Outrage Erupts Over Black Republican Who Says Black Family Was In Better Shape During Jim Crow. He’s Right.

The big political news last night was that Donald Trump has supposedly started sending “vetting materials” and questionnaires to a variety of potential vice presidential nominees. The names include Doug Burgum (R-N.D.), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Byron Donalds (R-FL), Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), J.D. Vance (R-OH), and Tim Scott (R-S.C.). Of course, the list is subject to change, so it probably doesn’t mean much. At this stage, we have no idea what to make of it. Most of the names on the list — but not all — are rather uninspired, and a few of them would be actively bad and harmful choices.

At the same time, what we can be pretty sure of is that right now — and for the last several months — the Democratic Party has been working on ways to attack every single one of these potential nominees.