MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace said Monday that Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, “effed up” by calling Vice President Harris “trash.”
“In my humble view, lights out,” Wallace said on “Deadline: White House.”
“Women, you can disagree with us. We’ve actually learned to take it for our whole careers all the time in every forum. But you call us trash? Oh, oh, oh J.D. Vance, you just effed up in a way I’ve never seen in my political life, and I worked for Sarah Palin,” Wallace added.
“I mean, what just happened?”
While rallying supporters in Atlanta earlier Monday, Vance said that “in two days, we are gonna take out the trash in Washington, D.C., and the trash’s name is Kamala Harris.”
Vance was riffing off of recent comments from President Biden in which he appeared to compare former President Trump’s supporters to garbage. Vance said earlier in his Atlanta appearance that Harris’s “boss, just a couple of days ago, said, not just a criticism of Donald Trump or of me, but said that the people who support Donald J. Trump are ‘garbage.’”
Biden last week in a post on the social platform X said that he was referring to the “hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump’s supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage — which is the only word I can think of to describe it.”
Vance’s remarks came one day before Election Day, with polling in multiple swing states very tight and Harris and Trump now tied in an average of national polls from The Hill/Decision Desk HQ at 48.4 percent support.
The Hill has reached out to Palin and a spokesperson for Vance.
