“Several wondered if Trump ignored his professional political advisers and listened instead to his son, Donald Trump Jr., and conservative media celebrity Tucker Carlson in picking Vance.
“I would assume he’s not real happy,” one Republican senator said of how Trump is handling the barrage of negative publicity that’s hit his running mate over the past ten days.
“I don’t think Trump likes any discomfort – he can create discomfort himself — but he doesn’t like external discomfort coming in and JD’s struggling. I would assume he’s not real happy,” they added.”