Sen. J.D Vance (R-Ohio) accused his Democratic rivals of engaging in “schoolyard bully” attacks even as his running mate, Donald Trump, is trying desperately to start a new nickname for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Vance made the comment during a sit down interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday when asked about Democrats labeling the Trump/Vance ticket as ‘weird’.
“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.”
“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,” Vance added.
Though he tried to dismiss the attack as ‘schoolyard bully’ tactics, Vance tried to flip the script by arguing that it is Harris’ running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), who is weird because he “gave his wife a nice, firm Midwestern handshake” after his speech as the new vice president pick “and then tried to sort of awkwardly correct for it.”
“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.
Vance’s comments come as his running mate, former President Trump, has been trying—and failing—for weeks to start a new nickname for Harris.
The names so far include “Laughing Kamala,” “Crazy Kamala,” “Lyin’ Kamala,” “Dumb as a Rock Kamala,” and his most recent, “Kamabla.”
Since those names have all flopped, Trump has resorted to calling Harris a “bitch” in private and questioning her intelligence and race in public.
“I’m no Biden fan, but I tell you what, from a constitutional standpoint, from any standpoint you look at, they took the presidency away,” Trump said during a rambling news conference on Thursday at Mar-a-Lago.
“I’m not a big fan of his brain, but I think that she’s actually not as smart as he is…Well … uh, she’s a woman,” he continued. “She represents certain groups of people.”
