Chris Hayes laughed a lot as he bluntly assessed the situation for Donald Trump’s running mate on Thursday, declaring, “JD, Vance is not going to win on the weirdness issue,” before going into detail about the myriad ways Vance is making the problem even worse for himself.
“Last night, Trump’s running mate went on Fox News so Laura Ingraham could fill in for him. Vance was given this simple suggestion about how Republicans could better appeal to suburban women,” Hayes explained, “and then things got weird.”
Hayes then introduced the exchange, with Ingraham asking, verbatim, “Senator, one of my dear friends said to me tonight, all these suburban women, all these suburban women, they only care about abortion, and they don’t understand that the decision is now up to the states, not a national ban, but a national ban, folks, if something is going to be banned nationally, it’s up to the states. What do you say to the suburban women out there who are marinated in this propaganda?”
After an awkward pause, Vance replied, “Well, first of all, I don’t think so. Laura, I think most subordinate women care about the normal things that are important to most Americans.”
“The normal stuff,” Hayes said after the clip ended. “I would argue that most women in this country, yes, most voters, think it’s perfectly normal to be concerned about some bearded politician telling them what they can and can’t do with their bodies. But apparently JD Vance knows better, even his polls consistently show that abortion rights are among the most important issues facing Americans, and these ballot initiatives enshrining abortion rights continue to garner massive support among voters, even in deep red states.”
Hayes noted that this appearance on Fox News comes after “dozens of other statements have resurfaced that are just as strange and alien to normal people, from his disparaging comments about so-called childless cat ladies to his participation in a strange podcast conversation about, quote, postmenopausal women to his faux-folk fundraising email in which he describes how ‘my Mamaw never beats around the bush and neither do I.'”
Hayes noted at the time that even Trump himself apparently does not want to be associated with Vance, pointing to a recent New York Times report about a meeting Trump had with donors where he was asked about the “strange” description and told them, “That’s not about me, that’s what they’re saying about JD.”
“Reassuring thing,” Hayes joked.
“Vance’s history as a really, really strange person has shaped the American public’s perception of him and led to polls portraying him as the most unpopular vice president in history,” Hayes continued, citing polls that back this up.
“Things are not going well for JD Vance,” and to reinforce his point, Hayes ended the segment by displaying a photo posted on Twitter of Republican Congressman Michael G. Waltz with Vance – below a newspaper headline describing how well the economy is doing under Joe Biden.
Watch the full clip below:
