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J.D. Vance was announced at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee

as Donald Trump's running mate. But he's had a rocky time since being the focus of

numerous taunting memes and has the worst approval

ratings in the history of polling of vice presidential nominees. Who is he and

what is going wrong and are the Republicans getting buyers remorse.

To explain all this, I have Meredith McGraw, national political correspondent at

Politico, covering the election, an author of the new book, Trump in Exile.

Hi Meredith, how are you?

I'm great, how are you? Good. Were you in Milwaukee for the big announcement?

I was. I was in Milwaukee all week covering the RNC for Politico. So what was the appeal for Trump because I think people would often think that a running mate is somebody from a different demographic, maybe they're from a swing state, they're bringing something that the nominee is not.

That doesn't seem to apply to Vance.

You're right.

In the end, it really came down to three candidates.

And that was Senator Marco Rubio from Florida, North Dakota Governor Doug Bergam, and then

Senator JD Vance from Ohio. And they all brought different things to the table for

one Rubio speaks Spanish and could appeal to Latino and

Hispanic voters that the Trump campaign has really been trying to win over and

he has a lot of experience in the Senate and was on the Foreign Relations Committee, so it was seen as sort of a foreign policy asset in that way.

Governor Doug Bergam has a lot of business experience.

He's an executive.

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