JD Vance’s Attempt to Joke Kamala Harris After CNN Interview with Dana Bush Backfires

Donald Trump’s vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance has drawn criticism online for a social media post he made in response to Vice President Kamala Harris’ CNN interview.

In Harris’ first interview with her colleague Tim Walz, she was asked several questions designed to gauge her stance on key issues resembling clean energy, immigration and housing affordability.

Harris gave many measured answers and presented a warm and composed personality in front of the cameras.

In response, a person hoping to take Harris’ current vice presidential position within the upcoming election posted a joke on the social media platform X about Harris’ remarks in the course of the interview.

Vance posted the infamous clip of 2007 Miss Teen USA contestant Caite Upton, which catapulted the then-17-year-old to web meme status. Upton, Miss South Carolina that 12 months, failed to deliver during an interview when asked why a fifth of Americans couldn’t locate the United States on a world map.

Vance added the caption, “I got Kamala Harris’ entire CNN interview,” when he posted the video.

His tweet sparked tens of 1000’s of reposts and comments, with many users upset that Vance stooped to writing a misogynistic post so as to cheaply attack each Harris and Upton.

“Tell me you hate women without telling me you hate them,” wrote one commenter.

“Using a woman to mock another while mocking her is typical of your brand,” one other commented.

“This is why you will lose and will also go down in history as the least liked vice presidential candidate in history. You are a pervert, a misogynist, and voters are turned off by you,” one other user wrote.

By posting the Upton clip, Vance seemed to be suggesting that Harris had failed in her diction and performance in the course of the CNN interview. While Upton seemed to have some difficulty giving a transparent answer to her query, many viewers rated Harris as giving informed, coherent answers during her conversation with CNN’s Dana Bash.

Criticism of Bash’s questioning got here partly because a number of the questions Harris asked focused on right-wing grievances against the Democratic Party or Trump’s provocative comments about her racial identity. Harris missed a chance to speak more comprehensively about her policy proposals.

“This is modern ‘journalism,’” one X user said. “Every question is a ‘trick’ question designed for a viral video or tweet.”

Vance later appeared on CNN, where he dismissed his tweet as a joke, stating that “politics has become too pathetic” and “too boring,” adding that politicians can have “a little fun” while also working to improve the lives of Americans.

“Sometimes when you’re in the spotlight, you make mistakes, and I think the best way to deal with that is to laugh at yourself, to laugh at these things and try to find a little bit of fun in politics,” Vance told CNN’s John Berman.

“I posted a meme from 20 years ago, and I think the fact that we’re talking about that, and not about American families not being able to afford groceries or health care, young families not being able to afford a home to raise their children in, is more important. Those are the real crises that we should be focusing on, and there’s nothing stopping us from cracking a few jokes along the way.”