Trumps pick for vice Vance

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Fact-checking statements made by JD Vance in RNC speech

WBNS 10TV
Jul 18, 2024
JD Vance used his address to the Republican National Convention to make the case that his party best understands the challenges facing struggling Americans.


Trump's VP Pick J.D. Vance Espouses Economic Populism, But Will He Actually Be a Working-Class Ally?

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turncoat

Trump is Hitler

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Cultural heroin


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LIVE: RNC Convention DESCENDS into UTTER CHAOS

MeidasTouch

Jason Kander is joined by special guest Fred Wellman to discuss Trump's new VP pick J.D. Vance. Kander and Wellman then discuss the first two days of the RNC as the GOP's unity message falls apart, Trump's primary opponents bend the knee, and billionaires rally behind Trump's campaign. Jason and Fred then discuss new comments by Trump previewing his foreign policy approach if he is rewarded with a second term. This and more on the podcast that helps you, the 54% of the country that votes for progress in every election, convince your conservative friends and family members to join our majority. This is Majority 54


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Relationship with Donald Trump
During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Vance was an outspoken critic of Republican nominee Donald Trump. In a February 18, 2016, USA Today column, he wrote, "Trump's actual policy proposals, such as they are, range from immoral to absurd."[220] In April 2016, Vance said, "Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office".[221] In the Atlantic and on a PBS show hosted by Charlie Rose,[222] Vance called Trump "cultural heroin"[223] and "an opioid of the masses."[224][225] In August 2016, Vance asserted that Trump is "noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place."[221] In October 2016, he called Trump "reprehensible" in a post on Twitter[226] and called himself a "never-Trump guy."[227][228]

In a private message in 2016, Vance wrote, "I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler."[229][230][231] Vance said he did not vote for Trump in 2016,[232] but instead for independent candidate Evan McMullin.[233]

By February 2018, Vance began changing his opinion, saying Trump "is one of the few political leaders in America that recognizes the frustration that exists in large parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, eastern Kentucky and so forth".[234]

Vance supported Trump in 2020.[235] In July 2021, he apologized for calling Trump "reprehensible" and deleted posts from 2016 from his Twitter account that were critical of him.[236][237] Vance said he now thought Trump was a good president and expressed regret about his criticism during the 2016 election.[226] Vance visited Mar-a-Lago to meet with Trump and Peter Thiel ahead of an official announcement of his U.S. Senate campaign.[55]

In October 2021, Vance reiterated Trump's false claims of election fraud, saying that Trump lost the 2020 presidential election because of widespread voter fraud.[238] On April 15, 2022, Trump endorsed Vance for the U.S. Senate.[227]

After historian Robert Kagan wrote a November 2023 Washington Post opinion piece titled "A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending", Vance wrote Attorney General Merrick Garland a letter suggesting Kagan be prosecuted for promoting "open rebellion" by Democrat-controlled states. Kagan said that his piece did not advocate rebellion and remarked, "It is revealing that their first instinct when attacked by a journalist is to suggest that they be locked up."[239][240]

On June 30, 2024, on Face the Nation, Vance said, "I believe that the president has broad pardon authority ... but more importantly, I think the president has immunity".[241]


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‘Drunk the Kool-Aid’: Hear JD Vance’s old roommate on MAGA transformation

MSNBC

Jul 17, 2024  #MAGA #Trump #JDVance
Josh McLaurin, current Georgia state senator and JD Vance’s former Yale Law School roommate joins Alex Wagner and Chris Hayes to discuss the MAGA transformation of Trump’s vice presidential pick. “He's, at this point, so angry, so motivated by that that spirit of revenge that Trump has publicly espoused that he's the perfect running mate for Trump,” says McLaurin.