Schumer calls on Trump to pick new running mate, claims Vance is 'best thing he's ever done for Democrats'

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Sunday said former President Trump should swap out his "incredibly bad choice" of Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, as his running mate.

During an appearance on CBS’s "Face the Nation," Schumer was discussing the upcoming presidential election when he decided to address "the addition of JD Vance" to the GOP ticket.

"It’s an incredibly bad choice," Schumer said. "I think Donald Trump, I know him, and he's probably sitting and watching the TV, and every day, Vance, it comes out Vance has done something more extreme, more weird, more erratic. Vance seems to be more erratic and more extreme than President Trump."

"And I'll bet President Trump is sitting there scratching his head and wondering, ‘Why did I pick this guy?’ The choice may be one of the best things he ever did for Democrats," Schumer said.

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Referring to Trump, the former president and 2024 Republican presidential nominee, Schumer said "the president has about 10 days – 10 days before the Ohio ballot is locked in."

"And he has a choice: does he keep Vance on the ticket?" Schumer said. "He already has a whole lot of baggage, he's probably going to be more baggage over the weeks because we'll hear more things about him, or does he pick someone new? What's his choice?"

The left has gone after Vance in recent days over a 2021 interview in which the Ohio senator appeared to disparage "childless cat ladies" in the Democratic Party.

"We are effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they