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Yeah, but did Trump really need any help locking up that vote? It's not like they were going to flock over to Democrats anytime soon. He's just doubling down on demographics that were already going for him anyways. He needed a stable Pence figure that could convince "on the fence" voters that there was still going to be an adult in the room, or just somebody who is anti-Israel or supports Palestine, that probably would've caused the most chaos among Democrats. They'd disagree on everything else, but hey, this person is against genocide in Israel, let's vote for them.
Anyone stable enough to be that figure saw what his cult wanted to do to Pence and wouldn't want to be his running mate.
I think the only anti-Israel person Trump would be able to get would be a literal Nazi, so I don't know if that would have changed anything.
I do think that there's a lot of apathy among the incel crowd though. Yeah they might support Trump as a strong man, but that doesn't mean they're willing to expend the energy to go outside and vote for him. I think the idea is that Vance is uh, energizing? that movement with all of his incredibly pro-natal talk. Vance feels pretty close to saying he wants women to just be breeding stock, and that's something incels would vote for.
I can't really play devil's advocate beyond that, it feels too yucky trying to rationalize it. For all we know he was just the name Trump thought of on the day.
Yeah, we can't discount the hetero-sectionals of this country. They'll take women as breeding stock, but until that day comes, they'll come on IKEA's in-stock.