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By Flynn Nicholls
US News Reporter
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Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance laughed and said his feelings were not hurt by Vice President Kamala Harris calling him weird.
After a Saturday night rally with Donald Trump in St. Cloud, Minnesota, Vance and his family spent Sunday morning eating breakfast at a diner in neighboring Waite Park, where a Fox News reporter asked him about Harris' recent insult.
"There's a new insult that her [Harris] and her husband have been using, calling you weird. Does that hurt your feelings?" the reporter asked.
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Vance appeared to wince and smile while letting out a hearty laugh. "No, not at all. It doesn't hurt my feelings," he said.
The Harris campaign has taken "weird" as its new attack line against Trump and Vance. At a Massachusets campaign fundraiser on Saturday night, the vice president said: "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. I mean that's the box you put that in."
On Friday, the campaign sent out a press release titled: "JD Vance is a creep (who wants to ban abortion nationwide)." It listed some of his stances on restricting abortion access and wrote that it "isn't just bad policy — it's creepy, it's unacceptable, and voters won't stand for it."
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Meanwhile, a clip of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz — a reported contender to be Harris' running mate — calling Trump and Vance weird on MSNBC had been viewed more than 4.8 million times on his X account as of Monday.
"These are weird people on the other side," Walz said. "That's what it comes down to it. Don't, you know, get sugar coating this. These are weird ideas. Listen to them speak," he said, before giving their controversial stance on Russia and their respective backgrounds in real estate [Trump] and venture capitalism [Vance] as examples of weirdness.
Vance drew criticism last week when a 2021 interview resurfaced in which he told the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the country was run by "a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too."
"It's just a basic fact that if you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC [Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. And how does it make any sense that we've turned our country over to people who don't really have a direct stake in it?" he said.
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