Even Tapper is disgusted by Walz’s use of vulgar JD Vance smear: ‘What happened to we go high?’

CNN’s Jake Tapper called out leftists for using a vulgar smear to discredit vice presidential nominee JD Vance.

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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz made reference to a disgusting and false claim that former President Donald Trump’s VP pick had once been “intimate” with a couch. The lie, generated by an X user, was not contained anywhere in Vance’s book but that didn’t stop leftists from gleefully sharing it. This didn’t sit right with Tapper, who asked his guests about it on Wednesday’s episode of “The Lead.”

“So let me ask you a question because there’s this — I’m hesitant to even bring it up, but this is gross online smear about J.D. Vance involving couches, OK, and the only reason I cite it is because Governor Walz made a reference to it during his introduction speech yesterday,” he said, playing a clip of Walz.

“And I got to tell you, I can’t wait to debate the guy. That is if he’s willing to get off the couch and show up,” the governor said to the delight of the audience.

“A clear reference to this gross smear. So I mean, whatever happened to Michelle Obama’s when they go low, we go higher?” the host asked political strategist Shermichael Singleton.

“I think Democrats have abandoned that a long time ago,” he admitted. “Look, I get it. Politics is a brutal sport. This is like a boxing match and we’re trying to see if we can get the knockout first and they’re trying to do the same, and let’s see what happens in November, Jake. But I’m not surprised by it.”

“What do you think?” Tapper asked Democratic strategist Ameshia Cross.

“I love Michelle Obama, but she’s not in this race,” she stated. “They’re running against Donald J. Trump who continues to go lower, deeper, more crazy. We’ve seen everything on Truth Social. I don’t know who Kambala is. I don’t know why he’s pretending like — like we’re going to see Joe Biden pop up out of something at the DNC and become the nominee again.”

“This campaign is measured against the guy they’re running against, and the field game is extremely strong,” she continued. “And I think that trying to compare it to somebody who’s never going to run, who’s not going to run, and something that she said to try to calm some of the aggression we saw from the right, it doesn’t make sense.”

“So, you guys are going lower? Is that fair to ask?” Singleton asked.

“No, we’re meeting — we’re meeting the energy where it is,” Cross responded.

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