Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance has once again managed to step into a controversy that is getting him blasted on social media as the “KKK whisperer” and could do further damage to the GOP ticket.
NBC News asked Vance about remarks made recently by right-wing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, who wrote on Twitter/X that if Kamala Harris is elected president, the White House “will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center.”
According to journalist John Harwood, Vance refused to condemn Loomer and her disgusting comment, instead suggesting that he preferred fried chicken.
“Whether you’re eating curry at your dinner table or fried chicken, things have gotten more expensive thanks to her policies,” Vance said.
NBC asked JD Vance about Laura Loomer's racist statement that the WH would "smell like curry" if Harris wins.
Calling it unimportant, Vance replied:
"whether you're eating curry at your dinner table or fried chicken, things have gotten more expensive thanks to her policies."
It’s not an exaggeration to say that Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate, is a very strange person. He’s downright weird, and so are many of the things he’s said over the years about denying women the right to control their bodies and how men need to be more “alpha” if the United States is to survive as a superpower.
Vance often comes across as little more than an animatronic wax figure trying to pass himself off as a human being and failing miserably.
But a video making the rounds on social media is drawing new mockery of Vance for his so-called “laughing” during a campaign speech, with many noting that he sounds like Jack Nicholson as the Joker in the 1989 film, “Batman.”
Here’s the Vance video, which has been trending on Twitter/X over the past few days and currently has 181,000 views:
Why does JD Vance laugh like he is reading the words ha ha ha off a teleprompter pic.twitter.com/QrIhoCrtmX
For years, failed former president Donald Trump and the Republican Party have tried to make inroads with one of the fastest-growing voting blocs in the country: Hispanics.
But it appears that outreach was all for naught, according to new polling data.
On Wednesday’s edition of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Jonathan Lemire asked former Biden administration press secretary Jen Psaki about the polls.
“It’s not like Trump’s numbers are really going down per se. At least not much,” Lemire noted. “It’s more Harris’ growing support. It seems like Democrats that, for whatever reason, had really cooled on President Biden are now coming home because they’re excited about Kamala.”
“That’s exactly right, and remember just over a month ago, there was a larger number of double haters as we called them, people who weren’t thrilled about either candidate,” Psaki explained. “There was a large percentage of undecided voters that kind of wavered from poll to poll, and this all is a reflection of Democrats coming home, or Democratic-leaning voters coming home, which is a very good sign for the Biden (sic) and Walz campaign, exactly what you want coming out of the convention.”
“One of the most interesting numbers, certainly 18 to 34-year-olds, but the Hispanic number, Latinos is super interesting because this is a group that Trump and the Trump team has really done a ton of outreach to, and it is a group that you have seen some trends in certain states that has been leaning sometimes more Republican than they have been historically Democratic,” she added.
The segment concluded with Psaki remarking, “So this is a very good sign for them. What this means too, and you see this in state polls which are much more interesting to me than national polls, is that some of the states that seem to be off of the competition lane for the Democratic ticket like Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, are back in competition, and that’s a very good sign for the Harris-Walz team because they have more maps to get to 270, and it’s not just the Blue Wall, even though the Blue Wall will still be pivotal.”
Women, the single-largest voting bloc in the country, are now registering to vote in record numbers, as are young people. Harris will likely win the black vote by a mile and is also looking good among Asian voters. If the Hispanic vote also breaks for Harris, Trump will be left with little more than angry white men who wouldn’t vote for a black woman in a million years.
Could a popular and electoral vote be in the offing for Democrats in November? That’s very possible, but only if we all get out and cast a ballot against Trump and his extreme right-wing agenda.
According to Sen. J.D. Vance, all of the polls that show Vice President Kamala Harris with political momentum on the eve of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago are all “fake” and shouldn’t be believed.
Vance appeared on the friendly airwaves of Fox News earlier this morning. Host Shannon Bream asked him about several recent polls that have Harris pulling ahead of failed former president Donald Trump in several key battleground states. Rather than answer the question, Vance suggested that support for Harris is stagnant and decreasing.
“How does that not line up then with another poll we got out this morning, Washington Post, ABC, they’re giving the vice president nationally a four to five-point lead?” Bream inquired. “I mean, those are new numbers.”
“So if you think the momentum is not swinging or your internal polls are suggesting differently, every other poll that’s been released has shown great momentum in her direction.”
Vance replied, “You know, Shannon, I think there are a lot of polls that actually show her stagnating and leveling off. Of course, ABC, Washington Post was a wildly inaccurate pollster in the summer of 2020.”
But this isn’t 2020. It’s 2024.
“We can’t worry about polls,” Vance insisted. “Consistently, what you’ve seen in 2016 and 2020 is that the media uses fake polls to drive down Republican turnout and to create dissension and conflict with Republican voters.”
“I’m telling you, every single person who’s watching this, the Trump campaign is in a very, very good spot.”
Fake polls? That’s a common refrain when a candidate is losing. And the Trump-Vance ticket is losing badly, especially when it comes to momentum and fundraising. Their poll numbers drop nearly every time one of them opens his mouth.
At this rate, Trump and Vance could wind up losing by a historic margin. Maybe that would finally put a stake through the heart of the MAGA movement.
If enthusiasm and interest from voters are keys to successful political campaigns, then disgraced former president Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) are absolutely screwed.
For weeks now, Trump has been suggesting that Vice President Kamala Harris could never draw crowds as big as his, and yet she’s been doing exactly that (and then some) with her barnstorming political rallies in several key battleground states, suggesting that all the momentum is on the side of Democrats with less than three months until Election Day.
In contrast, the convicted felon ex-head of state has been largely secluded at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida while Vance has been doing most of the actual campaigning on behalf of the GOP ticket.
On Wednesday, Vance held a rally in Michigan, and based on the sparse crowd that showed up to hear him speak, Republicans should probably go ahead and start working on their concessions speeches, because they’re going to be needed soon after the polls close on November 5.
Multiple reporters who covered the Vance event said the number of audience members was sparse, to say the least, with dozens of empty seats and almost no applause from those who were in attendance.
Tech correspondent Chris O’Brien noted, “If I’m being generous, that looks like 10 rows of 10 seats across on each side. So about a total of 200 people potentially?”
If I'm being generous, that looks like 10 rows of 10 seats across on each side. So about a total of 200 people potentially?
Others also shared photos showing just how few people were there to see Vance speak, with Meryl Kornfield of the Washington Post trying to put a happy face on the photos that were circulated on social media.
The photo of a virtually empty Vance rally going around doesn’t accurately depict the crowd size now. Pretty much every seat is full and there are attendees hanging out in shady areas that aren’t in this photo. https://t.co/5Ao2jf2ubPpic.twitter.com/5QPWTHOR3H
Others who saw the photos were spectacularly unimpressed.
But this looks like it's the live feed right now? And this still looks like a very bad turnout for a Vice Presidential nominee's event. Maybe they're under the shady trees. But it's not like there's a lot of seats there to begin with.https://t.co/hpHoqtrzAV
Enthusiasm and interest are lacking when it comes to the Trump-Vance ticket. At this rate, they’ll be able to hold their upcoming rallies in a one-car garage with room left over for refreshments.
