumpian emotional trifecta: playing the victim, spewing anger, and attacking women and immigrants.

While not everyone is charmed by righteous rage, Donald Trump is the “audience of one” who needs to hear his chosen candidate mimic the boss. There’s precedent for this behavior from fellow Yale Law School graduate, Brett Kavanaugh.

Let’s travel back to 2018 when then-president Donald Trump nominated then-DC Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. All went smoothly until Dr. Christine Blasey Ford accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers. This was not the only accusation of sexual assault against Kavanaugh, all of which he denied.

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