Trump accused of hanging J.D. Vance out to dry as he hunkers down in Mar-a-Lago

On Thursday's MSNBC's "Morning Joe" more than one panelist questioned why Donald Trump is hiding out in Mar-a-Lago with only one campaign appearance scheduled this week while sending his running mate out to "stalk" Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), on the campaign trail.

Speaking with host Mika Brzezinski, the Washington Post's Jackie Alemany went a step further and accused the former president of putting Sen. J.D. Vance in an untenable position which has led to a series of awkward press conferences and a stunt involving Harris' plane, which ended up contributing to the accusations that the Ohio Republican is "weird."

As Alemany explained, Trump has done little to bolster Vance's embattled image with the conservative voters they both need to win in November.

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"The contrast really could not be more dramatic and jarring right now, and it's some incredible reporting you read from my colleagues Josh Dawsey and Michael Scherer about the dark hole that Donald Trump finds himself in weeks after a convention where a lot of Republicans thought they had locked this up and that there was really no world in which Joe Biden would do the hard thing and pass the torch to Kamala Harris."

Calling the changing of the guard in the Democratic Party "... a seamless transition," she added, "We've all seen the Tim Walz helping Kamala Harris put together these Adele-esque concerts. Again, a very stark contrast to these grievance fests we've seen so far."

"You have J.D. Vance with a boss who has not even been able to give him really anything more than milquetoast statements of endorsements — you know, saying on the NABJ stage last week, after saying a slew of pretty inflammatory and offensive comments about Harris, that it didn't matter that J.D. Vance was his VP pick at the end of the day because the VP pick doesn't matter. "

"So this is a campaign that is clearly struggling," she elaborated.

"You have his allies speaking on the record. Lindsey Graham saying that the president really needs to sort of get, the former president really needs to get his act together here and, meanwhile, you see Walz and Harris forging ahead and running."

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