J.D. Vance Responds to CNN Host’s Remarks About His Iraq Service

(DailyVantage.com) – Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance hit back at CNN host Brianna Keilar last Thursday after she accused him of “stolen valor” for describing himself as a combat correspondent.

During a segment last week, Keilar ran interference for Democrat vice presidential candidate Tim Walz after Republicans hammered the Minnesota governor for repeatedly misrepresenting his military service.

The CNN host questioned whether Vance was the appropriate “messenger” for criticizing Walz’s service. She said Vance had been introduced as a “combat correspondent” and noted that his official title was a public affairs specialist with the Marine Corps.

Keilar pointed out that as a public affairs specialist, Vance “did not see combat” as the term combat correspondent suggested.

In an August 8 post on X, Vance hit back at Keilar, calling her smear “disgusting.” Vance said she and CNN “should be ashamed” of themselves.

The Republican candidate said that when he “got the call to go to Iraq,” he went to Iraq. He added that Tim Walz claimed that “he carried a gun in a war” when he did not.

Vance made the rounds on several Sunday morning news shows over the weekend, including CNN’s “State of the Union.”

He told CNN host Dana Bash that he looked forward to debating Governor Walz, explaining that it was important for voters to see the “fundamental difference” between the Republican ticket and the Democrats.

Vance also blasted Harris and Walz for refusing to sit down for an interview. He explained that he was asking Americans to elect him as their vice president and to that end, he should be doing interviews so he could “make that case.”

The Republican nominee also blasted the Harris-Walz campaign for what he described as its “schoolyard bully” attacks. Vance said the Democrat ticket used the childish attacks to “distract” voters from their failed policies.

Vance suggested that both Harris and Walz are uncomfortable “in their own skin” because they “aren’t comfortable with their policy positions” so they resort to “name-calling” instead of telling voters how they would “make their lives better.”