Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said Sunday that giving Vice President Kamala Harris control over inflation policy is like giving Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted pedophile who died in jail before he could face trial on federal sex-trafficking charges, control over human trafficking policy.
Arguing Harris got “a bit of a sugar high” in the polls a couple weeks ago after launching her campaign, Vance said internal Trump data has shown she “has already leveled off.”
“If you talk to insiders in the Kamala Harris campaign, they’re very worried about where they are, because the American people just don’t buy the idea that Kamala Harris, who’s been vice president for three and a half years, is somehow going to tackle the inflation crisis in a way tomorrow that she hasn’t for the past 1,300 days,” Vance told Shannon Bream on Fox News Sunday.
“Giving Kamala Harris control over inflation policy, Shannon, it’s like giving Jeffrey Epstein control over human trafficking policy. The American people are much smarter than that,” Vance said.
As CNN’s Jennifer Agiesta reported, the latest CNN Poll of Polls shows Harris at 50% support to former president Donald Trump’s 48%, incorporating two new polls from CBS News/YouGov and from ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos, both of which found Harris holding a narrow lead nationally.
Vance claimed “polls tend to radically overstate Democrats” and insisted the Trump campaign is in a “very, very good” place.
