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How much of a boat anchor can Vance be? So did Trump and his team pick Vance in order to win the crucial swing state of Ohio? And wouldn't it be ironic if Vance was responsible for Trump losing Ohio?
BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. — More than a week after Kamala Harris’s debut as the likely Democratic presidential nominee, the buzz around her candidacy is still fresh here in the collar counties surrounding Philadelphia. Though many voters acknowledged they know little about her or her ideas, they used words like “exciting” and “energizing” to describe the political moment.
But the politician everyone really wanted to talk about was Sen. JD Vance, with his selection as former president Donald Trump’s running mate sparking a new chapter in the long-running conversation about Trump’s views of women.
Vance’s comments from 2021 suggesting that Americans without children “don’t really have a direct stake” in the country’s future went viral days ago. But unfortunately for Trump, the maelstrom surrounding his running mate is still stirring in this perennial battleground. In interviews with more than two dozen voters, it was clear that Vance’s views have renewed unease about Trump’s judgment, his past statements about women and his record on abortion. Almost universally, voters also said they were bracing for Trump to unleash personal attacks on Harris.
“Now that you’ve got Kamala in there, you’ve got a whole different ballgame,” said Mike Dumin, a 68-year-old independent from Lansdale. “He is going to attack her in ways that are going to be distasteful to most normal people except his base. He can’t help himself. He cannot stand the fact that it’s a woman, especially a woman who is a minority who could beat him.”
Dumin said that Vance’s past comments suggest that the senator from Ohio “wants obedient servants at home just having babies” and that his public interactions with his wife, Usha — who met Vance while studying at Yale and clerked for Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. before practicing at a prestigious law firm but has kept a low profile — should tell Americans everything they need to know.
“That’s what he pushes. That’s who he is. And this is coming from a man,” Dumin said.
BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. — More than a week after Kamala Harris’s debut as the likely Democratic presidential nominee, the buzz around her candidacy is still fresh here in the collar counties surrounding Philadelphia. Though many voters acknowledged they know little about her or her ideas, they used words like “exciting” and “energizing” to describe the political moment.
But the politician everyone really wanted to talk about was Sen. JD Vance, with his selection as former president Donald Trump’s running mate sparking a new chapter in the long-running conversation about Trump’s views of women.
Vance’s comments from 2021 suggesting that Americans without children “don’t really have a direct stake” in the country’s future went viral days ago. But unfortunately for Trump, the maelstrom surrounding his running mate is still stirring in this perennial battleground. In interviews with more than two dozen voters, it was clear that Vance’s views have renewed unease about Trump’s judgment, his past statements about women and his record on abortion. Almost universally, voters also said they were bracing for Trump to unleash personal attacks on Harris.
“Now that you’ve got Kamala in there, you’ve got a whole different ballgame,” said Mike Dumin, a 68-year-old independent from Lansdale. “He is going to attack her in ways that are going to be distasteful to most normal people except his base. He can’t help himself. He cannot stand the fact that it’s a woman, especially a woman who is a minority who could beat him.”
Dumin said that Vance’s past comments suggest that the senator from Ohio “wants obedient servants at home just having babies” and that his public interactions with his wife, Usha — who met Vance while studying at Yale and clerked for Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. before practicing at a prestigious law firm but has kept a low profile — should tell Americans everything they need to know.
“That’s what he pushes. That’s who he is. And this is coming from a man,” Dumin said.
