JD Vance says he's not hurt by 'weird' campaign: 'If you can't take the heat...' - Times of India

JD Vance said the ‘weird’ campaign aimed at him by the Democrats has not hurt his sentiments as he has been cornered with past controversies. In a Fox News interview, he said, “No, not at all. It doesn’t hurt my feelings.”
“Look, the price of admission — meaning, the price of getting to serve the people of this country — is the Democrats are going to attack us with everything that they have.I think it’s an honor,” Vance said citing Harry Truman that “if you can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen”.

Weird campaigning: Explained in 10 points

  1. Democrat Tim Walz reportedly first used the word ‘weird’ about Donald Trump and JD Vance. He said it was just an observation that they are weird. “Listen to the guy. He’s talking about Hannibal Lecter and shocking sharks and just whatever crazy thing pops into his mind. And I thought we just give him way too much credit”.
  2. “My observation on this is — have you ever seen the guy (Donald Trump) laugh? That seems very weird to me, that an adult can go through six and a half years of being in the public eye — if he has laughed, it’s at someone, not with someone,” he added. “That is weird behavior, and I don’t think you call it anything else. It is simply what we’re observing,” Walz said.
  3. Kamala Harris in her first fundraiser labeled statements by Donald Trump and his running mates JD Vance as ‘weird’.
  4. “You may have noticed Donald Trump has been resorting to some wild lies about my record, and some of what he and his running mate are saying, well, it’s just plain weird,” Kamala Harris said. “I mean, that’s the box you put that in, right?”
  5. Since then, the weird campaign just picked its pace with people carrying signs like ‘Trump is weird“, “If my cat could vote, she would vote for you (Harris)” etc.
  6. And then, the Republicans too started giving back the ‘weird’ campaign to the Democrats. JD Vance himself posted a video calling himself weird mocking at Kamala Harris.
  7. Vivek Ramaswamy said ‘they’re weird’ argument from the Democrats was dumb and juvenile. “This is a presidential election, not a high school prom queen contest. It’s also a tad ironic coming from the party that preaches ‘diversity & inclusion’. Win on policy if you can, but cut the crap please,” Vivek wrote.
  8. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez replied to Ramaswamy’s post and said people need to know how ‘super weird’ the Republicans are. “Being obsessed with repressing women is goofy. Trying to watch what LGBTQ+ people do all the time is abnormal. Punishing people who don’t have biological offspring is creepy,” AOC wrote.
  9. From ‘threat to democracy’, Trump and Vance went to being ‘weird’, Politico reported commenting on the new campaign tussle.
  10. ‘Trump is weird’ plays way better than ‘Trump is a danger to democracy’ with low information voters, experts observed.