Former President Donald Trump has been told by allies that he should stick to policy messaging and avoid going off script, but his vice presidential pick is setting the record straight.
J.D. Vance spoke with Fox News Digital about how Trump’s willingness to react to things in the spur of the moment makes him more appealing to people who are sick of the canned responses that Americans have come to expect of politicians.
“I think one of the things people actually love about Donald Trump in politics is he’s not unwilling to speak off the cuff. He says what’s actually on his mind. He’s not always filtered. I think that’s a good thing and part of his appeal,” the VP nominee said on Wednesday.
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However, he made it clear that for all of the comments and jokes he’s made about Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump is most certainly focused on policy.
“If you look at this race, we’re talking about policy. That’s 90% of what we’re doing. And I think that’s going to keep on happening.”
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been among the voices calling for Trump to tone down his criticism of Harris if it isn’t related to her policy positions.
“You’ve got to make this race not on personalities,” he said on Monday’s episode of “America’s Newsroom.” “Stop questioning the size of her crowds and start questioning her position.”
He reminded Trump that Harris’s truncated campaign means that he only has a limited time to expose the veep as being a bad choice for America.
Nikki Haley also had some words of wisdom for the former president, whom she ran against early on in the 2024 race.
“The campaign is not going to win talking about crowd sizes. It’s not going to win talking about what race Kamala Harris is. It’s not going to win. Talking about whether she’s dumb. It’s not. You can’t win on those things. The American people are smart. Treat them like they’re smart,” she suggested.
After his Wednesday interview, Vance spoke about the criticism of Trump from his fellow Republicans.
“To the people who say that Donald Trump should do something different, they had an opportunity to make Donald Trump do something different by challenging him over three separate primaries, every single one of which he won. I think Donald Trump has earned the right to run the kind of campaign that he wants to run.”
“If you listen to what Donald J. Trump says, if you look at what I say, we are prosecuting the case against Kamala Harris on policy,” he added.
In closing, he took a parting shot at Kamala as a “fake who hides behind a teleprompter.”
“We’d much rather have an American president who is who he is, who’s willing to offend us, who’s willing to tell us the truth, who isn’t a fake who hides behind a teleprompter.”
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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