Ben Shapiro Says If Trump ‘Had a Time Machine,’ He Would Unselect JD Vance

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro claimed that if former President Donald Trump had a time machine, he would go back and choose someone other than Sen. JD Vance as his vice presidential running mate.

Recently, the Ohio senator has faced criticism due to past political commentary he has made on right-wing shows. In 2021, Vance appeared on Fox News for an interview with Tucker Carlson where he claimed the Democrats run the country with “ childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives.”

Vance specifically called out Vice President Kamala Harris , Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as Democrats who “don’t have a direct stake” in the future of the country.

Shapiro predicted on the latest episode of his podcast that Trump would have probably picked a Republican who could have expanded his support such as Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin :

So, J.D. Vance is the vice presidential nominee for President Trump now. If you had a time machine, if you go back two weeks, would you have picked J.D. Vance again? I doubt it. I think he probably would have picked somebody like Glenn Youngkin from Virginia in an attempt to broaden out his base. Instead, he went with J.D. Vance, feeling because he was right that at the time he had a very solid advantage in the race against Joe Biden. Well, again, JD is super smart. He also has a long history of public commentary…

I agree that our country has moved away from caring about the future because too few Americans care about having children. I totally agree with that. However, this description that J.D. Vance is using is that politically smart or is it politically damaging? Now, again, he doesn’t have a time machine. He can’t go back and undo something he said three and a half years ago.

With that said, Democrats are, of course, using this as a club with which to be Donald Trump and JD Vance. They’re trying to run up the gender gap. So one of the things to understand about this election cycle is that the gender gap is larger than it has ever been in the history of American politics, in all likelihood. Males overwhelmingly vote for Trump. Females, particularly single females, overwhelmingly vote for Biden. And so they’re going to try to find some sort of wedge to claim that all Republicans are sexist. And this is the wedge they’re using today.

Watch the clip above.