'He can’t count': JD Vance botches video blaming Harris for egg prices

23 September 2024

On Saturday, September 21, the Trump War Room account on X, formerly Twitter, posted a video of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), blaming Democratic nominee Kamala Harris for grocery prices.

But according to The New Republic's Hafiz Rashid, the video suffers from major flaws.

In the video, Vance is seen in a Pennsylvania grocery store — where he claims, "Eggs when Kamala Harris took office, were short of a $1.50 a dozen. Now, a dozen eggs will cost you around $4 thanks to Kamala Harris' inflationary policies. Pennsylvania, actually, has seen some of the worst grocery price increases of the entire nation. It's because she cast the deciding vote on the Inflation Explosion Act."

But Rashid observes that in the video, Vance is "holding a package that clearly looks like two dozen eggs, not one dozen" — a fact that X users were quick to point out.

One of them said of Vance, "He also can't count either since he's holding what looks to be a package of more than two dozen eggs. The lies just keep coming."

Rashid explains, "It's no secret that grocery prices in the U.S. have gone up in the past few years. But the Republican vice presidential nominee should have probably thought to look at the prices behind him before waxing poetic about high prices…. The inflation in grocery costs has less to do with the president’s actions and more to do with the corporations that own grocery stores."

The New Republic journalist adds, "But Vance missed what would have been a very easy jab at Harris, and the campaign somehow didn’t see the clear problems in the video they posted. And yet, Vance and Donald Trump remain neck and neck with Harris and Tim Walz in the polls."

Watch the full video below or at this link.

https://www.alternet.org/jd-vance-video-harris-eggs

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