 The biggest thing to realize from this as you're watching this and kind of digesting it is that in 2016, Donald Trump made his VP pick from a position of weakness. In 2024, he's making his VP pick from a position of strength. J.D. Vance is a strength pick. In 2016, he picked Pence because he was worried about evangelicals and he was trying to get people on board and people were skeptical of him.