Grilled by a CNN reporter over Donald Trump’s comments at the black journalists convention about Kamala Harris’s, uh, fluid ethnic identification, his running mate replied that they “don’t give me pause at all.” Vance continued, “Look, all he said is that Kamala Harris is a chameleon. She goes to Georgia two days ago, she was raised in Canada, she puts on a fake southern accent. She is everything to everybody and she pretends to be something different depending on which audience she’s in front of. I think it’s reasonable for the president to call that out, and that’s all he did.”
Bingo.
Trump needs an effective interpreter to periodically decipher his stream-of-consciousness riffs, and since it is clear that attacking, spinning, and misrepresenting the GOP Presidential nominee’s words as proof that he is a lying madman, racist, sexist Hitler monster Marvel supervillain is going to be the primary approach the mainstream media will take to cover this campaign, it is very fortunate that Trump named an articulate and fearless interlocutor to share the ticket with him. Vance is an interpreter.
Among the myriad reasons that Presidential nominees have selected their VPs, almost none of them having anything to do with whether the selections have sufficient experience, ability and qualifications to lead the country, that’s a better reason than most.
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Indeed. You nailed it. Just move it up to #1.
The problem with being “interpreter” for Vance is he better get it right every time or fall out of Trump’s favor.
Yes, the AUC has the talking point to push: ‘Trump is having buyer’s remorse for picking Vance.’ Not based on any fact, just wishful thinking and a talking point someone ginned up.
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It does for me!
Maybe it’s an oddity of the WordPress iPhone app
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This is absolutely right. It would be great if Trump would just say it the way Vance did, but he won’t. The media knows exactly what he meant anyway. I wish Vance had pointed that out, too.
This is the kind of headline/story that perturbs me: “Harris campaign says Trump is ‘running scared’ after he offers Fox debate“
If Biden hadn’t dropped out then Harris would have been debating Vance and it probably would have been a massacre. That’s the debate I wanted to see.
Trump didn’t sign up to debate Harris on September 10 on ABC; Biden has dropped out and he has no obligation to debate Harris on ABC. This, in my book, would be a lose-loses situation for Trump. It looks to me that Harris is ‘scared’ to debate Trump on FOX network on September 4. I know FOX is biased also but I think Harris would be treated more fairly on FOX than Trump could ever hope for on ABC.
As most of us already know, from now until November 5, the media bias in Harris’ favor will make for a severely lopsided playing field. I’ll be surprised if Trump comes out victorious regardless of some optimism I’ve seen from other Trump supporters.