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Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance was to hold a rally Wednesday evening in Arizona with the conservative youth group Turning Point USA.

The rally was expected to start around 8 p.m. Eastern Time.

Turning Point is a conservative nonprofit founded more than a decade ago by Donald Trump ally Charlie Kirk. The organization encourages young people to adopt conservative values.

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Vance's rally follows multiple recent campaign events in the battleground state, including Trump rallies in Glendale and near the border in Cochise County.

Watch the speech live below or at this link.

The head of the American Federation of Teachers came out swinging on CNN in response to former President Donald Trump's running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), attacking her in newly unearthed footage, saying, “If she wants to brainwash and destroy the mind of children, she should have some of her own and leave ours the hell alone."

It's yet another case of Vance throwing shade on women for not being moms, which has landed him in hot water across the campaign trail — although he is disputing that that is what he meant to say.

"I didn't criticize Randi Weingarten for not having kids," said Vance in a tape played on CNN's "The Source." "I criticized her for wanting to brainwash mine."

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Weingarten was not impressed with his explanation.

"Well, first, he criticized — maybe he didn't listen to his own tape from 2021," said Weingarten. "But the fact he doubled down on teachers today, and, you know, it's just pathetic. Like, he has no idea how I teach and what I taught. He should have come into one of my classrooms. If I may be teaching, again, this spring, college teaching this spring, I'll invite him to a classroom. I taught at Cornell last spring. My kids, just FYI were champions, state and city champions, in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights."

"We teach kids how to think, not what to think," said Weingarten. "We teach kids to critically think. We teach kids compassion. We teach kids caring. We teach kids communication skills. We teach kids skills so that they can thrive in America. So I have no idea why he would even think that that kind of teaching is brainwashing. I think there must be something wrong with this guy."

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During an appearance on "Morning Joe" on Wednesday morning, MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend expressed shock that another damaging video of Republican Party vice president candidate J.D. Vance has surfaced which will force the campaign of Donald Trump to remain on defense.

On Tuesday another clip of Vance attacking childless women surfaced, this one from during his run for the Senate seat he now occupies.

In the clip shared by "Morning Joe" fill-in host Katty Kay, Vance launched a broadside at teachers who don't have children of their own, telling a crowd he thinks they are "trying to brainwash the minds of our children."

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He also singled out Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers, and smeared her by exclaiming, "If she wants to brainwash and destroy the mind of children, she should have some of her own and leave ours the hell alone."

As Sanders Townsend pointed out, this is just creating more problems for Donald Trump's campaign when it comes to women voters.

"I don't know many children J.D. Vance himself has had," she began. "My understanding is his wife had the children so, you know, there we go. But you don't have a stake in the game here, America, that is just weird. It is weird and it is concerning."

"This all goes back to this is why vetting is important," she suggested. "I recently spoke to Eric Holder, former AG who did the vetting for the Harris/Walz campaign and I asked him, 'Are you sure you got everything?' because look at these videos coming out watching the videos with J.D. Vance. And he said he watched a lot of YouTube videos and he thinks he got it all but you can never be sure."

"I just — I have to wonder what was the vetting of J.D. Vance because this is simply insane," she concluded.
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Former President Donald Trump's running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) is outraged over a new superseding indictment filed by special counsel Jack Smith against the former president, reported NBC News on Tuesday — though, by his own admission, he hasn't read the whole document.

"I don't think that it changes anything legally. Looks like Jack Smith doing more of what he does, which is filing these sort of lawsuits in an effort to influence the election," Vance said, according to the report.

As Vance deplaned in Nashville, Tennessee, he acknowledged he had not read the full indictment.

Vance said Smith "should be ashamed of himself, but it’s one of the reasons why we have to win, because he should not be anywhere near power."

"Of course, the reason the Supreme Court threw out his lawsuit is because they said it implicated the president’s official acts," Vance added.

The Supreme Court did not throw out Smith's case, it ruled that presidents have a presumption of immunity for official acts and ordered District Judge Tanya Chutkan to review the case along that standard.

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Smith filed the new indictment, regarding the election interference plot in 2020 that led up to Jan. 6, in response to the Supreme Court's ruling removing the aspects of the case that center on Trump's alleged ordering of the Justice Department to engage in corrupt acts. Proving such a thing would be impossible with the Supreme Court's new immunity parameters. Other aspects of the case, including those that center on evidence of bad acts Trump engaged in as a candidate, remain in the indictment.

Additionally, the special counsel is in the process of appealing the dismissal of his other case against Trump, regarding classified documents removed and hidden at Mar-a-Lago, after a Trump-appointed judge decided Smith was improperly appointed.

Whether you choose Geno's or Pat's won't get you into serious political trouble in a city known for its cheesesteaks. But the Philadelphia Inquirer headline left social media users gasping with a story reading: "JD Vance gets a cheesesteak at Pat's: 'He asked about why we don't have Swiss cheese.'"

The headline has since been changed to something shorter, but the notion that Vance could even entertain such a cheese drew internet side-eyes.

The report revealed that Vance inquired about a big no-no in the cheesesteak world: Swiss cheese.

“He asked why we don’t have Swiss cheese,” Pat’s manager, Sammy Garcia, told the paper with a laugh. “We thought that was funny.”

Pat's claims to be the originator of the infamous culinary delight, but competitor Geno's maintains that provolone cheese is also acceptable. Vance wanted neither, instead requesting the Swiss. It certainly isn't unheard of, particularly for those making the cheesesteak outside of Pennsylvania. But it was enough of a faux pas that locals might roll their eyes.

The cheese mistake goes back to 2004, when then-Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) asked for Swiss cheese on his cheesteak, and it became a major political scandal.

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A video from WUSA9 revealed that Vance told the men at the window that he personally hates Swiss and that it's "a thing" not to order it that way. He wanted to know why.

The thought that Vance may have ordered such a cheese was an offense that some simply couldn't stomach. X users rushed to social media to crack jokes.

Anthony Michael Kreis, a Georgia law professor, explained that in Philly, they refer to Swiss cheese preferences as "an alternative lifestyle."

Philadelphia Phillies fan and ex-Defense Department guy, Joseph Gruber exclaimed, "OMG Do these staffers not prep these folks? Also, yes, @JDVance, swiss cheese at Pat's is insulting you dumb t---."

Writer and editor-in-chief Mike McGann said that "real Philly peeps don't go to Pat's. And they don't inquire about Swiss cheese. Trump will lose the sovereign state of Cheesesteak (Philly and the collar counties) by at least 20 points (maybe 30)."

CPAC director Andrew Langer rushed to Vance's defense on X, fact-checking the story promising that the Ohio Senator never ordered his cheesesteak with Swiss while a religious influencer claimed it was a lie made up by "liberals."

Donald Trump's running mate is less popular with American voters than Sarah Palin was as she ran alongside Sen. John McCain, polls and analyses show.

FiveThirtyEight, an aggregator of national polls, found this week that Vance's net favorability has plummeted six points from -3.3 percent on July 18 to -9.3 on Wednesday, Aug. 14.

A New Republic analysis declared Thursday, "Vance is possibly the least popular vice presidential candidate of the 21st century."

Vance's unfavorably numbers jumped more than 13 points in less than a month, with 28.9 percent of voters viewing him poorly in a July poll but 42.4 percent feeling the same way in August, according to the analysis.

The number of voters who view Vance favorably increased only 7 points from 25.6 in July to 33.1 percent in August, FiveThirtyEight reports.

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The increase in both numbers reflects Vance's growing exposure as the Republican nominee running alongside Trump, the New Republic argues.

The outlet blamed gaffes and questionable claims about cat ladies and childless Americans for the increase in unfavorable polling.

"As a result of his botched rollout, which included widespread backlash for his egregiously sexist comments and low-energy speaking events marred by gaffes, Vance’s net favorability dropped even lower," the analysis states.

"Vance is officially less liked than Sarah Palin, who is widely regarded as one of the least popular vice-presidential candidates in recent history," according to ABC News.

Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) has also seen his favorability drop, the data showed. As of Wednesday, he had a net favorability of 4.7 percent, 14 points above Vance's.