Former President Trump pushed back on Democratic attacks that he and his running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) are “weird” during a podcast interview Thursday.
“Nobody’s ever called me weird,” Trump said on “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.”
“They’re the weird ones,” Trump added of Harris and Democrats. “I’m a lot of things, but weird I’m not.”
Trump added Vance is “not at all” weird.
The Republican ticket has faced a relentless line of attack from Democrats over the past week labeling them as weird and not normal, a notable shift from the Biden campaign’s focus on Trump’s alleged threat to democracy.
Trump said it was Democrats who were weird with their stances on immigration, taxes, transgender rights and elections. “The whole thing is weird,” he said.
“It’s all a sound bite,” the former president said. “And the press picks it up. You notice … the evening news, every one of ‘em’s talking, they introduce the word ‘weird,’ and all of the sudden they’re talking about ‘weird.’”
“No, we’re not weird people,” Trump added. “We’re actually just the opposite, we’re right down the middle.”
Likely Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Harris’s campaign has taken up utilizing “weird” against Trump and Vance after it was introduced into the national discourse by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), who is reportedly being considered as a potential running mate.
“You may have noticed Donald Trump has been resorting to some wild lies about my record. And some of what he and his running mate are saying, it’s just plain weird. I mean, that’s the box you put that in, right?” Harris said last weekend at a fundraiser.
Harris’s campaign also said in an email last week that the former president “is old and quite weird?”
In response to the “weird” attack, Vance has said, “It doesn’t hurt my feelings.”
“Look, the price of admission — meaning, the price of getting to serve the people of this country — is the Democrats are going to attack us with everything that they have. I think it’s an honor,” Vance said in a Fox News interview that aired last weekend.
Trump also slung the “weird” label back at Harris in a recent interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham that aired Tuesday.
“Listen, this whole thing is a con job. ‘Just plain weird.’ Do you know who is plain weird? She’s plain weird,” he told Ingraham. “She’s a weird person. Look at her past. Look at what she does.”