Nonplussed by the narrative, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance offered up his guess on who was responsible for the “middle school social scene” campaign ploy to label him “weird.”
(Video: Full Send Podcast)
When corporate media wasn’t ignoring Vice President Kamala Harris’ actual record in favor of demonizing former President Donald Trump over a debunked association to Project 2025, they were coordinating messaging on his running mate. As he had with the outcry over his “childless cat ladies” commentary, Vance didn’t balk when asked about being deemed “weird” and instead attributed the label to “24-year-old social media interns.”
Joining the “Full Send” podcast for an interview that premiered Friday, the freshman lawmaker was asked about the echo chamber indictment on his personality and replied, “I don’t know if it’s like something they focus-grouped and decided to push on us. Like, I’m a pretty normal guy, I’ve got a wife and kids and I like to hang out and, you know, watch football. And I care about this stuff because I care about the country.”
“My attitude on this is: my best guess — this is just a total guess — is that her campaign is run by a lot of like 24-year-old social media interns who maybe were bullied in school and so now they’ve decided they’re gonna do that same thing,” he went on. “They’re gonna take that like attitude of the middle school social scene and try to run a campaign on it.”
“I just don’t think most Americans buy it or care,” asserted the bestselling author.
Previously, Vance had defended remarks that he had made during a 2021 interview with Tucker Carlson where he’d argued, “We are effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they wanna make the rest of the country miserable, too.”
He’d told Fox News host Trey Gowdy, “If you look at the full context of what I said, it’s very clear the Democrats have tried to take this thing out of context and blow it out of proportion, which is what they always do because they don’t have an agenda to run on themselves.”
Trump also came to the defense of his running mate Thursday during an appearance on “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show” when Travis asked about the narrative in light of leftists like Harris supporting men competing in women’s sports.
“They’re the weird ones,” slammed the president. “Nobody’s ever called me weird. I’m a lot of things, but weird I’m not. He’s not either, I will tell you. J.D. is not at all.”
(Video: The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show)
“They are. I mean, who wants to have open borders where prisoners — that’s weird — where prisoners and where mental institution patients are taken out of hospitals and jails and they’re let into our country,” continued Trump. “So that’s weird. Who would want that policy? Who wants the men in women’s sports policy? Who wants to quadruple your taxes? The whole thing is weird, and the way they do elections is weird.”
“We’re not weird people, we’re actually just the opposite,” the GOP leader added. “We’re right down the middle.”
Meanwhile, Vance brushed aside the attacks and said, “My attitude is like, I’m just gonna be who I am and if they wanna attack me for whatever they’re gonna attack me on, that’s fine. You just gotta kinda power through and do your thing.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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