Former President Trump and Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) campaigned together for the first time as a part of the newly minted GOP presidential ticket in Michigan on Saturday, and Trump’s running mate wasted no time criticizing Vice President Harris.
“Now, I’ve had such an incredible, a blessed week. What a cool thing it was to be asked by President Trump to serve as his running mate and get out there on the campaign trail. But there’s some bad news actually,” Vance said roughly a minute into his speech, speaking to supporters at a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich. “The vice president — Kamala Harris — she doesn’t like me.
“Kamala Harris said something to the effect that I have no loyalty to this country,” the Ohio Republican continued. “Well, I don’t know Kamala. I did serve in the United States Marine Corps and built a business. What the hell have you done other than collect a check?”
Several days after Trump tapped Vance as his vice-presidential pick during the Republican National Convention, Harris rebuked Vance while speaking to supporters in North Carolina — offering an early preview of how the two running mates are looking to make their case against each other.
“It’s a compelling story,” Harris said about Vance’s personal story. “And, it was not the full story.”
“Frankly, what is very telling is what he did not talk about on that stage. He did not talk about Project 2025, their 900-page blueprint for a second Trump term. He did not talk about it because their plans are extreme and they are divisive,” she explained during the rally.
The rally in Grand Rapids offered Republicans their first chance to see the two men campaign together since Vance was officially selected as Trump’s running mate.
The rally came just days after the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee wrapped up and exactly one week after Trump was shot in the ear during an attempted assassination while he was campaigning in Butler, Pa.
Trump wore a smaller, flesh-tone bandage on his ear at the Michigan rally, a contrast to the larger white bandage he wore at the convention earlier this week. He spoke about the shooting, thanking people for their support following the attack, describing the ordeal later in his speech as taking “a bullet for democracy.” --->READ MORE HERE
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Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio opened up his first official campaign event as former President Donald Trump by punching back at his Democratic counterpart Kamala Harris.
Mr. Vance said with a simile that Ms. Harris apparently “doesn’t like me”
“Kamala Harris said something to the effect that I have no loyalty to this country,” Mr. Vance said at the first campaign rally since Mr. Trump survived an assassination attempt. “I don’t know, Kamala, I did serve in the United States Marine corps and build a business.”
“What the hell have you done?” the 39-year-old said. “What has she done other than collect a check from political offices? We have to give her credit, my friends. She did serve as border security during the biggest disaster, the open border, that we have had in this country.”
Mr. Trump tapped Mr. Vance as his running mate at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, days after surviving an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The announcement finalized the top of the GOP ticket and came as Democrats continued to consider whether President Biden should withdraw from the race and allow someone else to face Mr. Trump this fall.
Mr. Vance said that it is still “weird” to see his name alongside Mr. Trump on the campaign billboards and T-shirts and that he is honored to be on the ticket. --->READ MORE HEREFOLLOW LINK BELOW TO A RELEVANT STORY:
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