Vance Refuses To Apologize For Mocking Caitlin Upton, Who Struggled With Depression
JD Vance refused to apologize for using Caitlin Upton's disastrous appearance at the Teen USA beauty pageant as his punching bag to mock Kamala Harris.
It takes less than a minute for a presidential campaign to do a Google search on someone they are about to ridicule. Caitlin Upton struggled with depression and had suicidal thoughts after her performance became a meme.
BERMAN: After CNN released a small clip of the Harris interview, you posted a clip from a 2007 Miss Teen USA beauty pageant, Caitlin Upton, on Twitter and wrote, "I have gotten a hold of the full Kamala Harris CNN interview."
Now, this thing that surfaced around the internet for a few years, she had, you know, she struggled answering a question back in this beauty pageant.
I'm not sure you're aware, in 2015, Caitlin Upton did an interview in New York Magazine about all the social media attention this clip got, and she said, I definitely went through a period where I was very, very depressed, but I never let anybody see that stuff except for people I could trust.
I had some very dark moments where I thought about committing suicide.
So when you posted this last night, were you aware that the woman you were posting a picture of had contemplated committing suicide for the attention it received?
VANCE: No, certainly not, John, and my heart goes out to her, and I hope that she's doing well.