Vice President JD Vance must be learning how to deal out zingers to the media by sitting under the tutelage of President Donald Trump, like a padawan to a Jedi Master. His latest hum dinger demonstrates his prowess with trolling as he owns a liberal reporter who thought they were going to ask him a hardball question and blast it across the plate.
Instead, Vance hit it out of the park and made the reporter look like a fool. He’s made the boss proud, no doubt about it.
Reporter: “Polls show that a majority of DC residents don’t support National Guard here…”
VP Vance: “I don’t know what poll you are talking about. Maybe it’s the same poll that said Kamala Harris would win the popular vote by 10 points.”
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— TheBlaze (@theblaze) August 20, 2025
A clip of the incident was shared on social media platform X. Vance was chit-chatting with members of the National Guard in Washington, D.C. who have been deployed in the area after President Trump took over local law enforcement to establish law and order in the crime ridden city.
The reporter asked a question that was supposedly based off polling data that shows the majority of residents in the city are opposed to the troop deployment. However, Vance essentially waves it off by questioning the polls credibility with a solid quip about polling data being used to predict that former Vice President Kamala Harris would win the 2024 presidential election popular vote by 10 points.
“Polls show that a majority of DC residents don’t support National Guard here…” the reporter started to say.
“I don’t know what poll you are talking about. Maybe it’s the same poll that said Kamala Harris would win the popular vote by 10 points,” Vance said shutting the reporter down.
Listen, when your city has so much nasty, violent crime that people can barely step out their front doors without getting caught in the middle of a robbery or carjacking, something needs to be done. Ideally, that “something” should be carried out by local law enforcement, but alas, that wasn’t happening in D.C.
When the local government fails to uphold the law and keep citizens safe, federal authorities can come in on a temporary basis and clean house. That’s what’s happening in our nation’s capital. This isn’t martial law. It isn’t federal police state creation. It’s a measure designed to help get the scum off the street and improve the strategies being used by local cops to ensure they can more effectively do their jobs.
The exchange between the reporter and vice president demonstrates that political tensions between two very different worldviews remains high, along with public skepticism about the accuracy of polling. How and when that will change is anybody’s guess, but I don’t think it will improve anytime soon.
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