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A CNN political commenter pushed back on Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance on Friday night after Vance appeared to defend Donald Trump's resharing of a sexually demeaning image on social media.
On Wednesday morning, Trump shared another Truth Social user's screenshot of a post on X. The image showed Harris and Hillary Clinton with the following text: “Funny how b---jobs impacted both their careers differently…”
On Friday, CNN host Phil Mattingly asked Vance about the post.
"If you look at Donald Trump's full campaign appearances and, yes, his social media appearances, what you see is two things: a guy with an agenda to lower prices and bring back American prosperity and a political candidate who isn't stodgy, who likes to have some fun and tell some jokes."
Vance said he believes "That's how you lift people up."
CNN political commentator S.E. Cupp explained that Vance appears to be deploying the tactic of "Who would you like to have a beer with?"
"That's not what we're talking about," she emphasized. "We're not talking about the difference between a candidate who can laugh at himself, crack a couple jokes, hang out and have a beer with and someone who is stuffy and serious.
"We're talking about a guy, as you said, who mocks disabled journalists, who mocks [prisoners of war], who mocks women's faces, who mocks the wives of candidates, running against him. It's really gross and it's not a missed opportunity to talk about policy. It's quite literally driving suburban women in the swing states that he will need to win away from Donald Trump. It is repelling the very people he will need to win."
Cupp noted polls back up her statement — "I'm not making it up" — but that Trump doesn't seem to pay any mind, or perhaps doesn't have enough restraint to avoid going to such places.
