Tag Archives: J.D. Vance

Mediaite reports: Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) attacked the military record of Tim Walz during a press conference on Wednesday morning by accusing him of stolen valor. Vance claimed that Walz “abandoned” his unit in the National Guard before it was deployed to Iraq. Walz served in the National Guard in Nebraska and later Minnesota for 24 years reaching the rank …

“So first of all, the reason I didn’t say a whole lot about Tim Walz is because the Democrats have showed a willingness to pull a little switcheroo on us. So I don’t even know if we’re actually going to get Tim Walz out of this campaign. “And I think that a lot of us are asking ourselves, well, it’s …

The Daily Beast reports: J.D. Vance wasted no time in going on the offensive as Kamala Harris named Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate. Donald Trump’s number two claimed Harris’ decision to overlook another top contender Josh Shapiro was evidence of “antisemitism” in the Democratic Party. “I think that they have not picked Shapiro, frankly, out of anti-Semitism …

The Hill reports: Usha Vance, vice presidential hopeful Sen. JD Vance’s (R-Ohio) wife, in a new interview addressed the wave of criticism over his resurfaced comments saying the country was being run by “childless cat ladies.” In a pre-recorded interview with Ainsley Earhardt that aired on “Fox and Friends” Monday morning, Vance said her husband “would never ever, ever want …

Yahoo News reports: During a damage-control podcast interview aired on his 40th birthday Friday, J.D. Vance revealed how he became Donald Trump’s running mate. And talk about weird: the crazy questions that came from a lawyer who vetted him. Vance said the lawyer showed up at his house to talk to him and his wife, Usha, while his kids were …

Talking Points Memo reports: Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) has been making headlines for his “rocky rollout” since being named former President Donald Trump’s running mate last month. Well, along with extreme comments, Vance has some extreme investments. Vance has had a six-figure stake in Rumble, an online video platform. The company has played host to Russian propaganda and to far-right …

CNN reports: Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance on Thursday defended Donald Trump’s false comments about Kamala Harris’ racial identity, saying that it was “totally reasonable” for his ticket mate to describe the vice president as someone who “pretends to be somebody different, depending on the audience she’s talking to.” The Ohio senator’s comments came the day after Trump said …

“I frankly just think it’s hysterical how much the media is overreacting to it. The President, which is one of the good things about him, the President doesn’t do scripted BS stuff. “He actually goes into hostile audiences, he answers tough questions, he pushes back against them, but he actually answers them and how nice it is to have an …

Roll Call reports: Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican nominee for vice president, may not be fond of “childless cat ladies,” but he’s almost certain to skip a vote this week on legislation to expand the child tax credit. The Senate is scheduled to take a procedural vote Thursday on a House-passed bill that would expand the credit for low-income …

Mediaite reports: Trump VP pick Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) made a rather unfortunate offhand reference at a rally amid baseless accusations he confessed to sexually violating a couch. “I have been the beneficiary, I have to say, of a number of strong women in my life, especially my beautiful wife who you guys saw earlier. Now, I would call her …

“To be a little stark about this, I think we have to go to war against the anti-child ideology that exists in our country. Not enough people have accepted that if they put their entire life’s meaning into their credential, into where they went to school, into what kind of job they have ― if you put all of your …

The Hill reports: Republican lawmakers are divided over whether former President Trump should ditch his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), who has become a magnet for controversy and negative press coverage since Trump tapped him for the role earlier this month. “I would assume he’s not real happy,” one Republican senator said of how Trump is handling the barrage …

“I’ve seen people who become more attached to their communities, to their families, to their country, because they have children. “So I would say that we should care about declining fertility, not just because it’s bad for our economy, but because we think babies are good– and we think babies are good because we’re not sociopaths. “There is just these …

The Washington Post reports: The Republican vice-presidential nominee, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), privately told donors that running against Vice President Harris instead of President Biden made the race more challenging — an admission at odds with the Donald Trump campaign’s public projections of confidence. “All of us were hit with a little bit of a political sucker punch,” Vance said …

“I do think that being a parent actually has a profound effect on somebody’s perspective and we should honor and respect that. “But a whole host of people who don’t have children for a whole host of reasons and they certainly are great people who can participate fully in the life of this country and that’s not what I said, …

Politico reports: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) may be “one of the best things [Trump] ever did for Democrats” in an interview with CBS’s Robert Costa. Old interviews with Vance that have resurfaced — and vicious discourse about Vance being “weird” trending online — have sparked debate over whether former president Donald Trump regrets …

Mediaite reports: Elon Musk jumped to the defense of Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) on Sunday, claiming Vice President Kamala Harris wants the human race to meet extinction while siding with the embattled Republican vice presidential nominee. As he continued to navigate the backlash, Vance shared a clip of Harris speaking that was posted by Donald Trump Jr. In the video, …

The Daily Beast reports: J.D. Vance’s long friendship with a transgender friend who attended his wedding has been revealed—including how he spoke about hating cops and disparaged Donald Trump and conservative icon Antonin Scalia. Sofia Nelson, a Yale Law School contemporary of Trump’s running mate, revealed how they corresponded by text and email for years until falling out over his …

“This guy who was sentenced to four years in prison for literally walking around in the Capitol? We were taught it was a crazy guy with, like, the bullhorns, you know what I’m talking about? He looked like he’d be a fun guy to have a beer with, right? “The Q shaman, that’s what they called this guy. Look, this …

“Speaking of errors that Republicans are gonna have to avoid. So, JD Vance is the vice presidential nominee for president Trump. Now, if you had a time machine, if you go back two weeks, would he have picked JD Vance again? I doubt it. I think he probably would have picked somebody like Glenn Youngkin from Virginia in an attempt …