‘He Can Play The Game’: Harris Comms Director Says JD Vance Will Be A ‘Slick’ Debater Against Gov. Tim Walz

Harris-Walz campaign spokesperson Ian Sams said Monday that Republican vice presidential candidate and Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance has the skill to effectively misdirect voters during the upcoming debate against Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

Vance and Walz are set to face off during their only vice presidential debate on Tuesday night ahead of the 2024 election. Sams stated on MSNBC’s “Ana Cabrera Reports” that Vance is a “slick” politician who can effectively “play the game” on the debate stage, but assured he is an unpopular running mate.

“Something about J.D. Vance which I think people don’t realize, the more they see him, the more they dislike him,” Sams said. “He is one of the most unfavorably viewed running mates in modern history. Now look, he’s a slick guy. He’s a Yale Law School graduate who did a best-selling book and toured the country and has done so many interviews about it and about his candidacy for vice president. He’s gonna be slick, he misdirects, he’s dishonest, he can play the game onstage pretty well, but Governor Walz is gonna speak to the American people as he has during the course of this campaign.”

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Sams said Vance will present a “dark and divisive vision” for America during the debate while the American people can relate to Walz, who he referred to as an “average guy.”

“He’s just an average guy, coach, school teacher who I think a lot of people in this country can relate to,” Sams continued. “And so when he shares the positive vision of what he and the vice president are running on to help the American people, I think that it’ll help solidify the choice in this race and I think J.D. Vance will be saddled with having to clean up the mess that was Donald Trump’s first debate and push a pretty dark and divisive vision that the country is ready to turn the page on.”