Vice President JD Vance fired back at former VP Kamala Harris’s memoir claims, arguing her campaign failed not due to limited time but because voters actually heard her ‘word salad.’
Vice President JD Vance delivered a sharp rebuke to former Vice President Kamala Harris’s post-election analysis on Friday’s “The Ingraham Angle,” dismissing her claim that a short campaign window caused her 2024 presidential loss.
Discussing Harris’s new memoir, “107 Days,” and media tour where she has blamed the loss on the limited time she had to campaign, Vance stated, “My reaction is if you look at the polling… the problem is not that Kamala’s campaign was too short, it’s that it was too long.”
Vance asserted that as voters listened to Harris, her poll numbers dropped. “When people actually listened to what she had to say, her polling went down and down and down,” he claimed, adding that a longer campaign might have led to an “even bigger landslide” for Donald Trump and more Republican Senate seats.
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The Vice President criticized Harris’s communication style, contrasting her with previous Democratic leaders.
“Agree or disagree with Barack Obama or Bill Clinton, they actually had substance,” Vance said. “I listened to Kamala Harris for 90 seconds, and I actually feel like I’ve gotten dumber in the process, and I have no idea what she actually believes.”
Harris, who became the Democratic nominee in July 2024 after Joe Biden withdrew, has been frequently criticized for on-camera responses described as “word salads.” Post-election data cited by The New York Times showed Harris received 7 million fewer votes than Biden in 2020 and lost ground to Trump in 80% of counties nationwide.
Harris has also faced backlash from within her own party, with some Democrats telling Politico her memoir and media tour are “unhelpful and divisive.” Her campaign struggled to connect with voters’ top concerns—the economy, inflation, and immigration—while focusing on policies like race-based appeals and refusing to distance herself from controversial positions like funding transgender surgeries for illegal migrants.
Vance concluded that Harris’s primary challenge is her failure to articulate a clear viewpoint. “That’s the problem with Kamala Harris, and it’s gonna continue to be her problem unless she actually learns how to develop a viewpoint… Just say what you actually believe. Don’t do this word salad, talking around in circles. It doesn’t work, and it’s why she didn’t win.”
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