There have been many strange moments in this presidential election cycle. Hulk Hogan ripped off his shirt at the Republican National Convention (RNC) while screaming about “Trumpomania.” The current president and his immediate predecessor had a debate where they spent more than a minute arguing about their respective golf games. The fallout from that debate was so bad that Joe Biden had to drop out of the race — the first time a sitting president hasn’t sought reelection since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968. Donald Trump survived a near-miss assassination attempt, and he didn’t even get a bump in the polls. And he chose as his running mate a man who’d once dubbed him “America’s Hitler.”
And that’s all in the last six weeks.
Even in a cycle crammed to the gills with so many strange occurrences, though, the one that was the strangest to me was the controversy over J. D. Vance’s comments on “federal action” to prevent women in red states from crossing state lines to get abortions. On the face of it, it was a boringly normal election-year incident. The Republican vice-presidential candidate made an extreme comment about a hot-button issue in 2022, so the Harris campaign dug it up and amplified it. Nothing to see here.
But the part that left me feeling like I was having a very strange dream was the revelation that he said it on a podcast hosted by one Aimee Terese.
JD Vance said this on a podcast hosted by a Twitter user he follows who calls for putting “misogynists back in the Oval Office” and says “we need to stop normalising consent” https://t.co/ElrkbAf5VJ pic.twitter.com/BEwX61QfpB
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) July 26, 2024
If you don’t know who that is, congratulations on not being hopelessly online. Since I am…
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Auteur: Ben Burgis
