Vice President JD Vance is either secretly Charles Xavier and can read the mind of every Harvard University employee, or he is making shit up again in order to push a MAGA talking point.
The self-proclaimed hillbilly boldly compared Harvard University to North Korea at the American Compass anniversary gala Tuesday, claiming that “at least 90—probably 95 percent” of Harvard’s faculty voted for Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.
“But if you ask yourself—a foreign election, a foreign country’s election, you say 80% of the people voted for one candidate. You would say, ‘Oh, that’s kind of weird,’ right? That’s like, not a super healthy democracy,” he babbled.
“If you said, ‘Oh, 95% of people voted for one party’s candidate,’ you would say, ‘That’s North Korea,” right, Vance said. “That is impossible in a true place of free exchange for that to happen.”
If you’re wondering how Vance acquired these completely made-up voting statistics and decided to draw these connections, you are not alone. Even Fox News noted that the vice president made the claim “without evidence.”
Then again, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just released an official government report citing fabricated sources, so it’s not unheard of for people in the Trump administration to pull data from thin air.
As for our eye-lined darling, using made-up information to push his longtime vendetta against higher education is just another example of his awkward attempts at being a relatable human.
When Vance was penning thoughts for conservative website National Review, he used vague sources he referred to as “friends” he knew to justify his narrative of the “college trap.”
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And when the highly hypocritical Yale Law School grad is not dogging on Harvard, he is struggling to form sentences while interacting with workers at a donut shop to show voters that he, too, is a normal everyday guy who does normal, everyday things.
Then again, Vance can’t even keep his own family or sports fans on his side—so his historic unpopularity makes a lot of sense.
