Opinion: Really, Who Cares About the Veepstakes?

There’s a lot of noise this week about JD Vance and Tim Walz and how both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have, in the manner of G.O.B. of Arrested Development fame, made a huge mistake.

Here’s the truth most of the media and the punditocracy don’t want you to hear: Except in the rarest of circumstances, vice presidential selections will not have any impact on voters. It’s almost all noise. And that will almost certainly be true this year, too.