Donald Trump recently raged at a journalist during a lengthy public meltdown that was billed as a "press conference."
The reporter had correctly noted, "You have not had a public campaign event for nearly a week now."
Last week's hastily assembled press conference was Trump's attempt to fake "campaigning" without actually leaving his house.
As Joe Scarborough noted on MSNBC the morning after, "his people just don't want him to go out and give speeches.
Someone casually tuning in would possibly think that the Republicans, following the Democrats' lead, had dumped their elderly candidate for someone younger.
Vance is annoying, but he can speak in complete sentences, largely avoiding all talk of electrocution sharks and Hannibal Lecter.
If Vance were witty and charming and capable of drawing audiences larger than a bowling team, Trump would start feeling envious. »