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With Vance’s ascent, Pennsylvanians reexamine Trump’s views on women
The Washington Post ^ | August 3, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT | Maeve Reston

Posted on 08/03/2024 4:50:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. — More than a week after Kamala Harris’s debut as the likely Democratic presidential nominee, the buzz around her candidacy is still fresh here in the collar counties surrounding Philadelphia. Though many voters acknowledged they know little about her or her ideas, they used words like “exciting” and “energizing” to describe the political moment.

But the politician everyone really wanted to talk about was Sen. JD Vance, with his selection as former president Donald Trump’s running mate sparking a new chapter in the long-running conversation about Trump’s views of women.

Vance’s comments from 2021 suggesting that Americans without children “don’t really have a direct stake” in the country’s future went viral days ago. But unfortunately for Trump, the maelstrom surrounding his running mate is still stirring in this perennial battleground. In interviews with more than two dozen voters, it was clear that Vance’s views have renewed unease about Trump’s judgment, his past statements about women and his record on abortion. Almost universally, voters also said they were bracing for Trump to unleash personal attacks on Harris.

“Now that you’ve got Kamala in there, you’ve got a whole different ballgame,” said Mike Dumin, a 68-year-old independent from Lansdale. “He is going to attack her in ways that are going to be distasteful to most normal people except his base. He can’t help himself. He cannot stand the fact that it’s a woman, especially a woman who is a minority who could beat him.”


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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: washingtoncompost
Corporate gaslight press article presented under topic "humor" to grant it the respect it deserves.
1 posted on 08/03/2024 4:50:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I guess they must not believe all the crap about Trump and Women coming out of the Far-left turd rollers Feral courts. It sure took them a long time to come around to the truth. The problem isn’t Trump. It’s the greedy, gold-digging women.


2 posted on 08/03/2024 4:55:48 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (My Pronouns are : He Be, She Be, We Be, and HeBeJeebees.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Trump's choice of Vance is fully in recognition of his own mortality and the necessity to attempt to carry the MAGA movement into the future!
3 posted on 08/03/2024 4:56:12 PM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom line")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The propaganda media has spent more time beating everyone over the head with their fixation on a years-old silly comment from Vance, than they spent on the near assassination of our once and future president—or on the unbelievable, highly questionable circumstances that led to the shooting. The propagandists still have way too power to try to remake reality and reset priorities to favor their side.


4 posted on 08/03/2024 4:58:28 PM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There is a whole wide spectrum of attitudes held by women, all the way from “childless cat ladies” to the “supermoms” and the accomplished doers in the world of business. Suburban housewives vary very nearly as widely as the overall cohort of females in this hodgepodge of political and moral opinions, with the exception that they either are married, or have been at some time, and the very institution of marriage sets them apart from the classic definition of the grumpy old spinster, or the recent college girl that is still filled with misplaced idealism untested in the real world.


5 posted on 08/03/2024 5:00:40 PM PDT by alloysteel (Most people slog through life without ever knowing the wonders of true insanity.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is another reason the policy should be “everyone human being is equal under the law. The Bill of Rights applies equally regardless of gender. We are all Americans”.

I do not support discrimination, nor do I support special treatment.

In today’s America that is not what they want to hear but it it the best and fairest policy.


6 posted on 08/03/2024 5:00:45 PM PDT by Thorium90
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A unit of the propaganda arm of The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate obeys its criminal masters.


7 posted on 08/03/2024 5:06:47 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

As a single white male who is nearing his mid-forties, reasonably successful, and keeps himself in better shape than most; my views on women isn’t, and will never be influenced by media, politicians, television, or the internet, they are shaped by reality. My dating pool is a Venn Diagram of obese l women (brides of The State), single moms (entitled brides of The State), and liberal spinsters. The treatment I’ve received from these women has been a 31 flavors of f*cked up, which is why I’ve largely walked away from trying to find someone. If/when J.D. Vance, or even Donald Trump make some comment about cat ladies, I, along with several million other not-batsh*t insane people, know which women they are talking about, and which they are not.


8 posted on 08/03/2024 5:14:05 PM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: Antihero101607

Wow sounds like my average applicant for one of my vacant aparments. 145 inquiries since late February. Of those, only THREE had:

Credit score above 600
Don’t smoke (anything)
Have the income to afford the rent (3X income to rent)
Have good previous rental history

The entitlement since the Scamdemic is off the charts.


9 posted on 08/03/2024 5:31:08 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There is no crying in baseball and there should be no gentle-handling for women in politics. “Politics is war by other means,” and the way we practice it in this country —and I am not really happy about this — is not for the faint of heart. “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” Besides, some of the foulest personalities in politics happen to be women. Remember Tlaib from Michigan on Trump: “Impeach that m**********r!” What a lady!


10 posted on 08/03/2024 5:33:23 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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Media is comical now. It's become a game of guess what they'll say next. Those paying attention always get it right. Too bad you can't bet on it.
11 posted on 08/03/2024 5:37:08 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
In interviews with more than two dozen voters, it was clear that Vance’s views have renewed unease about Trump’s judgment, his past statements about women and his record on abortion.

So, the Washington Post went out and found some voters who were never going to vote for Trump anyway and got them to dump all over his VP nominee.  Brilliant journalism.  /s

12 posted on 08/03/2024 5:41:20 PM PDT by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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So, the Washington Post went out and found some voters who were never going to vote for Trump anyway and got them to dump all over his VP nominee. Brilliant journalism.

I give you Maeve Reston.

Brilliant journalist propagandist.

Attention whore.

Cat lady.

White Woman For Harris!

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13 posted on 08/03/2024 6:43:37 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

was JDV always the pick from the beginning?

did the Assassination attempt had anything to do with the pick?

was JDV’s pick tailored to Joe being in the race?

i wasn’t paying attention if those points were discussed


14 posted on 08/03/2024 7:58:51 PM PDT by VAFreedom (Wuhan Pneumonia-Made by CCP, Copyright Xi Jingping)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Mike Dumin, a 68-year-old independent from Lansdale. “He is going to attack her in ways that are going to be distasteful to most normal people except his base.”

Mike, aren’t you precious. Let’s be extra nice to the Indian calling us Hitler so Mike and his ilk won’t be offended.


15 posted on 08/04/2024 2:55:37 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yeah, keep up with the cat lady thing. It’s going over like a dead cat.


16 posted on 08/04/2024 3:26:05 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Thorium90

“The Bill of Rights applies equally regardless of gender. We are all Americans”.

The Bill of Rights applies equally regardless of sex or sexual characteristics. We are all Americans.

The term “Gender” is a misappropriation being leveraged for the attainment of special privileges.


17 posted on 08/04/2024 4:24:58 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: VAFreedom

All good questions. Not sure if any of them matter now ‘cause I don’t see PDJT replacing JD at this point in time. If that happened, it would make PDJT look weak. Trump overcame bad stuff, e.g., “the Bush tape”, in 2016 and it seems that JD has the same FU attitude that could get him through.

I was definitely not for JD at the beginning, but I think he’s tough and bold and could be OK.

I can’t imagine they didn’t seriously consider the probability of Joe dropping out; his afflictions were so obvious.


18 posted on 08/04/2024 4:33:37 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's not as if Biden has the nuclear codes or anything. 😳)
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To: Nervous Tick

Taking a selfie.

How appropriate.


19 posted on 08/04/2024 4:46:01 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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