Ben Shapiro
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In fact, I think a lot of the vice president's appeal is he doesn't speak directly to the donor class.
I think he's fluent enough in their language.
He spent time in Silicon Valley.
He's a lawyer from a top school.
So he can talk to them.
But I agree.
He's going to speak more to blue-collar voters and more to a populist coalition.
You raise a serious challenge.
The counterexample I would give is George H.W.
Bush.
So you get two terms of Reagan.
The Reaganites kind of hated the Bushies.
Here, at least, there's real alignment between Trump and J.D.
Vance.
The Reagan-Bush ticket was a compromise to unify the party.
The Reaganites were very, very skeptical of the Bushies.
Bush was less appealing than Reagan in almost every way.
And he was able to win as a matter of Reagan's third term.
Now, I think clearly, J.D.
being picked as the VP for a non-consecutive second term, he was being set up to be Trump's third term.