{"id":1035993,"date":"2024-06-16T17:12:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T17:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1035993"},"modified":"2024-06-16T17:12:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T17:12:30","slug":"trumps-maga-veepstakes-j-d-vance-is-desperate-to-rip-away-freedoms-and-undermine-democracy-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-maga-veepstakes-j-d-vance-is-desperate-to-rip-away-freedoms-and-undermine-democracy-with-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s MAGA Veepstakes: J.D. Vance Is Desperate to Rip Away Freedoms and Undermine Democracy With Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As Trump VP contender J.D. Vance speaks at the Turning Point Action conference in Michigan, <\/em>DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMAGA loyalist J.D. Vance will do anything to prop up Donald Trump\u2019s extreme agenda, even if it means hurting working families and undermining our democracy. Just like Trump, Vance is already putting the ultra-rich over hardworking Americans, spreading election denialism, and pushing to rip away reproductive freedoms and access to affordable health care. Voters see Vance for the MAGA extremist he truly is, and know that both Vance and Trump will never put the American people first.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance is an extreme election denier who has hedged on accepting this November\u2019s election results, echoed Trump\u2019s baseless lies about the 2020 election, and attempted to whitewash the violent January 6 insurrection.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201cI think the entire post-2020 thing would have gone a lot better if there had actually been an effort to provide alternative slates of electors<\/strong>, and to force us to have that debate. I think it would\u2019ve been a much better thing for the country. \u2026 [Trump] was trying to take a constitutional process to its natural conclusion.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think it would\u2019ve been extraordinarily disappointing to a whole host of people that I care a lot about if Trump had just taken it [and conceded the 2020 election before January 6].\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201cNo real Republican with any credibility in the party is still blaming [Trump for January 6].\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HuffPost<\/a>: \u201c[Vance] said he would accept a Biden win only if he considered the election to be legitimate. \u2026 Vance\u2019s comments illustrate a new tactic by Republican lawmakers, who are now placing conditions on accepting election results.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cJ.D. Vance Says He Would Accept the Election Results, With a Caveat\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ABC News<\/a>: \u201cJD Vance says he’s wouldn’t have certified 2020 race until states submitted pro-Trump electors\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201c[Vance] has said that, unlike Vice President Mike Pence in 2020, he would have helped Mr. Trump overturn the results<\/strong>, by accepting Trump electors that had not been elected by voters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian<\/a>: \u201cPotential Trump running mate JD Vance says he still questions results of 2020 election\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cJD Vance says he is \u2018skeptical\u2019 Pence\u2019s life was in danger on Jan. 6\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201c[Vance] downplayed the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol<\/strong>, when Pence was forced to evacuate the building as rioters called for his hanging.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance is an anti-choice extremist who supports a national abortion with no exceptions for rape and incest and has endorsed banning abortion before many women even know they\u2019re pregnant.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manu Raju, CNN<\/a>: \u201cJ.D. Vance, the Ohio GOP senator, says Republicans need to shift their approach on abortion and begin to embrace federal legislation\u2026 \u2018We can\u2019t give into the idea that the federal Congress has no role in this matter,\u2019 he told us.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newsweek<\/a>: \u201cJ.D. Vance Backs \u2018National Standard\u2019 for Abortions.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cOhio Senate candidate J.D. Vance argues against need for rape and incest exceptions in abortion laws\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Beast<\/a>: \u201cJ.D. Vance suggested he would support prohibiting abortion even in cases of rape and incest\u2014and dismissed those catalysts as \u2018inconvenient.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cVance said that he would vote for the national abortion ban at 15 weeks introduced by Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham\u2026 He did not explicitly say he supports a rape exception\u2026 He said the issue is too complex for him to name all the exceptions he might support on a debate stage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201cOhio has a heartbeat bill, [banning abortion before many women know they\u2019re pregnant] I think that\u2019s a good bill.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vice<\/a>: \u201cJD Vance Compared Abortion to Slavery\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance has railed against Social Security and Medicare and has also criticized the Affordable Care Act that Trump is pushing to \u201c<\/strong>terminate<\/strong><\/a>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201c[Social Security and Medicare] are the biggest roadblocks to any kind of real fiscal sanity.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201cThe way forward is as obvious as it is politically difficult: \u2026 reform current entitlements and avoid enacting new ones.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201cWe\u2019ve got to, frankly, stop spending so much on welfare benefits and start having a lot more workers who are paying into the system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: Vance claimed the Affordable Care Act \u201cfailed to take care of\u201d high healthcare costs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance opposes commonsense gun safety reforms like expanded background checks and red flag laws while cozying up to the NRA.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u2018The background check system is not the problem\u2026 the idea that expanded background checks is going to solve that problem is unfortunately not true.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201cNone of these [commonsense gun safety reforms] would improve the gun violence problem in this country. All of them satisfy the urge to \u2018do something\u2019 without actually doing anything useful, at great cost to the rights of people who follow the law. Let\u2019s take just one example, \u2018red flag\u2019 laws.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022<\/a>: Vance was endorsed by the NRA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance has defended Trump\u2019s racist immigration rhetoric, and he caved to Trump\u2019s demands by tanking bipartisan legislation to improve our immigration system and border security.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cVance slams \u2018poisoning our blood\u2019 comparisons between Trump comments, Nazis\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018[Trump] said illegal immigrants were poisoning the blood of this country, which is objectively and obviously true\u2019… Vance said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Ohio Republican, who has endorsed Trump\u2019s campaign, also criticized the framing of questions from reporters who likened the remarks to those by Hitler around World War II, calling it \u2018absurd.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

J.D. Vance<\/a>: \u201c[The bipartisan border security bill] does nothing to secure the border.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance supports <\/strong>Trump\u2019s plan<\/strong><\/a> to reward Vladimir Putin for his invasion of Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201c[Vance] says Ukraine should cede land and cut a deal with Putin to end the war\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, on Monday dismissed fears of Russia\u2019s military capabilities under President Vladimir Putin and suggested Ukraine should give up some of its land to end the war.<\/strong> \u2026 Vance also reiterated that he believes \u2018there will be negotiation\u2019 and Ukraine should be willing to give up at least some of its territory to end the war, which began in February 2022. \u2018It ends the way nearly every single war has ever ended: when people negotiate and each side gives up something that it doesn\u2019t want to give up,\u2019 Vance said.  \u2018No one can explain to me how this ends without some territorial concessions relative to the 1991 boundaries,\u2019 he added.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mediaite<\/a>: \u201cJ.D. Vance Calls Depriving Ukraine of Aid His Second Biggest Priority in Senate\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance\u2019s extreme record includes opposing legislation to codify marriage equality.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ohio Capital Journal<\/a>: \u201cVance would vote against codifying right to marriage for same-sex couples\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance has railed against President Biden\u2019s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that is investing billions to update our nation’s roads and bridges, renewing our transportation networks, and ensuring every American has clean drinking water and access to high-speed internet. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201cI think [the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law] could actually make our infrastructure problems worse, not better. \u2026 I certainly think that the infrastructure bill was a huge, huge mistake.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Trump VP contender J.D. Vance speaks at the Turning Point Action conference in Michigan, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:  \u201cMAGA loyalist J.D. Vance will do anything to prop up Donald Trump\u2019s extreme agenda, even if it means hurting working families and undermining our democracy. Just like Trump, Vance is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTrump\u2019s MAGA Veepstakes: J.D. 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