At any point in the next ten days, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump will announce his choice for a 2024 running mate. While we don’t yet know who it will be, we do know that the media elite will likely greet Trump’s new running mate with derision and scorn, because that’s what has faced (nearly) all Republican VP candidates since the Media Research Center began tracking political coverage in the 1980s.
These Republicans are invariably attacked as too conservative, too mean-spirited, too unqualified, too religious, too extreme, and/or too dumb. Only one vice presidential candidate, Representative Jack Kemp in 1996, avoided this predictable tidal wave of bad press. Instead, the press opted to contrast Kemp — “a nice conservative,” according to CNN — with the rest of his party, as a means to slime all other Republicans as radical and…
