JD Vance Says Harris ‘Can’t Acknowledge She’s Been in Power for Three and a Half Years’
GOP vice presidential candidate Senator JD Vance of Ohio said Thursday that he believes “something pathological is going on” with Democratic presidential candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris that leads to her blaming former President Donald Trump for issues that happened during her time in office.
On Wednesday, Harris insisted during an interview with Bret Baier on “Special Report” that she would “not be a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency after being unable to name any specifics of what she would have changed about his administration previously.
Responding to Fox & Friends, Vance said he simply doesn’t believe her and suggested nothing will change if she is elected president.
“The entire theme of her campaign is that she hasn’t even met the person that’s the president, even though she’s his sitting vice president and ran along the ticket with him,” said Vance to hosts Steve Doocy, Lawrence Jones and Ainsley Earhardt.
“She is, of course, the deciding vote in trillions of Joe Biden’s spending. She bragged about being the last person in the room when major decisions were made,” continued Vance.
“But we have to sort of step back and appreciate there is something pathological going on here. She has been in power for three and a half years, and when asked about how she would be different, she goes and talks about Donald Trump,” said Vance.
Sen. Vance said the vice president deflects when it’s pointed out that she’s been in office for almost four years, calling her interview answers “bizarre.”
“She says, ‘Well, you know [Trump’s] been talking about politics for ten years,” said Vance.
“What is it in the mind of this person that can’t just acknowledge that she has been in power for three and a half years and bears some responsibility as the sitting vice president for the condition the country is in?” added Vance.
“She can do any number of things; she can say, ‘Well, I think that things are a little bit better than you’re giving me credit for,’ or she can say, ‘Well, this wasn’t totally my fault.'”
Vance: Harris “pretends” Trump is responsible for Biden-Harris administration issues
Vance stated that Harris instead “pretends” that the former president is responsible for “problems that happened while she was sitting vice president” regarding the affordability of groceries, the border, “chaos on the world stage,” and other issues.
“I’ve never seen a person who’s running for president, as the sitting vice president, who pretends that she has nothing to do with the condition of the country she has been governing,” said Vance.
Senator Vance was referring to a moment from the interview Wednesday evening when Baier pressed Harris over telling “The View” last week, “There is not a thing that comes to mind” that she would do differently from Biden. Harris dodged the question again on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
“My presidency will not be a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency, and, like every new president that comes into office, I will bring my life experiences, my professional experiences, and fresh and new ideas. I represent a new generation of leadership,” said Harris to Baier.
“I, for example, am someone who has not spent the majority of my career in Washington, D.C. I invite ideas, whether it be from the Republicans who are supporting me, who were just on stage with me minutes ago, and the business sector, and others who can contribute to the decisions that I make,” she continued.
“We’ve heard a lot about those plans in recent days. Your campaign slogan is ‘a new way forward’ and ‘it’s time to turn the page.’ You have been vice president for three and a half years, so what are you turning the page from?” Baier followed up.
“First of all, turning the page from the last decade in which we have been burdened with the kind of rhetoric coming from Donald Trump that has been designed and implemented to divide our country and have Americans literally point fingers at each other. Rhetoric and an approach to leadership that suggests that the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down instead of what we all know the strength of leadership is based on who you lift up,” said Harris.
Baier then attempted to interrupt, but the vice president continued, “The strength of an American president which is one who understands that the vast majority of us have more in common than what separates us.”
“That is about turning the page on rhetoric that people are frankly exhausted of, Bret. People are exhausted,” she emphasized.
Baier then asked why, after three and a half years of the Biden-Harris administration, 79% of Americans say the country is on the wrong track. “If you’re turning the page, you’ve been in office for three and a half years,” he prompted.
“And Donald Trump has been running for office since,” — replied the vice president as Baier again noted she had been in office.
“Come on,” said Harris. “You and I both know what I’m talking about.”
“I actually don’t. What are you talking about?” asked Baier, before Harris again pivoted back to Trump.
