Fox’s Maria Bartiromo Confronts JD Vance: ‘Some People are Saying You Were the Wrong Pick’ for VP

Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo confronted Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) about criticism from both the left and the right that he was the “wrong pick” as former President Donald Trump’s running mate.

In an interview on Sunday Morning Futures , Bartiromo asked the Ohio senator about how he’s combatting the perception that Trump made a bad choice to select him to fill out the presidential ticket.

“You’ve got a lot of people talking about you on both the Democrat side and the Republican side,” Bartiromo said. “You’ve heard the chatter. “Some people are saying you were the wrong pick for Trump’s running mate. What are you doing about it?”

Vance took the question as an opportunity to attack the media — a media which, to hear the senator tell it, is afraid of his candidacy.

“Well, Maria, all I can do is go out there and prosecute the case against Kamala Harris and remind people that things were more prosperous and more peaceful when Donald Trump was president. Look, I recognize that there are a lot of folks, even in the GOP establishment and certainly on the far left, who don’t like the fact that Donald Trump picked me. I actually take their criticism as a badge of honor. Of course, the media is going to attack the people they fear the most. The media is going to attack the people, I think, who can most effectively bring President Trump’s message to a broader swath of the electorate.”

Bartiromo pressed the senator about Democrats repeatedly labeling him as “weird.”

“What do you say about this new strategy to call you weird from the Democrats?” Bartiromo asked.

“I think that it’s a lot of projection, frankly, Maria, from people who want to give transgender hormones to 9-year-old kids and want biological males to play in women’s sports,” Vance said. “Look, I’m a husband, I’m a father, I’m happily married, and I love my life. And I’m doing this because I want to be a good public servant who fixes the problems of the Democrats. They can call me whatever they want to. The middle school taunts don’t bother me.”

Watch above, via Fox News.