On Tuesday, Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance stopped in Michigan for an additional grin-and-bear-it rally, stuffed with pained jokes and gross lies.
“I read a story this morning that her advisers are considering just copying all of Donald Trump’s policies,” he stated. “They’re more popular. In fact, I’ve heard that for her debate in just a couple of weeks she’s going to put on a navy suit, a long red tie, and adopt the slogan ‘Make America Great Again.’” Maintain for applause.
In fact, Trump’s 2017 tax cuts for the rich stay unpopular. And the identical goes for many of his main coverage planks, based on polling from YouGov. For instance, solely 25% of Individuals assist Trump’s coverage to chop taxes on firms, whereas 59% oppose it.
On the rally, Vance additionally replicated Trump’s penchant for embellishing actuality, telling the gang that “overdose deaths were coming down” in the course of the Trump administration. Which is one other lie. In 2019, overdose deaths had been at a file excessive, based on knowledge from the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention. Additionally they rose throughout 2020. (These numbers have dropped for the previous 12 months or so.)
Within the clip above, Vance additionally means that his mom, Bev Vance, acquired sober in the course of the Trump administration, however based on Vance’s speech on the Republican Nationwide Conference in July, she’s been sober since January 2015. It’s nice that she’s gotten sober, after all, nevertheless it’s disrespectful to the thousands and thousands of Individuals affected by habit to say the Trump administration did something to stymie America’s opioid disaster.
Vance give up mendacity simply sufficient to make a number of extra unhealthy, even offensive jokes.
“Kamala Harris said, ‘When we fight, we win.’ This is one of her favorite taglines,” he stated. “And I don’t know if you saw it, but then [Harris running mate] Tim Walz stood up and shouted, ‘And even when we don’t fight,’ that’s what, that’s what Tim Walz said.”
Making jokes on the expense of Walz, who’s way more widespread than Vance, is a troublesome order.
