A.G. Gancarski
Timing is everything, and the Joe Biden campaign emphasized that with a press call just before Donald Trump’s running mate was made official.
With the selection of JD Vance, a Senator from Ohio, being confirmed, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Biden’s Campaign Manager and a Senator from Massachusetts offered warnings about the Buckeye State legislator being too radical and extreme for the executive branch.
“This is the most consequential election of our lifetimes, and with Donald Trump’s decision today to add JD Vance to the Republican ticket, the stakes of this election just got even higher,” remarked DNC Chair Jaime Harrison.
“JD Vance embodies MAGA — with an out-of-touch extreme agenda and plans to help Trump force his Project 2025 agenda on the American people. Vance has championed and enabled Trump’s worst policies for years — from a national abortion ban, to whitewashing Jan. 6, to railing against Social Security and Medicare. Let’s be clear: A Trump-Vance ticket would undermine our democracy, our freedoms, and our future.”
Jen O’Malley Dillon offered similar warnings on behalf of the Biden campaign.
“Donald Trump picked JD Vance as his running mate because Vance will do what Mike Pence wouldn’t on Jan. 6: bend over backwards to enable Trump and his extreme MAGA agenda, even if it means breaking the law and no matter the harm to the American people,” she said.
Dillon also believes Vance “will make it his mission to enact Trump’s Project 2025 agenda at the expense of American families.”
“This is someone who supports banning abortion nationwide while criticizing exceptions for rape and incest survivors; railed against the Affordable Care Act, including its protections for millions with preexisting conditions; and has admitted he wouldn’t have certified the free and fair election in 2020,” she said, before promising her campaign would “spend every single day making the case between the two starkly contrasting visions Americans will choose between at the ballot box this November.”
Elizabeth Warren, who serves with Vance, said the Vance pick was “great news” for capitalists and brought “no joy to working people.”
Warren contended both Trump and Vance will make cuts to Social Security and Medicare that “bear down on seniors like an avalanche,” and that both are also hostile to the Affordable Care Act.
“Elections are all about who the government works for,” Warren said, contending that there is a vast difference between the Republicans and Democrats on relevant issues in this campaign.
Warren also predicted that in a debate, “the VP will take it to JD Vance.”
8 comments
Not Woke
July 15, 2024 at 5:07 pm
There it is. This of course was written by the supposedly registered Repub Gancarski.
PeterH
July 15, 2024 at 6:17 pm
JD Vance solidifies the GQP’s Project 2025 agenda. You can see the video outlining this very irrational and very conservative proposal by typing into YOUTUBE;
John Oliver Project 2025
It’s the responsibility of every American to know what is a stake in this November election. Trump and Vance are simply ignorant pliable puppets for the crazies at the GQP.
MH/Duuuval
July 15, 2024 at 6:24 pm
Gancarski: “… writes for the New York Post and National Review also, with previous work in the American Conservative and Washington Times.” The missing pieces are Epoch Times and adjunct faculty at Stanford or Chicago, but AG is still a young feller and may hit bottom before it’s over.
Michael K
July 15, 2024 at 6:42 pm
All of the above is true. Vance is an opportunist first and foremost, but a good pick for the white Christian Nationalist movement that now defines what remains of the GOP.
Paul Passarelli
July 15, 2024 at 7:30 pm
Dems are shitting themselves. Because they are finally realizing that they have lost, and are going to get creamed in November, the only question is how badly and that depends entirely on how hard they cheat.
Right now in some dark room George Soros and his dark minions are weighing the option of letting the election unfold naturally and taking the pounding, or, to push their foul agenda behind the scenes to minimize how badly they lose.
Their top strategists know that they cannot win, then should not win, because should they win, everyone, even the staunchest supporters will have to admit that there was ballot fraud used to do so. A Dem victory in November *WILL* usher in the Second Civil War, and the Democrat leaders will be the first brought to the gallows.
Just my $0.02
Joey
July 15, 2024 at 7:35 pm
Remember de Red Wave??? Lol
Frankie M.
July 15, 2024 at 8:02 pm
Vance is a yes man. It was always going to be a yes man. Is he more extreme than Trump? We’ll see.
ScienceBLVR
July 15, 2024 at 9:11 pm
As a follower of politics- first major in college, but hey ya gotta make a living- I’m surprised at this pick. Not sure what Trump gains from a More Trump, than Trump guy. He already has the MAGA vote- Vance just seems more of the same. My money would have been on sane boring white bread Doug B, to bring in the independents and disaffected Republicans. Maybe even a shaky Dem or two scared of Biden. But the Yale Hillbilly guy? Took advantage and used all those opportunities to advance we Dems put in place to help lift folks from poverty, but sheeettt forget that noise, let’s MAGA ya all.