All right now to the Republican campaign and the first day of the

Party's convention right here in Milwaukee. And our Politics Monday team is here

with us. That's Amy Walter of the Cook political report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of

NPR and we should say that the house band is back on stage delegates are taking to the

floor we could have some background music for this conversation. There we go on that

note Amy kick us off here the big news of the day, obviously, the selection of

JD Vance as former President Trump's running mate.

What do you make about?

What does he bring to the ticket here?

Yeah, I mean, I think when the Biden campaign made clear the other week that they believed

that the easiest path for them to win the Electoral College was through the blue wall.

I think picking JD vans in that by picking

JD vans I think the Trump campaign is saying okay you want to fight for the

blue wall. We'll pick a blue wall candidate somebody who grew up in poverty in Ohio, somebody

couldn't have an appeal with his populist message to those voters in that area of

the country, try to win over some of those voters. He did not pick

someone though who was going to try to appeal maybe to suburban women right?

This was really very much leaning in on the MAGA message.

And he is essentially saying that with the pick of Vance

that the sort of MAGA movement is exactly what he wants to campaign on for this

next four years. He's not going to suddenly shift to become more of a sort of traditional Republican in the free Trump era.

And Tim, you got to imagine the Biden team is getting their opposition research together

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