Trump Prais­es JD Vance: ‘Real­ly Stepped Up’

For­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump praised his run­ning mate Sen. JD Vance (R‑OH) on Thurs­day after Vance faced a bar­rage of attacks from the Har­ris cam­paign and the lega­cy media.
Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris and her run­ning mate Min­neso­ta Gov. Tim Walz have stuck on label­ing Vance as “weird,” and Walz even ref­er­enced a com­plete­ly fab­ri­cat­ed sto­ry about Vance dur­ing his first ral­ly with Har­ris ear­li­er this week. Despite some in the media sug­gest­ing Trump is regret­ting tap­ping Vance, the for­mer pres­i­dent reaf­firmed his con­fi­dence in his run­ning mate dur­ing a news con­fer­ence at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
“I have to tell you, JD Vance has real­ly stepped up. He’s doing a fan­tas­tic job,” Trump said.
Trump added that along with agree­ing to three pres­i­den­tial debates on Fox News, NBC, and ABC in Sep­tem­ber, his team has ag …