Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance said he has a “low” opinion of Republican former Rep. Liz Cheney and claimed that she is motivated by “an obsessive hatred” toward those who contributed to her reelection loss in 2022, rather than by a love of country.
“I’ve known a lot of people in Washington who’ve served with Liz Cheney, and what they would tell you to a person is that Liz Cheney is motivated by an obsessive hatred of the people who cost her Wyoming congressional seat. She is not motivated by a love of this country. She’s a resentful, petty, small person, and if Kamala Harris wants to parade her around, she’s welcome to,” Vance said in response to a reporter’s question in Waukesha.
As he often does on the trail, Vance said former President Donald Trump is a symbol of the “big tent common sense team,” listing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp as examples.
Cheney, who has endorsed Harris, is campaigning with the vice president tomorrow in suburban counties of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Vance also commented on Trump working as a fry attendant at McDonald’s earlier Sunday and suggested, as Trump has claimed, that Harris didn’t actually work there.
“President Trump, he’s made it hard for Kamala Harris to run for president, but he made it a little bit harder, because I don’t know if you saw today, he went and worked at McDonald’s for about 15 minutes,” Vance said, as the crowd loudly cheered. “I caught him on the drive over here, and I said, ‘Sir, I think you’ve worked in McDonald’s about 15 minutes longer than Kamala Harris did.’”
A campaign official told CNN that Harris worked at a McDonald’s in Alameda, California, during the summer of 1983, when she was still a student at Howard University in Washington. She worked the register and manned the fry and ice cream machines, according to the official.