Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, said in the wake of the deadly school shooting in Georgia that the massacres are sadly a “fact of life” and offered ways to fortify schools to make them safer against gun violence.

Kamala Harris put out a statement with Vance’s comments and called for “action to keep our children safe and keep guns out of the hands of criminals.”

And it appeared to strike a nerve with team Trump that she used Vance’s comments against them.

“Kamala’s interns just released a statement pushing FAKE NEWS,” Trump War Room posted to X with its more than 2 million followers. “Watch the full video and you’ll clearly see that JD Vance does not say what they claim he said. These morons do nothing but lie every single day.”

Except Harris’ campaign shared the same video.

Here’s what Vance had to say:

“I don’t like that this is a fact of life,” he said. “But if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets. And we have got to bolster security at our schools. We’ve got to bolster security so if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children they’re not able.”

Vance said he doesn’t like the idea of his own kids going to a school with hardened security, “but that’s increasingly the reality that we live in.”

All of that was in what Harris’ campaign shared with her joint statement on the shooting with running mate Tim Walz. Vance said what team Trump said Vance didn’t say and accused the Harris campaign of distorting.

  • @RizzRustbolt
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    1610 days ago

    Do you think Trump’s “October surprise” is going to be him swapping out VP candidates?

      • KillingTimeItself
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        810 days ago

        past a certain point you’re locked in for candidacy, RFK is already experiencing this issue himself, and republicans, predictably, and wrong about it.

        • @chiliedogg
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          810 days ago

          RFK just won an ruling that kept absentee ballots from getting sent out in North Carolina because his name is on the ballots, so now the voting can’t start until the courts get everything worked out and all the ballots get reprinted if he wins the appeal.

          People are literally being kept from voting right now because of him, and that benefits Trump.

          • KillingTimeItself
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            210 days ago

            yeah, that sounds about right.

            I’m not sure how much it’ll benefit trump, aside from just delaying the vote process, RFK votes seem to be pretty split so far, but it’s hard to tell so who knows.

      • @GoofSchmoofer
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        59 days ago

        Yet, somehow trump would be able to get away with it.