The Most Important Political Story Last Week Was Not The Cats - It Was JD Vance On The 2020 Election

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : Trump passing over the likes of Gov. Doug Burgum, Nikki Haley, and even Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) to choose Vance as a running mate made it very clear how he will staff his second term.
38% : What would have happened next would be anyone's guess, but it almost certainly would not have ended in the majority of the country accepting either candidate as president - effectively ending democratic legitimacy in the U.S.Critics of Trump, especially those who served in his first administration, have long warned that a second Trump term would be unmoored from the safeguards that kept him from indulging in his worst impulses.
35% : Trump's second administration will not be made up of veteran GOP figures like Barr, but instead of political newcomers born out of the MAGA movement, whose first priority in public service is loyalty to Trump.
32% : "Those fears are personified in Vance and made all the more real and imminent by his comments last Monday, which made it abundantly clear he was chosen to replace Pence in large part because he would not push back on Trump.
25% : While many on the right have become numb to the events of January 6th and Trump's efforts to retain power, downplaying their significance and even engaging in revisionist history, Pence has remained clear-eyed about what Trump asked him to do.
16% : Unfortunately, memes about eating cats and rumors about Trump possibly having an affair with conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer are shinier distractions that grab more eyeballs.
14% : Vance, a former fierce critic of the former president, has long pushed the roundly debunked claim that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump -- who in return helped get Vance elected to the U.S. Senate in 2022.
3% : "The clip went viral and made headlines as Vance effectively said he would not have certified the election and would have asked states to replace the electors won by Joe Biden with electors for Trump, the crux of the so-called "fake elector" scheme.

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