Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) tried to assault Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday ― however his critics mentioned it sounded extra like an argument in opposition to Donald Trump as a substitute.
Vance, who’s Trump’s operating mate, mentioned the election isn’t nearly points however character.
“An important factor just isn’t that we agree on 100% of the problems, it’s that we now have an individual of character and braveness beneath hearth within the Oval Workplace,” he mentioned as he recounted Trump surviving two assassination makes an attempt.
He in contrast that to Harris, who he referred to as “a lady who’s so afraid of the American media ― the pleasant media ― that she received’t even do an interview.”
Harris was truly doing an interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle at across the identical time Vance was talking.
Vance has prior to now slammed Trump over character and different points.
“I trip between pondering Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that dangerous (and would possibly even show helpful) or that he’s America’s Hitler,” he wrote to a buddy in 2016.
In a 2016 piece for The Atlantic, he referred to as Trump “cultural heroin.”
He told NPR that very same 12 months that he couldn’t “abdomen” Trump.
“I believe that he’s noxious and is main the white working class to a really darkish place,” Vance mentioned.
Since then, he’s finished a 180 on Trump and has now joined him with demeaning assaults on girls, xenophobic lies about immigrants, and outright hypocrisy.
Critics stepped up with some reminders:
