Elizabeth Warren calls Vance faux populist while party says he will ‘take women back decades’ on abortion

Democrats were quick to seize on Donald Trump’s decision to name as his running mate JD Vance, the hard-right Ohio senator whose past opposition to the former president and Republican nominee included calling him “America’s Hitler” but who now supports Trump with fiery populist rhetoric.

A Democratic party statement said: “Vance is an ultra-Maga extremist who’s ready to help Trump pass his Project 2025 agenda. Stop Trump-Vance. Vote Biden-Harris.”

Vance has praised Project 2025, a far-right blueprint for a second Trump term. Trump has tried to distance himself from the effort, which is co-ordinated by the Heritage Foundation. Democrats want to tie him to it.

Joe Biden’s campaign warned that Vance should not be trusted to put country over party, as Mike Pence did as vice-president when, on 6 January 2021, he refused to do as Trump demanded and block certification of Biden’s election win.

    • ThrowawayOnLemmy
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      281 month ago

      They’ve only been enabling it for 8 years now. Why would we think they all the sudden won’t enable it?

    • @disguy_ovahea
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      51 month ago

      Don’t underestimate Vance. He’s very smart, well connected, and far more dangerous to have in Trump’s ear than Pence ever was.

  • @something_random_tho
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    1 month ago

    I want to see ads featuring Vance’s “America’s Hitler” quote running 24/7 until the election.

  • @JesusSon
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    161 month ago

    JD will do anything daddy asks him to.

    • @samus12345
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      21 month ago

      Yup. He certainly wasn’t the best pick politically as he’s just a mini-Trump and won’t pull in any voters who might not have otherwise voted for him.

    • @samus12345
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      21 month ago

      Yes. The days of them being unprepared and not knowing how things work to enact their fascist agenda are over. They’ve been carefully planning this for 4 years now.