feint

Maybe that's just one big feint but I'm guessing that's the true Vance game plan: attack Walz as a San Francisco hippie, hit Biden and Harris and pump up Trump.

On a metatextual level, the show is itself a masterful feint.

That October, Fox News’ Martha MacCallum and Bret Baier asked Buttigieg a leading question about the policy differences between Biden and Harris, only to have Buttigieg feint, brilliantly.

And House Republicans layered on another preposterous lie: Hunter Biden’s conviction was a feint to distract us from the real crimes of the father, the ones that House Republicans haven’t been able to identify despite more than a year of investigations.

Of course, there’s the obligatory feint at originalism: The “Appeal to Heaven” flag is about “the American revolution,” Alito writes, and expresses merely “a religious and patriotic message.”