October 20, 2024, presidential campaign news

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said he had a “low” opinion of former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, claiming she was motivated by “an obsessive hatred” of those who contributed to her 2022 re-election defeat, and not from a love of country.

“I know a lot of people in Washington who served with Liz Cheney, and what they would tell a person is that Liz Cheney is driven by an obsessive hatred of the people who cost her her congressional seat in Wyoming. She is not motivated by love for this country. She's a resentful, petty, little person, and if Kamala Harris wants to show her around, she's more than welcome to do so,” Vance said in response to a reporter's question in Waukesha.

As he often does on the trail, Vance said former President Donald Trump was a symbol of the “big tent of common sense” and counted Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley , on Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, as examples.

Cheney, who supported Harris, will campaign alongside the vice president tomorrow in suburban counties in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.

Vance also commented on Trump working as a french fry worker at McDonald's earlier Sunday, hinting, as Trump had claimed, that Harris didn't actually work there.

“President Trump, he 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 that he worked at McDonald's for like 15 minutes,” said Vance said as the crowd cheered loudly. “I caught him on the way here and said, 'Sir, I think you worked at McDonald's about 15 minutes longer than Kamala Harris.'”

A campaign official told CNN that Harris worked at a McDonald's in Alameda, California, in the summer of 1983, while she was a student at Howard University in Washington. According to the officer, she worked the cash register and operated the frying and ice cream machines.