Kamala Harris congratulates JD Vance, hopes 'that the two can meet' at VP debate
By: Julia Johnson (Fox News)
Ruh roh, raggy. Trump is passing the torch. Scooby Doo where are you?
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Vice President Kamala Harris called Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, whom former President Trump chose as his running mate Monday, and congratulated him after the announcement.
"Vice President Harris reached out to Senator Vance and left a message to congratulate him on his selection, welcome him to the race and express her hope that the two can meet in the vice presidential debate proposed by CBS News," a Biden campaign official told Fox News.
After months of teasing his pick, Trump revealed Vance as his running mate selection in a Truth Social post on the opening afternoon of the Republican National Convention.
JD Vance might be the worst case scenario for Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of the 2024 election.
In May, Trump accepted a vice presidential debate on behalf of his future running mate to be hosted on Fox News. However, the Biden campaign has only been willing to do the debate on CBS.
While no vice presidential debate has been confirmed yet, in the case that Vance and Harris do face off, it may be the vice president's worst-case scenario. President Biden and former President Trump agreed to two presidential debates. The first was hosted by CNN on June 27 and the second will be hosted by ABC on Sept. 10.
"I think JD Vance would pose the greatest threat [to] Kamala Harris, in some respects. I mean he's an incredible debater," Ashley Etienne, Harris' former communications director, previously told CNN.
"I think he has this quality that makes him seem palpable to that one to two percent that actually might vote or that is undecided, that will actually pay attention to the debates because most people don't pay attention to the debates," she explained.
She described the 39-year-old senator as both "super smart" and "quick-witted," which she noted could be a problem for Harris.
This could pose a particular issue for the vice president, who has become known for "word salads" or rambling monologues that often find their way onto social media. One such clip going viral on TikTok and other social media platforms features Harris asking, "You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?"
After laughing, she continues to say, "You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you."
Harris has even been the subject of a "Saturday Night Live" skit, which made fun of the habit. "It's a process I call speaking without thinking," joked Daily Show correspondent Desi Lydic, playing the role of the vice president's "holistic thought adviser, Dahlia Rose Hibiscus."
"It's not about the destination of the thought, it's about the journey and how many words you use to describe the journey," she added.
One author, Elaina Plott Calabro, who profiled Harris for months at the Atlantic remarked, "She's a very poor communicator when the parameters are quite wide."
In a setting such as a debate, where communication is one of the most important elements, its unclear whether Harris would be able to stack up.
Julia Johnson is a politics writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business, leading coverage of the U.S. Senate. She was previously a politics reporter at the Washington Examiner.
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President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris arrive for a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, May 27, 2024. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
There wasn't any fanfare for the announcement of Trump's running mate. More like a matter-of-fact passing of the torch. J.D. Vance is the heir apparent. Is Kamala Harris ready for what is coming?
Wasn't Harris and Democrats planning to run on Critical Race Theory, book bans, racist cops, xenophobic clingers, Pride rides, DEI, murder by pregnancy? Seems like Democrats have gotten stuck in a Jan. 6th Ground Hogs Day. That's the only thing left on their presser cheat sheet.
Good luck, Kamala, you're gonna need it.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
But the major push will be running on republicans taking away women's rights, promoting racism, being pro-Putin/Russia, and anti-middle/working class.
Well, Joe Biden doesn't have a record to rally around. And lawfare has failed miserably. Democrats don't have anything other than hair-on-fire misinformation to run on.
Good luck with that.
So you are just ignoring all the laws being proposed and/or passed in red states to limit a woman's access to medical procedures and even contraceptives?
Only to a right winger's mind. He has done a lot of good for the country, a lot more than "the Donald".
Some folks have been fooled into thinking that Biden's record on the border, inflation, the deficit, and wars in the world are all great successes!
Now, you and I may not "rally" around that, but you can bet your bottom dollar sycophants will!
Has Biden finally banned tiki torches? Has Biden beefed up security at the Capitol? Has Biden eliminated the dreaded Jim Crow 2.0?
Other than spending a lot of public money what has Biden accomplished? Anybody could do a lot of pandering with your money, too.
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Straight from the Democrat talking points of non reality.
Biden got the return from Covid bounce.
What an accomplishment./S
More people died under his watch from Covid than Trump's; and Biden had the Trump vaccines and therapeutics already in place.
As for the rest. Any accomplishments have been overshadowed by his shit show withdrawal from Afghanistan; wasting billions in the Ukraine sink hole; crime; inflation, high gas prices, open border and record levels of illegal immigrants flooding in, attacking the Supreme Court and defying their rulings with rent moratorium and college load debt forgiveness, allowing a Chinese spy balloon to traverse the US unopposed, and more deaths from drugs than any other president.
But hey he did set one record- he has caught Covid more times than any other president- and that is with getting jabbed 4 times a year.
Here come the women are 'dumber' than (any) man 'ever' born bull. Wow. It is 'incredible' that (any) woman votes for this kind of 'treatment.'
Funny, I heard Clair McCaskill say the exact opposite thing recently - that Harris would mop the floor with Vance in a VP debate. This bearded cabbage patch kid is as woefully uninformed on government as his running mate. Being a clever author is not going to get him anywhere in that scenario.
I do want V. P. Harris to keep her eyes on the prize: Independent voters. Because 'they' are the prize worth getting this year. Focus on them and what drives them to the polls.
Yeah, she did awesome in 2020. She would have made it all the way to the first primary if Tulsi Gabbard didn't destroy her candidacy in a debate.
I guess we’ll have to wait for it to happen then, instead of trying to predict the unknowable.
Trump has pretty much captured the independents. And probably a lot of voters who formerly voted Democrat too.
Kamala Harris tried to beat Joe Biden in a debate --- and failed. Joe Biden defeated Harris along with all the other Democrat challengers. Joe Biden is the best Democrats have got.
Those are some mighty sad words.
True, but really, really sad.
Kamala is a low information giggle puss. Vance will chew her up and spit her out. But Joe had to check those boxes.
Kamala was the Attorney General of California, the largest state in the union. There is little doubt she is a good lawyer.
No doubt, just ask Willie brown.
She won a popularity contest where a bag of dogshit with a D after it can get elected to statewide office and you extrapolate that to, she was a good attorney?
Maybe in your world that's how women get promotions but Ms. Harris got it on merit.
A low information giggle puss?
What the fuck?
No doubt, just ask willie.
I agree. Cackle puss works better.
You see that Trumpists chose not to promote a woman up to the ranks of V.P. (against opposing another woman vice-president) establishing where their mindset is about women (on full display). Why some women want to vote for that 'treatment' I do not understand.
She better hope there is a translator in real time to decipher her word salads.
Don't forget the ranch!
No need for the question mark.
I think ole Willy knew more about her than even her husband might.
JD Vance and Peter Thiel: Inside the relationship between Trump’s VP and PayPal billionaire
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JD Vance and Peter Thiel: Inside the relationship between Trump’s VP and PayPal billionaire (forbes.com.au)
Excerpt:
Mr. Thiel’s relationship with Mr. Trump has since soured while Mr. Vance’s ties to the former president have strengthened. At a conference in Aspen, Colo., last month, Mr. Thiel said he would vote for Mr. Trump only “if you hold a gun to my head.”
Mr. Thiel placed calls to encourage Mr. Trump to choose Mr. Vance, two people briefed on the calls said. With Mr. Vance now Mr. Trump’s running mate, Mr. Thiel is significantly more likely to back the ticket, two other people close to the investor said. After Mr. Trump announced Mr. Vance as his pick on Monday, Mr. Thiel messaged close associates to express his excitement, they said.
Mr. Vance “was very much a friend of the Thiel network going back years,” said Crystal McKellar, a venture capitalist who worked with Mr. Vance at Mithril Capital. “It seemed like Peter saw something really special in him and wanted to encourage it.”
Mr. Musk also encouraged Mr. Trump to choose Mr. Vance in private communications recently. On Monday, Mr. Musk called Mr. Vance’s selection an “excellent decision.”
Mr. Vance has relied on Mr. Sacks, whom he called “one of my closest confidants” in politics at a gala this spring. After that event, Mr. Vance introduced Mr. Sacks to Mr. Trump’s oldest son , Donald Trump Jr.
The former president has been impressed by Mr. Sacks’s wealth and media profile, a person familiar with Mr. Trump’s thinking said, and Mr. Sacks spoke on Monday at the Republican National Convention.
At the San Francisco fund-raiser for Mr. Trump last month, Mr. Sacks returned the favor to Mr. Vance. The high-profile event, which raised $12 million for Mr. Trump’s campaign, would not have happened without Mr. Vance, Mr. Sacks said, according to a person with knowledge of his remarks there.
“This is who I want by Trump’s side,” Mr. Sacks posted on X on Monday, adding, “God bless JD, God bless Trump, and God bless the USA.”
Sharon LaFraniere contributed reporting. Alain Delaquérière contributed research.
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