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Vance reportedly told donors Harris was threat in new blow to Trump campaign | US elections 2024 | The Guardian

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JD Vance reportedly admitted to Republican donors this weekend that Kamala Harris was a threat and a “sucker punch”, the latest in a string of recent and past remarks that have been seen to undermine the campaign and that led Donald Trump to try to soften his vice-presidential pick’s description of Democrats as “childless cat ladies”. The leaked remarks about Harris were themselves quickly followed on Tuesday by the publication of a previously unseen video of Vance telling an interviewer that not having “kids in your life” makes “people more sociopathic” and makes the US a little bit “less mentally stable”. “You go on Twitter, and almost always, the people who are most deranged and most psychotic are people who don’t have kids at home,” he added in the video, which was released by the Kamala Harris campaign and is undated. The recorded audio of Vance telling donors at a fundraiser in Golden Valley, Minnesota, on Saturday that “all of us were hit with a little bit of a political sucker

Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance introduces Donald Trump during a rally in St Cloud, Minnesota, on Saturday. Photograph: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images View image in fullscreen Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance introduces Donald Trump during a rally in St Cloud, Minnesota, on Saturday. Photograph: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images US elections 2024 This article is more than 1 year old Vance reportedly told donors Harris was threat in new blow to Trump campaign This article is more than 1 year old Remarks by Ohio senator emerge as Trump attempts to soften VP pick’s ‘childless

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