Trump leans in to ‘Comrade Kamala’ nickname at Arizona rally alongside RFK Jr: Live

JD Vance declared himself a “never Trump guy” in 2016. Now that he’s Donald Trump’s running mate, the Ohio senator’s words have come back to haunt him in the form of a viral hit on social media app TikTok.

The 22-second long audio clip was created by DJ duo Casa Di and Steve Terrell, who sampled Vance’s comments from a 2016 Vance interview with Charlie Rose when he was promoting his memoir Hillbilly Elegy.

In the clip, Vance can be heard saying: “I’m a never Trump guy. I never liked him.”

That sample was added to the Petey Pablo hip-hop beat “Freek-a-Leek” and the resulting song has proved wildly popular on TikTok, where it has soundtracked more than 8,500 videos in the last month, racking up over 40 million views in total.

Sure, it may be hard to compete with the carnival charisma of Donald Trump, but another week on the campaign trail seemed to do little to change the attack lines against Vance.

There weren’t any all-time political gaffes like dismissing those without traditional families as “childless cat ladies,” but the US Senator for Ohio still managed to generate plenty of raised eyebrows and awkward silences.

Trump questioned Harris’s “right to run for president” in a post on Truth Social on Friday, arguing that her taking on the Democratic mantle despite not winning a primary is a “threat” to democracy.

The former president and Republican presidential candidate wrote “Kamala Harris is the Weakest Presidential Candidate in History on Crime. She’s allowed millions of people to pour through our Borders, many from prisons, mental institutions and, indeed, terrorists, coming in at levels never seen before.”

“What gives her the right to run for President? She got no votes to Biden’s 14 Million. She failed in her previous attempt, was the first one out of 22 people to quit, never made it to Iowa, and now she’s a Presidential Candidate? This is a Threat to Democracy!” he added.

Donald Trump’s campaign and associated political groups have spent $28 million at his businesses throughout his three presidential campaigns.

The biggest bill: a $1.9 million purchase by Trump’s campaign and associated committees at private aviation firm TAG Air.

Robert F Kennedy Jr’s running mate Nichole Shanahan said their campaign would never “sell out” just hours before RFK Jr endorsed Donald Trump.

“It’s not what we would ever choose to do nor are we defeated in this moment, but I have to say something. We are up against something that is unprecedented,” she said.

When five Black and Latino teenagers were wrongly convicted of the rape of a jogger in New York City’s Central Park in 1989, Donald Trump bought out full-page ads in newspapers with a headline screaming to “BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY.”

Thirty-five years later, one of those teens — now 50 years old and a city councilman representing Harlem — warned Americans about the danger of a second Trump term, as he backed the woman running against him.

Michael Cohen was among many former and current Republicans at the Democratic National Convention, appearing either virtually, on stage or in the crowd.

Asked by CNN’s Jim Acosta how he thinks his former boss feels about the anti-Trump GOP joining Democrats in Chicago, Cohen said, “I don’t really care what he’s thinking.”

“This isn’t about him,” said Cohen, who is currently asking the Supreme Court to get involved in his lawsuit against Trump over his retaliatory incarceration. Cohen also was a star witness against his former boss during his hush money trial, which Trump lost.

“It’s not my first Democratic convention that I have ever been at. This is a massive mistake that is regularly made by people,” Cohen said. “I have been a Democrat virtually my entire life.”

Cohen said he doesn’t care “about his feelings.”

“What I care about is seeing a big, gigantic blue wave come November and not just for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz but the entire down ballot,” he said.

In response to Robert F Kennedy Jr’s announcement that he is suspending his presidential bid, Democratic National Committee had two words: “good riddance.”

His announcement “should come as no surprise, his candidacy has never been anything other than a spoiler campaign for Trump,” according to the DNC.

“He was recruited into the race by MAGA Republicans like Steve Bannon, he was propped up by Trump’s largest donor, and he parroted MAGA attacks on Democrats.”

DNC senior advisor Mary Beth Cahill said that “the more voters learned about RFK Jr. the less they liked him.”

“Donald Trump isn’t earning an endorsement that’s going to help build support, he’s inheriting the baggage of a failed fringe candidate,” she added. “Good riddance.”