Fox News host Brian Kilmeade said Tuesday that Republican nominee Donald Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance may resonate with voters because they’re “weird.”
Democrats’ new attack ahead of the 2024 election is to attack Trump and Vance as “weird.” Kilmeade said the Democrats’ label for the Trump-Vance pairing will likely not fly with independents, just as so many previous attacks have failed.
“You know what didn’t work? Saying Trump is a threat to democracy, when nobody thinks that,” Kilmeade said. “The people who hate him do, but it didn’t resonate with independents, it didn’t work. So they tried to scare people, they tried to drag him to court, they tried to put him in jail, and it didn’t work. And they said he’s a threat to democracy, and it didn’t work. So now it’s like, OK, let’s say they’re weird.”
“I’ve got news for you all,” Kilmeade continued. “There’s a lot of people in America who are like, ‘Hey, I’m a little bit weird, my friends are a little bit weird, my parents are a little bit weird, so I empathize with people who are not perfect, who are a little bit weird.’ You can’t define Donald Trump to anybody on this planet. They’ve already formed an opinion. And in the case of J.D. Vance, this may have approached him, but you’ve seen the movies, you’ve read the books, you know his backstory, you saw him run for Senate. You’ve watched him for the last six, maybe a year and a half, and he’s only run once. So I don’t know how weird that is.”
“Fox & Friends” host Brian Kilmeade says many voters may identify with Trump and J.D. Vance’s “eccentricities” pic.twitter.com/LM97Gg9ndI
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Co-host Ainsley Earhardt said the Democrats’ arguments wouldn’t dampen interest in either Trump or Vance as candidates, while Kilmeade said everyone he watched on TV as a kid was “special” because of their eccentricities. (RELATED: Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade says JD Vance is “probably losing” by explaining his “childless cat-loving women” comment)
“Almost everyone you see on TV is weird and different, and that’s what makes them special,” Kilmeade added. “Right? That’s where we start. So I actually think being different is cool. There’s nothing wrong with being different.”
“Well, they’ll do it for two days, but it won’t last,” Earhart said.
The Democratic Party, especially brand He called Vance a “weird” candidate, pointing out that during a 2021 appearance on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” he said he was a “childless, cat-loving woman.” Ridiculed Democratic women, including Vice President Kamala Harris, condemned the policy, casting the left-leaning party as the party of anti-family values.
Democratic Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz Already used New term for Vance interview Democratic politicians and liberal media pundits have repeatedly denounced the vice presidential nominee and Trump as “crazy” in the past week. Harris said at a campaign event that Vance’s comments and views are “just weird,” while Illinois Rep. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, said: repetition He used the term during an appearance on ABC News on Sunday.
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