Everyone hates JD Vance. So why is Trump's campaign thrilled with him?

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance is perhaps best known for appearing incapable of normal human behavior, valuing women by how many babies they crank out, and the endless well of deplorable things he says on podcasts. And yet Donald Trump and his campaign are apparently so thrilled with Vance that they intend to put him out in the public eye even more.

As The Bulwark reports on Friday:

In all, since Trump picked him 52 days ago, Vance has conducted 91 separate media interviews in 23 cities across 11 states.

And in the coming days, he is expected to kick it up a notch with a swing-state bus tour where, advisers say, he’ll try to remain accessible to the media as a means of drawing a sharp contrast with the press-averse Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

This certainly seems like an extension of the all-publicity-is-good-publicity theory that has been the primary driver of Trump’s life. Does it really matter that Vance doesn’t know how to order a doughnut, if 100 million Americans watch him fail?