Philadelphia — Last week, Ohio senator J. D. Vance was warming up to his new role on the Donald Trump campaign, crisscrossing the country to counter-program Kamala Harris's battleground-state campaign blitz.
"Everywhere she goes, chaos and uncertainty follow," Vance told a crowd of supporters and reporters at a campaign event in South Philadelphia last Tuesday, before handing the floor to local Philadelphia residents who have been affected by crime and drug addiction under the current administration.
"It is families like many of those who stand behind me today who have suffered the most, and now, for the past two weeks, Kamala Harris has been saying that she wants a promotion," Vance said in remarks that hit the Democratic nominee and her new running mate, Tim Walz, on their liberal governing records and media-averse campaign strategy.
After a rocky rollout, Vance's team has worked in recent days to reset the narrative by sending him across the country to make issue-focused campaign stops, blanketing the news cycle with sit-down interviews on major networks, and trying to manifest a new nickname for him in the press as "policy attack dog." The streamlined nature of Vance's recent solo campaign stops has also brought into focus his stylistic differences from Trump, whose lengthy public remarks typically lack both message discipline and a consistent line of attack against his opponent.
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