Back on the trail with MAGA crowds, Vance ditches 'Midwest nice' debate tone
No more “Midwest nice.” JD Vance, back on the campaign trail after his matchup with Tim Walz, eschewed the debate-stage niceties that marked their relatively cordial meeting and went back on the offensive.
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — No more “Midwest nice.”
Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, back on the campaign trail after his matchup with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, eschewed the debate-stage niceties that marked their relatively cordial meeting and went back on the offensive Wednesday.
Coming off a debate performance that former President Donald Trump described as “fantastic,” saying it “reconfirmed his choice” of a running mate in an interview with Fox News, Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, delved into his recap of the debate within minutes of beginning his campaign remarks in the northern Detroit suburb of Auburn Hills on Wednesday afternoon.
“Now, we, of course, had a debate last night — a vice presidential debate. I thought it went pretty well,” Vance said. He then told the crowd packed into an aerospace company warehouse that he spoke with Trump on Tuesday night after he got off the stage.
“He said that Tim Walz said that he was friends with school shooters twice, and that’s something I actually didn’t notice, that Tim Walz had said that on the debate stage,” Vance said, recounting the conversation. From there, the story quickly pivoted into a new attack on his Democratic counterpart: “That was probably only the third or fourth dumbest comment Tim Walz made that night then.”
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