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Former President Donald Trump could have picked a much better candidate for vice president than Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, Trump’s former communications director said.
talk CNN Anthony Scaramucci said Thursday that making Nikki Haley his running mate would give Trump a better chance of beating Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Vance is not doing a great job. He knows it and we know it,” Scaramucci said.
“But this was a really bad decision on his part. If he had picked someone like Nikki Haley, for example, it would have really put him in a better position to run against Vice President Harris,” Scaramucci added.
Scaramucci also assesses Vance as being “very boring” and “not living up to expectations.”
Trump has endorsed a running mate. “Fox and Friends” InterviewTrump was asked if he still “supports J.D. Vance 100 percent.”
Trump responded that Vance was “doing a great job” and was “very well-received.”
But CNN data reporter Harry Enten Reports Vance is the first vice presidential candidate since 1980 to receive a net negative favorability rating after a party convention.
Trump could still technically replace Vance, but it’s the first time a candidate has done so since 1972, when Democratic nominee George McGovern dropped his running mate, Sen. Thomas Eagleton of Missouri, after just 18 days of campaigning together.
Haley, a former governor of South Carolina who served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under Trump, ran against Trump for the Republican presidential nomination but dropped out of the race after Super Tuesday.
In a post on Truth Social in May, Trump dismissed her as a possible running mate.
“Although Nikki Haley is not a running mate, I wish her the best of luck!” he wrote.
Haley told him ‘Strong support’ at the Republican National Convention earlier this month.
Representatives for Haley and the Trump-Vance campaign did not immediately respond to Business Insider’s requests for comment sent outside regular business hours.