Major news networks have launched a new messaging campaign portraying Trump-Vance as “weird,” with two networks each using the term more than 160 times on Monday alone.
The term has risen in popularity among Democrats and the media, particularly CNN and MSNBC, and has become a commonly used attack term since President Joe Biden announced he would not seek reelection. Approval Vice President Kamala Harris, Time Magazine reportMinnesota's Democratic governor, Tim Walz, is credited with starting the trend on July 23. exterior According to Morning Joe, multiple I will report. (RELATED: MSNBC guest claims J.D. Vance's desire to have more kids is “kind of racist”)
Since former President Donald Trump selected Republican Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio as his running mate on July 15, the first day of the Republican National Convention, interviews and speeches from Vance's pre-senatorial victory have resurfaced, including one in which he questioned prominent childless Democrats, including Harris, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. The resurfaced comments have led to Vance being labeled a “nutcase,” while Trump's references to movie villain Hannibal Lecter and sharks at the rally have been used by Democrats to justify calling the former president a “nutcase.”
According to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation, MSNBC used the term 179 times in reference to Trump or Vance across a variety of occasions, including panel discussions, aired video clips and direct comments by network hosts and guests. Monday's episode of “Inside with Jen Psaki,” hosted by Biden's former White House press secretary, used the term 35 times in reference to Trump or Vance.
As the Grabien data below shows, CNN and MSNBC have been the driving forces behind the “Vance is a nutjob” talking point: Over the past two days, both networks have aired the DNC's claim more than 150 times. pic.twitter.com/OsAJhXaKYt
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 29, 2024
“Morning Joe” used the term 32 times in reference to Trump or Vance, according to the DCNF investigation. “Morning Joe” viewers also reported that Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Direct On Monday, he also used the word “weird” to describe Trump and Vance.
“I think my colleagues are pointing out the obvious,” Gov. Whitmer told MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire, “which is that the agenda, the way you're speaking to people, the way you're addressing people is weird. It's weird. It's weird.”
While MSNBC used the word about 7.5 times per hour, CNN was not far behind, using the word 170 times on Monday during programming related to Trump or Vance, where the network's viewers were exposed to Democratic lawmakers, the DCNF found. Eric Swalwell and Barbara Lee California lawmakers have hurled the term at both Trump and Vance.
“I don't think Kamala Harris would pick someone as weird and creepy as J.D. Vance,” Swalwell said Monday on “CNN This Morning.” (RELATED: 'Apocalyptic': MSNBC Panel Dedicates Segment to Analyzing Prayer at Trump Rally)
“The addition of someone like J.D. Vance to this list of candidates is indicative of what kind of person Donald Trump is,” Lee told CNN News Central on Monday. “The selection of J.D. Vance, in my opinion, is really indicative or indicative of what Mr. Trump believes. Mr. Vance is, as the campaign says, very unusual, but also very unprepared and in many ways very frightening.”
Tom Elliott, founder of Gravien News, said the two networks described Trump or Vance as odd more than 150 times in their coverage on Saturday and Monday morning. post About X.
“Typically, the host will ask a Democrat, 'A lot of Democrats say J.D. Vance is just a weirdo, but what do you think… is he really a freaking weirdo?' and the host will inevitably agree that Vance is a weirdo,” Elliott told DCNF. “There's a pretense of journalism, but the point is to set up the segment in a way that leaves a ton of 'J.D. Vance is a weirdo' comments stuck in the viewers' minds.”
CNN, MSNBC and the Trump Vance campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the DCNF.
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