Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance accused the mainstream media of trying to portray Harris as “the second coming of Abraham Lincoln.”
The Ohio senator made the remarks at a rally in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, on Thursday.
“I just can’t get over how dishonest the American media has been about Kamala Harris. This is the craziest thing,” Vance said at the rally. “Now we’ve had three and a half years of […] Democratic leaders across the country spoke out, the American media backed it up, and President Biden has been the most astute man we’ve had in three and a half years, remember that?
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Vance spoke at a rally in New Kensington, Pennsylvania. (Fox News)
He added, “For three and a half years, the American media has been reporting on this guy as if he was Albert Einstein. And now they’re trying to report that Kamala Harris is the second coming of Abraham Lincoln. We don’t believe that. We don’t believe that.”
Since being selected by former President Donald Trump as his running mate, Vance has frequently spoken out about his deep distrust of the mainstream media.
Vance said in an interview on Fox News on Wednesday that he would like to have multiple debates with vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, but made a distinction between “real” and “fake” debates.
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Trump and Vance attended the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Joe Raedl/Getty Images)
“We’re not going to have this fake debate where there’s no actual audience, where we’re not setting the conditions for us to actually have a debate,” Vance said. Good exchange of ideas“
“In other words, we’re not going to get into a fake news media crap debate. We’re going to have a real debate, and if CBS agrees to it, we’ll definitely do it,” he added.
Vance found himself at odds publicly with CNN host Brianna Keilar after she questioned the validity of his military record on air.
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Walz spoke at a rally for Democratic presidential candidates at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“As you mentioned, we’ve hired him as a combat correspondent, so [Vance’s] “The title,” Keilar told CNN colleague Dana Bash on Thursday, “but if you dig a little deeper, he was a public relations professional who had never been in combat. Certainly the title ‘combat correspondent’ carries some kind of different connotation. So maybe he’s an imperfect communicator in that respect.”
“Brianna, this is horrible. You and your entire network should be ashamed of yourself,” Vance wrote to X. “I got the call to go to Iraq and I went. Tim Waltz said he had guns in the war. Did he really? No, that’s a lie.”
Keillor later retracted his statement, acknowledging in his monologue that Vance “served with honor in Iraq.”
Joseph A. Wulfsohn of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
