Vance's new media strategy

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When Vance takes questions from the press, supporters jeer the questions and cheer him on

By Adam Wren
09/28/2024 08:35 AM EDT
Updated: 09/28/2024 09:18 AM EDT

... Inside an open-air barn at the Northwest Michigan Fairgrounds, Vance, who favors questions from local reporters before national ones at his events, called on the Traverse City Record-Eagle reporter, who identified himself as the “hometown” scribe.

Before he even got his question out — a relatively anodyne one about housing costs — the reporter endured a hail of boos as the Republican vice presidential nominee smiled.

“We’re having fun,” Vance told the 65-year-old staff writer Peter Kobs, who knew many of the people in this venue. “You’re allowed to ask your question; they’re allowed to tell you how they think about it. That’s OK. This is America” ...

Kobs said he had interviewed some 20 people in the room beforehand — people he knew from the community — and all were polite. “It’s the herd mentality,” he said of their sudden transformation ...

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/28/jd-vance-press-hostile-00181455