J.D. Vance formally accepted the Republican party’s nomination for vice president yesterday evening and he’s already trying to find ways of weaseling out of his responsibilities.
Donald Trump‘s campaign said yesterday that Vance will not debate Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of the Democratic National Convention next month.
In a statement, Brian Hughes, a senior adviser for the Trump campaign, said, “We don’t know who the Democrat nominee for Vice President is going to be, so we can’t lock in a date before their convention. To do so would be unfair to Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker, Gretchen Whitmer, or whoever Kamala Harris picks as her running mate.”
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In mid-May, Harris accepted an invitation from CBS News to debate Trump’s VP pick on either July 23 or August 13. The Biden campaign said yesterday that CBS has since offered another potential date of August 12, which Harris has also accepted.
The Trump campaign, however, hasn’t agreed to the CBS debate. (It did, however, agree to a vice presidential debate hosted by Fox News.)
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In response to Vance chickening out of the CBS debate, Brian Fallon, Harris’ communications director, issued a strongly-worded statement calling out the 39-year-old gay-hating senator for being scared to face her.
“Now suddenly right after a damning new leak showing his support for a nationwide abortion ban, Vance is backing off a debate against Vice President Harris, who has spent the last two years prosecuting the case on behalf of reproductive freedom,” Fallon said.
“This debate has been discussed for two months now. If JD Vance is unwilling to defend the Trump-Vance record on the debate stage, he should just say so.”
In Vance’s defense, Harris is a former prosecutor who wiped the floor with Mike Pence when she debated him in 2020 and made Brett Kavanaugh cry during his senate confirmation hearing in 2018. We’d be nervous to debate her, too!
On the subject of who the Democratic candidate will be, Joe Biden has repeatedly said he’s not exiting the presidential race, despite his disastrous debate performance last month, sinking poll numbers, dwindling fundraising dollars, and increasing calls from leading Democratic members of Congress that he step aside.
In a not-great interview with BET News that aired yesterday, the 81-year-old president said he would re-evaluate his decision to continue his campaign if a doctor diagnosed him with a “medical condition.”
“If I have some medical condition that emerged,” Biden said in the interview. “If somebody, if the doctors came to me and said you got this problem, that problem.”
Biden said in an interview taped yesterday that he might step down if “a medical condition” emerged.
— Niall Stanage (@NiallStanage) July 17, 2024
To be clear, COVID is 99.99 percent surely not the kind of thing he was talking about. But still.pic.twitter.com/ITYBZa0C5w
Hours later, the White House announced Biden had tested positive for COVID. He will be self-isolating at his home in Delaware for the next few days.
This morning, Axios reported that, after weeks of denying and defying calls from his own party to exit the race, the president is finally seriously considering whether it would be best for him to drop out. He could decide as early as this weekend.
If that happens, Vance’s strategy of not committing to debate Harris could pay off… for him. Unfortunately, it causes a bigger problem for the Trump campaign. Harris will likely run in Biden’s place, which means 78-year-old Trump would have to debate her instead.
A 34-time convicted felon going head-to-head with a prosecutor. What could possibly go wrong?
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Kangol2
Cens0r’s on
overdrive
Woody
Yep, it’s sad.
RIGay
I like Harris. She’s really grown into her own these past four years.
RIGay
M0derator #ell…
dgsea06
Of course, JD(?) Vance(?) and especially the Orange Dotard would slime their collective ways out of debating a stunningly smart, um…Woman! Leave it up to their hate-spinners to attack her, her family, etc.
And, of course The Cult Of The Orange Loser will comply, as will the scandal-obsessed media!
Under wraps, though, Project 2025: The Dismantling and Destruction of The United States of America.
Check it out!
Cam
It’s funny, Republicans try to act like men are so superior to women, but they are also terrified of a smart woman.
mastik8
Like her or hate her she polls staggeringly low. “NBC News says Harris’ net-negative rating of -17 is the lowest for a vice president in the history of its poll.” That was in 2023 and it hasn’t got much better.
storm45701
Trump’s net-negative rating was -33, so almost double
khan72
According to a Pew Research Center survey, 68% of Americans believe that the term “selfish” applies very or fairly well to the typical American. This indicates that a significant majority of Americans perceive their fellow citizens as selfish to some extent. This perception is part of a broader self-assessment where Americans also describe themselves as patriotic, honest, and intelligent, but also lazy and selfish
Trump is the personification of selfishness, he feeds peoples selfish hopes and desires.
Make America Great Again – again, there was a global pandemic, 1,160,000 million people died – it wasn’t that great
Hi
To the ‘Black Man’ author. As Biden would reference you too.
Let’s break this down. When did JD refuse to debate Kamala? He refuses to accept the debate while the Democrats are in panic mode pushing out Biden.
Before you’re in an uproar over this, let the feeble old man in the White House decide if he is in or out, given his latest health set back.
Most Democrats are all hate, and full of rage. Really sad life.
GayEGO
Trumpsters are at it again, Donnie is squawking about his failures and losing the 2020 election! If Joe Biden has a problem, Kamala Harris will step in!
Woody
Over 25 million people worldwide are believed to have d.i.e.d from C..O..V..I..D.
What has Joey done about it?
Woody
Yep, and you believe he got 81 million votes c..a..m..p..a..i..g..n..i..n..g from his basement.
hey scotty
cause
h e got
nothing
inbama
Our Secretary of Transportation brilliantly explained J D on Real Time tonight.
War On Free Speech
PB has never brilliantly done anything but fail.
Jimmynj
JD Vance is a total fraud, which is why Trump loves him. He’s a total wimp, first attacking Trump, then loving him. He’s useless.
abfab
What hillbilly knows what a memoir is, or has the literacy skills to write one? And what hillbilly ever heard of an elegy? Usha must have suggested the title.