Sports activities commentator Sarah Spain doubled down on her criticism of Vice President JD Vance whereas additionally condemning his supporters for flooding her mentions with hate after her preliminary remarks.
Spain, identified for her work at ESPN, said last week on her “Good Game” podcast that she felt like she had “checked out a demon, just like the satan” when she sat close to Vance at a U.S. ladies’s hockey match throughout the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
On Saturday, Spain addressed the backlash to her remark in a video posted on Instagram that she recorded at one of many Olympic venues.
“Simply wished to present you a heads up that when you see some bizarre feedback on my Instagram that I haven’t had an opportunity to delete but, it’s as a result of I acquired referred to as out for criticizing a pedophile-protecting, American-who-was-executed-by-ICE-slandering individual,” Spain mentioned within the clip.
She added that a few of Vance’s supporters have been “so cotton-headed that they may defend actually something finished by this individual” and had flooded her mentions with insults, calling her “fats” and “dumb” and saying they hoped she would “die and get most cancers.”
“So when you see a type of, don’t be confused,” she continued. “They’re at the moment in favor of what our administration is doing on this nation, and I couldn’t give two shits about their opinion of me.”
She concluded by saying she is “residing the dream” regardless of the web assaults.
