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submitted 1 month ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Just about every time J.D. Vance — the most unpopular vice presidential nominee in American history — opens his mouth, he ignites a firestorm of criticism and likely shaves another point off the Republican presidential ticket’s polling numbers.

On Sunday, in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Vance admitted that he and Donald Trump made up a baseless and racist story about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.

“If I have to create stories so that the American media actually has to pay attention to the suffering of American people, then that’s what I’m going to do,” said Vance, a U.S. Senator representing Ohio.

Ironically, Vance’s attempt to point out imagined “suffering” has led to actual suffering by his own constituents.

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[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 170 points 1 month ago

If they both made it up, why aren't there calls for both to resign?

[-] ug02x@programming.dev 15 points 1 month ago

A conservative king can lie as he pleases it would seem, but apparently their VPs are expendable.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

We already learned that in the aftermath of Jan 6th.

My question is why do these people continue lining up to serve said “king”?

[-] ug02x@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

Maybe that's why they ended up with Vance as the pick? A relative newcomer who'd risk getting sacrificed to become a more hosehold name? I can certainly imagine others looking on at the at end of Pence's tenure and choosing to avoid the position.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

If anything, I’d imagine they picked Vance because he was willing and eager to do whatever it takes to win.

There were a number of other choices lined up too: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-vp-pick-2024-candidates-odds.html

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