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Jimmy Fallon has poked fun at JD Vance’s low pollings by reeling off a list of all the things that are more popular than Donald Trump’s chosen running mate – from “lice outbreak emails” to a “sun-warmed egg salad”.
On The Tonight Show Thursday, Fallon said that he “read that Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, has a negative net favorability rating.”
“Yeah, his favorability rating is a negative six. I’m not even sure how that’s possible. But it’s true,” Fallon said.
“Just to give you a sense of how bad that is, here’s a list of things currently polling higher than JD Vance.”
Fallon then listed: “First, there’s sun-warmed egg salad. Next, there is the lice outbreak email from your kid’s school. And, finally, there’s people who use the word “Fri-Yay.”
Trump announced earlier this month that he had chosen the Ohio senator as his vice presidential pick to join him on the Republican ticket in November.
But, since then, Vance has not been doing so well in the polls.
In a poll analysis by CNN, Vance was found to be the first non-incumbent, vice presidential pick since 1980 to have a net-negative rating following a party convention.
CNN’s senior political data reporter Harry Enten stated that Vance is currently “making history in the completely wrong way.”
He explained that since 2000, vice presidential nominees usually, on average, have a net-positive rating immediately after the RNC, at plus 19 points in favorability.
However, Vance has seen his net favorable rating plunge to minus six points after he was declared as Trump’s running mate and joined Trump on the campaign trial.
The Republican vice presidential candidate is also facing backlash for his sexist comments which resurfaced this week of him attacking Kamala Harris and other women as “a bunch of childless cat ladies”.
Some Republicans are reportedly starting to regret Vance being on the party’s ticket after Vice President Kamala Harris replaced Biden as the presumptive nominee for the Democratic party.
One House Republican told Axios that “on the whole,” Vance “doesn’t add much.”
Yet, Trump spokesman Steven Cheung told The Independent: “President Trump is thrilled with the choice he made with Senator Vance, and they are the perfect team to take back the White House. Meanwhile, Democrats are in complete disarray after their coup that forcibly removed Biden from the campaign, proving they are the real threats to democracy.”
Fallon also touched on Biden’s address to the nation from the Oval Office on Wednesday night, where he spoke for the first time about his decision to drop out of the 2024 race.
The late-night show host said that Biden spoke for around 11 minutes.
But joked that “the only hiccup in the speech was a guy off camera yelling ‘Please get back in the race. Please!’” – referencing Trump.
“I’m a reporter from a – You’ve never met me before! Please,” he quipped.
In reality, Trump was reportedly watching the speech from his private plane after a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Fallon flashed an image on screen posted by The New York Times of Trump watching it from the plane. He then joked that “Trump made it five minutes into the speech before changing the channel to this,” and changed the screen to Love Island USA.
The former president had some very strong remarks in response to Biden’s speech, taking to Truth Social to call it “barely understandable” and “sooo bad!”
In contrast, Fallon said the speech was “very graceful,” before joking that “at the end, Biden surprised everyone by announcing his candidacy for 2028.”
"No. Stop! Stop, please,” Fallon exclaimed.
