The GOP needs to convince voters that Donald Trump and JD Vance are regular guys, and, manifestly, they are not.

It would be strange for Democrats to attack the Republican presidential ticket for being “weird” if it weren’t true. But those men are getting weirder by the day.

Former president Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance (Ohio), is off to a wobbly start. A Harris 2024 campaign email sent on Friday was headlined, “JD Vance Is a Creep (Who Wants to Ban Abortion Nationwide).” The statement continued, “JD Vance is weird. Voters know it – Vance is the most unpopular VP pick in decades.”

It was bad enough when footage resurfaced of a 2021 interview in which Vance called Democrats “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made.” Things got worse last week when Vance offered a non-apology, blaming “people” for “focusing so much on the sarcasm and not on the substance of what I actually said.”

Uh, okay, but that doesn’t help at all. The substance — which Vance said he stands by — is asserting that adults without children do not deserve an equal say  in the nation’s affairs. Another unearthed clip of Vance showed him arguing that parents, when they vote, should be able to cast an extra ballot for each child in their family who is under voting age. He didn’t take that back, either, going only so far as to claim it was a “thought experiment” and not a firm policy position.

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      • @TrickDacy
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        11 month ago

        Did you delete this because you realized you’re wrong or lying wasn’t worth it?

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          11 month ago

          Wrong guy. Surprised anyone saw it, I deleted it within seconds.

          • @TrickDacy
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            11 month ago

            Got it. Yeah I never said anything like that. I think we should talk more about Trump’s fascist statements if anything. In my client it still shows deleted comments, you just have to click an extra time to see the content.

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              11 month ago

              If I knew that was an option I’d have edited it first.

    • @TrickDacy
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      -71 month ago

      Yeah I’ve never been outside before because I think the left should be better than this shit. I probably have never seen a woman naked too or something right

      • @putainsdetoiles
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        41 month ago

        The right should be better than this shit, too, but here we are. Until the truth matters to them again, you have to attack them in ways that will actually work.