When it comes to J.D. Vance, Vice President Kamala Harris might have spoken too soon.<\/p>\n
Soon after former President Donald Trump announced Vance as his running mate in the 2024 election, Harris called the Ohio senator to congratulate him and \u201cexpress her hope that the two can meet in the vice presidential debate,\u201d NBC News<\/a> reported Monday.<\/p>\n If President Joe Biden is still in the race, and Harris is still in the No. 2 slot on the Democratic ticket as November gets closer, she might get more than she\u2019s bargaining for.<\/p>\n For most Americans, Vance, the freshman senator from Ohio<\/a>, is nowhere near the kind of household name that Kamala Harris is, but a short compilation of videos from Vance\u2019s public appearances, published by The Daily Caller News Foundation on Monday, gives a working introduction.<\/p>\n The five-minute video begins with Vance on the debate stage with now-former Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan, his opponent during his debut 2022 campaign for Senate. It ends with a clip from February 2023, showing Vance excoriating Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg during a Fox News interview.<\/p>\n Check it out below:<\/p>\n\n Vance comes across as knowledgeable, competent and likable \u2014 even beyond the confines of conservative politics. Those aren\u2019t words often applied to Kamala Harris in public, outside of her background in criminal law.<\/p>\n Harris is also not known for her skills as a serious debater in the political realm. Her best-known moment on a debate stage came during a 2019 Democratic primary debate when she essentially smeared then-nomination rival Joe Biden as a racist for opposing mandatory school busing.<\/p>\n \u201cI do not believe you\u2019re a racist,\u201d she began \u2014 which gave the game away.<\/p>\n Anyone else remember when Kamala Harris accused Joe Biden of being a racist during the debates? pic.twitter.com\/wePszWfEvx<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Proud Elephant (@ProudElephantUS) July 15, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n Her 2020 debate against then-Vice President Mike Pence was more memorable for a fly that landed on Pence\u2019s forehead<\/a> than for anything either candidate said \u2014 though Harris\u2019 imperious, condescending \u201cMr. Vice President, I\u2019m speaking\u201d moments might have been effective in establishing her as a formidable presence, but they might just as well have rubbed all but committed Democrats the wrong way.<\/p>\n\n The dynamics of a Harris-Vance debate will be different, too.<\/p>\n Pence was defending an administration caught in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic \u2014 almost the first half-hour of the 90-minute debate<\/a> was dominated by COVID. Even the sterling economic<\/a> and foreign policy record<\/a> the Trump White House had posted to that point was taking a back seat to the contemporary concerns of fall 2020.<\/p>\n In a Vance-Harris contest, it will be Harris who is defending \u2014 and she\u2019ll have far more openings for Vance to attack \u2014 the border invasion<\/a>, inflation<\/a>, Biden\u2019s stunning weakness on foreign policy \u2014 and far fewer accomplishments to fall back on.<\/p>\n As The Daily Caller video makes clear, Vance is an articulate spokesman for the conservative side from racial issues (he\u2019s married to an Indian-American woman and the father of biracial children), to border security, to denouncing the political prosecutions of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n Those are all likely to be contested grounds in any debate between the vice presidential candidates, and Vance has clearly shown he can hold his own.<\/p>\n After watching Kamala Harris as Joe Biden\u2019s vice president, Americans should have plenty of reasons to doubt she can hold hers.<\/p>\n If Biden is still on the ticket come the fall, if Harris is still the Democratic candidate for vice president, Vance doesn\u2019t just present a challenge to her keeping the job. He presents a threat \u2014 and it\u2019s enormous.<\/p>\n This article appeared originally on The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Quick Video of JD Vance Shows What Kamala Harris Will Have to Debate \u2013 Enormous Threat to Biden-Harris Ticket<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When it comes to J.D. Vance, Vice President Kamala Harris might have spoken too soon. Soon after former<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n