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struggle4progress

(124,896 posts)
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 03:50 PM Oct 3

Vance's new media strategy

When Vance takes questions from the press, supporters jeer the questions and cheer him on

By Adam Wren
09/28/2024 08:35 AM EDT
Updated: 09/28/2024 09:18 AM EDT

... Inside an open-air barn at the Northwest Michigan Fairgrounds, Vance, who favors questions from local reporters before national ones at his events, called on the Traverse City Record-Eagle reporter, who identified himself as the “hometown” scribe.

Before he even got his question out — a relatively anodyne one about housing costs — the reporter endured a hail of boos as the Republican vice presidential nominee smiled.

“We’re having fun,” Vance told the 65-year-old staff writer Peter Kobs, who knew many of the people in this venue. “You’re allowed to ask your question; they’re allowed to tell you how they think about it. That’s OK. This is America” ...

Kobs said he had interviewed some 20 people in the room beforehand — people he knew from the community — and all were polite. “It’s the herd mentality,” he said of their sudden transformation ...

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/28/jd-vance-press-hostile-00181455
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Vance's new media strategy (Original Post) struggle4progress Oct 3 OP
JD Vance reminds me of stories that picture and explains about men who have one outstanding trait. chouchou Oct 3 #1
Colbert had fun with JD wanting to have fun LetMyPeopleVote Oct 3 #2
More than a year ago. "new" is fake. Please make the title more accurate, like "year old". . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 3 #3
Vance is a liar LetMyPeopleVote Oct 7 #4

chouchou

(2,468 posts)
1. JD Vance reminds me of stories that picture and explains about men who have one outstanding trait.
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 04:04 PM
Oct 3

Creepy and Dark.

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