JD Vance Roasts Stephanie Ruhle for Fact-Checking an Obvious Joke About His Kids

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Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance and others mocked MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle after she offered a fact check of an obviously hyperbolic statement from Vance about the eating habits of his kids.

During a stop this month at a grocery store in Pennsylvania, Vance spoke about inflation and the rising cost of food items when his two sons reached for eggs.

“Yes, buddy. Want some eggs? Let’s talk about eggs. Because these guys actually eat about 14 eggs every single morning. Is that right?” the candidate said.

Ruhle took this calculation literally.

“14 eggs per day. 98 eggs per week. 2 children consuming 8+ dozen eggs per week,” she wrote on X.

Ruhle, who recently interviewed Vice President Kamala Harris, was ridiculed by Vance for taking line comment so seriously.

“One time I said I was so tired I could sleep for days. Stephanie Ruhle: Vance, in fact, only slept for 8 hours,” Vance wrote in response to Ruhle.

Others offered her the definition of “hyperbole” and continued the mockery.

Ruhle has already been facing criticism over her repeated defenses of Harris avoiding specific policy questions in interviews, including in her sit-down with Ruhle.

“Many people feel like she’s speaking in platitudes, that she’s speaking about an economic vision and she’s not giving details. She’s got an 80-paged detailed policy proposal!” she said on Morning Joe following the Harris interview. “And do I think she answers every single question and gives people exactly what they want? She doesn’t. You know why? Because she’s a politician and none of them do. They all speak in platitudes.”