Trump running mate J.D. Vance schooled CNN’s Dana Bash during a Sunday interview over Kamala Harris’ refusal to do interviews, her campaign’s ad hominem attacks against him, and its lack of coherent policy proposals.
Vance told the “State of the Union” host that she should be asking Kamala Harris to answer for her and Joe Biden’s disastrous policies rather than dredge up questions about irrelevant past remarks he’s made.
“You’ve now asked me three questions about comments that I made three years ago. I wonder what Kamala Harris thinks about the fact that her policies opened the southern border…Kamala’s been the nominee for three weeks and she hasn’t sat down for a real interview,” Vance said.
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“I’m interviewing you, not Kamala Harris,” Bash retorted.
“You are interviewing me, Dana, because I respect the American people enough to sit down for an interview,” Vance pointed out, adding Harris has not been interviewed since she was coronated as the Democrat nominee.
“The point is, Dana, you’ve got me for 15 minutes…we should be talking about public policies that matter,” Vance added. “How are we going to lower inflation? How are we going to reduce the cost of food and housing? How are we going to close down that southern border? We talked so little about that, we talked a lot more about a sarcastic remark I made three years ago, I think we should talk about the issues most Americans care about.”
Vance also called out the Harris campaign’s mud-slinging strategy of calling him “weird,” saying it “drives home how they’re trying to distract from their own policy failures.”
“I mean, look, this is fundamentally schoolyard bully stuff,” Vance said. “They can accuse me of whatever they want to accuse me of.”
.@JDVance responds to Democrats calling him “weird,” telling @DanaBashCNN that it’s “fundamentally schoolyard bully stuff” and that he thinks it’s “a little bit of projection.” pic.twitter.com/1ySPsvljME
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“I’m doing this because I think that me being vice president will help improve people’s lives, so I accept their attacks, but I think that it is a little bit of projection, Dana,” Vance added.
“So I think that what it is is two people, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, who aren’t comfortable in their own skin because they aren’t comfortable with their policy positions for the American people, and so they’re name-calling instead of actually telling the American people how they’re going to make their lives better. I think that’s weird, Dana, but look, they can call me whatever they want to,” Vance said.
Watch the full interview:
