Letter to the editor: Vance enters the lion’s den

On Aug. 11, Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance sat down for an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Absent from Fox News’ equivalent Sunday morning show was Kamala Harris’ vice presidential running mate, Tim Walz. But that shouldn’t shock, given Walz’s aversion to combat zones.

Right out of the gate, CNN’s Dana Bash revealed her bias by accusing the Trump campaign of having “struggled” to adjust its strategy to the beneficiary of the recent Democratic coup, Harris. Vance deftly flicked away this derision and advanced on a graceful, facts-based rampage through Bash’s hostile and absurd roster of questions.

The two touched on Walz’s misrepresentation of his military service, abortion, a moth-eaten, yawn-worthy quote about “cat ladies” and then the pièce de résistance: Bash asked Vance to opine on Donald Trump’s feet. I suppose she mistook the Yale Law School graduate for a podiatrist.

Bash failed to mention that the bugaboo of this election, Project 2025, has nothing to do with the Trump campaign. It was conceived by the conservative Washington, D.C., think tank the Heritage Foundation, mirrored on the left by a comparable think tank, Center for American Progress, with radical policy views on abortion and illegal immigration.

Despite Trump publicly denouncing Project 2025 as cringeworthily far right, the left-wing media and Harris campaign concertedly portray its irrelevant proposals as a fascistic agenda dreamed up in Trump’s mind.

We anxiously await Harris’ debut in the teddy bear’s den.

Scott R. Hammond

Point Breeze