Senator and Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance (R-OH) admitted he was “kind of pissed off” that he would not get the chance to debate current Vice President Kamala Harris after President Joe Biden’s abrupt exit from the 2024 campaign vaulted her to the top of the ticket.
Vance made the observation during a Monday rally in his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, some 24 hours after President Joe Biden had announced — in a letter posted to X — that he would “stand down” from the presidential race and would no longer be seeking the Democratic Party’s 2024 nomination.
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“By the way, speaking about take-backs, I was told I was gonna get to debate Kamala Harris, and now President Trump’s gonna get to debate her?!” he exclaimed, prompting laughter and applause from the audience. “I’m kind of pissed off about that if I’m being honest with you!”
Harris had already agreed to a vice presidential debate shortly after Vance officially accepted the nomination at the Republican National Convention last week, but the Trump campaign responded by essentially predicting that she would not be the vice presidential nominee and stating that it was not fair to commit to a debate when neither side could be certain who the Democratic candidate might be.
“We don’t know who the Democrat nominee for Vice President is going to be, so we can’t lock in a date before their convention. To do so would be unfair to Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker, Gretchen Whitmer, or whoever Kamala Harris picks as her running mate,” the campaign said in a statement.
