Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Sunday said former President Trump ought to trade out his “incredibly bad choice” of Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, as his running mate.
During an appearance on “Face the Nation,” Schumer was giving his insight on the impending presidential race when he chose to address “the addition of JD Vance” to the GOP ticket.
Schumer’s Input
According to Schumer: “It’s an incredibly bad choice. I think Donald Trump, I know him, and he’s probably sitting and watching the TV, and every day, Vance, it comes out Vance has done something more extreme, more weird, more erratic. Vance seems to be more erratic and more extreme than President Trump.”
He continued to state: “And I’ll bet President Trump is sitting there scratching his head and wondering, ‘Why did I pick this guy?’ The choice may be one of the best things he ever did for Democrats.”
“Whole Lot of Baggage”
In reference to Trump, the previous president and 2024 Republican official candidate, Schumer said “the president has about 10 days – 10 days before the Ohio ballot is locked in.”
He went on to state: “And he has a choice: does he keep Vance on the ticket? He already has a whole lot of baggage, he’s probably going to be more baggage over the weeks because we’ll hear more things about him, or does he pick someone new? What’s his choice?”
“Childless Cat Ladies”
The left has pursued Vance as of late concerning a 2021 interview in which the Ohio representative seemed to vilify “childless cat ladies” in the Democratic Party.
“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” Vance said three years previously.
Campaign Adviser
Vance explicitly targeted VP Harris and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., as being central in that group.
Chris LaCivita, senior campaign adviser for Trump 2024, stated on an episode of Fox News’ “The Brian Kilmeade Show” that Vance’s interview has been “blatantly taken out of context.”
Vance Background
LaCivita also stated that the Trump-Vance campaign is not against “childless women.”
Vance is the author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” a memoir which was turned into a Netflix film about his experience as a Yale Law School student looking back on his childhood in Appalachia.
Public Spotlight
Vance was thrust into the public spotlight when Trump declared him as his vice presidential running mate at the beginning of the Republican National Convention.
Vance, whose mother has been sober for ten years, has been portrayed by Republicans as speaking to forgotten working-class Americans.
Harris Response
The Harris campaign, on the other hand, has attempted to refute that message.
Harris claimed in a video that was circulated a few weeks ago that Vance would be a “rubber stamp for [Trump’s] extreme agenda” and would be “loyal only to Trump, not to our country.”
Vance Questions Harris
Vance, a Marine veteran who served in Iraq, shot back during a campaign rally with Trump in Minnesota Saturday.
Vance stated: “Now, I saw the other day Kamala Harris questioned my loyalty to this country. That’s the word she used, loyalty. And it’s an interesting word. Semper Fi, because there is no greater sign of disloyalty to this country than what Kamala Harris has done at our southern border.”
Questioning Loyalty
Vance went on to say: “And I’d like to ask the vice president, what has she done to question my loyalty to this country?”
“I served in the United States Marine Corps. I went to Iraq for this country. I built a business for this country. And my running mate took a bullet for this country. So my question to Kamala Harris is, what the hell have you done to question our loyalty to the United States of America? And the answer, my friends, is nothing.”
Border Policy
Schumer told CBS host Robert Costa that Democrats in Congress and the Biden-Harris administration “put together the toughest border policy that would have stopped the flow from the border that we’ve seen in a very long time” when asked how Harris should respond to Republican criticism of her immigration policy.
He said the arrangement was at first upheld by conservatives but believed Trump wants confusion at the border so he can run on it during the political race.
Voter Response
Schumer stated: “We’re happy to bring that up. And case after case, when we bring that up, the voters side with us, not with their policies.”
“We were willing to fix the border. Trump and his Republican minions said, ‘Don’t fix it, we want chaos for political purposes.’ Who do you think’s going to win the argument?”
Pressure may continue to mount as Harris is yet to confirm her pick for VP on the Democratic ticket.
