Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., stated on Sunday that former President Trump should reconsider his “poor choice” of Senator JD Vance, R-Ohio, as his vice presidential running mate.
During an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Schumer was weighing in on the upcoming presidential election and mentioned “the addition of JD Vance” to the GOP lineup.
“It’s a poor choice,” Schumer remarked. “I know Donald Trump, and he’s likely sitting there watching the news, and with every passing day, Vance does something more extreme, more unusual, more erratic. Vance appears to be more erratic and extreme than President Trump.”
“I can imagine President Trump is sitting there puzzled, wondering, ‘Why did I choose this guy?’ This choice might turn out to be one of the best things he ever did for the Democrats,” Schumer added.
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer urged former President Trump to replace Sen. JD Vance as his running mate.
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Addressing Trump, the former president and 2024 Republican presidential nominee, Schumer said, “The president has about 10 days – 10 days before the Ohio ballot is finalized.”
“He faces a decision: will he keep Vance on the ticket?” Schumer questioned. “Vance already bears a lot of baggage, and it seems there will be more because we’ll likely hear more about him, or does he choose someone fresh? What will he decide?”
Recently, the left has targeted Vance for comments made during a 2021 interview where he appeared to criticize “childless cat ladies” in the Democratic Party.
“We are essentially governed in this country, through the Democrats and our corporate oligarchs, by a group of childless cat ladies who are unhappy with their lives and the decisions they’ve made, and they want to make the rest of the country miserable as well,” Vance stated three years ago, naming Vice President Harris and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., as part of that group.
On “The Brian Kilmeade Show” on Fox News, Trump 2024 senior campaign advisor Chris LaCivita said Vance’s interview is being “taken blatantly out of context,” emphasizing that the Trump-Vance campaign is not against “childless women,” contrary to the portrayal by the liberal media.
Vance, known for his memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” which was later adapted into a Netflix film detailing his experiences as a Yale Law School student reflecting on his upbringing in Appalachia, gained national attention when Trump announced him as his vice presidential running mate at the start of the Republican National Convention.
Sen. JD Vance introduces former President Trump during a rally at Herb Brooks National Hockey Center on July 27, 2024, in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
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Republicans have positioned Vance, whose mother has been sober for a decade, as a voice for forgotten working-class Americans.
However, the Harris campaign has sought to counter that narrative.
In a video released a few weeks ago, Harris asserted that Vance would be “loyal only to Trump, not to our country,” branding him a “rubber stamp for [Trump’s] extreme agenda.”
In response, Vance, a Marine veteran who served in Iraq, defended himself during a campaign rally with Trump in Minnesota on Saturday.
Vice presidential candidate JD Vance speaks during a campaign rally in St. Cloud, Minnesota, on July 27, 2024.
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“Recently, Kamala Harris questioned my loyalty to this country, using that very term, loyalty. It’s a significant word. Semper Fi, because there’s no greater act of disloyalty to this country than what Kamala Harris has done at our southern border,” Vance stated. “I would ask the vice president, what has she done to challenge my loyalty to this country?”
“I served in the United States Marine Corps. I went to Iraq for this country. I’ve built a business for this country. And my running mate has taken a bullet for this nation. So I ask Kamala Harris: What have you done to question our loyalty to the United States of America?” Vance continued. “And the answer, my friends, is nothing.”
When asked how Harris should respond to Republican criticisms of her immigration policy, Schumer told CBS host Robert Costa that Democrats in Congress and the Biden-Harris administration “crafted the toughest border policies that would have effectively reduced the flow from the border that we’ve observed in a very long time.”
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He mentioned that the plan was initially backed by Republicans but accused Trump of seeking chaos at the border for electoral advantage.
“We’re eager to address that. And case after case, when we do, voters align with our stance, not with their policies. We were willing to address the border situation. Trump and his Republican supporters insisted, ‘Don’t fix it, we want chaos for political gain.’ Who do you think will win this argument?” Schumer concluded.
Fox News’ Gabriel Hays contributed to this report.
