MAGA Inc.
July 17, 2024

Under President Donald Trump, the world was safe because the United States projected unmatched strength across the planet. America's enemies feared and respected our resolve. Worldwide peace was maintained, knowing President Trump would swiftly demonstrate American power if challenged.
 
Under Joe Biden, America has never been less respected. Our allies are shocked by our feeble Commander-in-Chief, while our enemies exploit our vulnerabilities with spy balloons. Military-aged men flood our southern border, while authoritarians across the globe now see Biden's weakness as an open invitation to push their agendas.
 
Upon his return to the White House, President Trump will instantly revive American strength. From Day One, the Trump-Vance Administration will rebuild our military might, bring peace to Europe and the Middle East, secure our borders, and deliver a clear message to those who seek to destabilize our country and the world: America will not be trifled with.
 
As Obama's former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, Biden “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”

• The Biden administration's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan surrendered $85 billion in military equipment to the Taliban and resulted in the tragic deaths of 13 U.S. service members.
• Violating a Trump-era law, Biden's administration funneled funds to the Palestinian government while they paid salaries to imprisoned terrorists and their families.
• In April 2021, despite clear warnings from State Department officials, Biden approved $235 million in aid to Palestinians, knowing Hamas could benefit.
• In September 2023, Biden unfroze $6 billion in Iranian assets in exchange for five U.S. hostages, emboldening Tehran.
• Biden's administration handed $100,000 to a university in Gaza that praises Hamas terrorists as "righteous martyrs."
• Biden reversed Trump’s decision to designate Iran-backed Houthis as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, easing pressure on a known terrorist group.
• By relaxing Trump's sanctions on Iranian oil sales, Biden allowed billions to flow to Iran, funding global terrorism.
• Under Biden, Iranian oil exports more than doubled after reversing Trump’s successful pressure campaign.
• Iranian-backed militias have launched over 165 attacks on American forces since October, killing three U.S. soldiers.
• Shockingly, just a month after 9/11, Biden suggested sending $200 million, no strings attached, to Iran.
• On his first day, Biden reversed a Trump rule aimed at preventing Chinese influence over America's power grid.
• Biden’s DOJ ended Trump’s “China Initiative,” which was crucial in combating Chinese economic espionage and protecting our infrastructure.
• Biden re-engaged with the World Health Organization, reversing Trump’s decision to cut ties over their role in China’s COVID cover-up.
• Biden’s “Inflation Reduction Act” could hand Chinese solar companies up to $1.4 billion annually in taxpayer subsidies.
• In 2000, Biden told Chinese state media, "China is not our enemy," downplaying the threat the Communist regime poses.
• In 2011, Biden reiterated his belief that a rising China is beneficial, ignoring the risks to U.S. interests.
• As a Senator, Biden voted to normalize trade with China, paving the way for trade abuses against the U.S.
• Biden waived sanctions on the Russian company building the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
• Putin openly prefers Biden over Trump, citing Biden's predictability as an “old formation” politician.
• Biden halted new LNG export permits in January 2024, allowing Russia to overtake the U.S. as Europe’s primary natural gas supplier.
• Biden's blunders extend to Africa, where U.S. troops were declared illegal, forcing abandonment of a crucial $110 million air base.

A nation without borders is no nation at all:

• Joe Biden reversed the successful Trump policies that protected our nation from illegal immigration. As DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas admitted, "We have rescinded so many Trump immigration policies, it would take so much time to list them."
• Biden's executive actions include halting construction of the border wall, suspending deportations, ending Remain in Mexico, and reinstating catch-and-release.
• Over 10 million illegal immigrants have crossed our border under Biden's watch, without proper vetting. His open-border policies have led to numerous heinous crimes.
• Deportations of illegal immigrants with criminal charges or convictions have plummeted by 67 percent under Biden.

RNC Committee on Arrangements
July 17, 2024

Third Day of the 2024 Republican National Convention Concludes

In case you missed it, the third day of the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee spotlighted President Donald J. Trump’s vision to secure our borders, curb Chinese and Iranian threats, restore our rightful standing on the world stage, and Make America Strong Once Again.  
 
As with President Trump’s vision, the focus of tonight’s programming is the everyday Americans who have been left behind in Joe Biden’s America. The proceedings highlighted Gold Star Families, veterans, the family of a Hamas Hostage who was kidnapped on October 7th, UNC students who protected our stars and stripes, residents of border communities, and many others – all of whom are paying the cost of Biden’s dangerous weakness on the world stage.  
 
Tonight’s speakers also included former Speaker Newt Gingrich, Governor Doug Burgum, Donald Trump Jr., Usha Chilukuri Vance, and concluded with remarks from America’s next vice president: Sen. J.D. Vance. 

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July 17, 2024

My fellow Americans, my name is JD Vance, from the GREAT state of Ohio. 

Tonight is a night of HOPE. A celebration of what America once was, and with God’s grace, what it WILL SOON BE AGAIN.

And it is a reminder of the sacred duty that we have to preserve the American experiment, to CHOOSE a new path for our children and grandchildren.

But as we meet tonight, we cannot forget that this evening could have been much different. Instead of a day of celebration, this could have been a day of heartache and mourning.

For the last eight years, President Trump has given everything he has to fight for the people of our country. He didn’t need politics, but the COUNTRY NEEDED HIM.

Prior to running for president, he was one of the most successful businessmen in the world. He had everything anyone could ever want in a life. And yet, instead of choosing the easy path, he chose to endure abuse, slander, and persecution.

But don’t take my word for it, go and watch the video of a would-be assassin coming a quarter of an inch from taking his life.

Consider the lies they told you about Donald Trump. And then look at the photo of him defiant – fist in the air.

When Donald J. Trump rose to his feet in that Pennsylvania field – all of America STOOD UP WITH HIM.

Even in his most perilous moment WE were on his mind. His instinct was for US. To call us to something higher. To something greater. To once again be citizens who ask what our country needs of us.

He called for national unity, for calm. He remembered the victims of the terrible attack, especially the brave Corey Comperatore, who gave his life to protect his family.

AND THEN PRESIDENT TRUMP FLEW TO MILWAUKEE AND GOT BACK TO WORK.

That is the man I’ve gotten to know personally over the last few years.

HE IS, OUR ONCE AND FUTURE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

And I want to respond to his call for unity myself.

And my message to my fellow Americans is: shouldn’t we be governed by a party that is unafraid to debate ideas and come to the best solution?

That’s the Republican Party of the next four years: united in our love for America, and committed to free speech and the open exchange of ideas. 

So tonight, I stand here humbled, and I am overwhelmed with gratitude, to say…

I OFFICIALLY ACCEPT YOUR NOMINATION TO BE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Never in my wildest imagination would I have believed that I could be standing here tonight.

I grew up in Middletown, Ohio, a small town where people spoke their minds, built with their hands, and loved their God, family, community, and country with their whole hearts.

But it was also a place that had been cast aside and forgotten by America’s ruling class in Washington.

When I was in the fourth grade, a career politician by the name of Joe Biden supported NAFTA, a bad trade deal that sent countless good American manufacturing jobs to Mexico.

When I was a sophomore in high school, a career politician by the name of Joe Biden gave China a sweetheart trade deal that destroyed even more good middle class jobs.

And when I was a senior in high school, Joe Biden supported the disastrous invasion of Iraq.

And at each step of the way, in small towns like mine in Ohio, or next door in Pennsylvania, or in Michigan and other states across our country, jobs were sent overseas and children were sent to war.

Somehow, a real estate developer from New York by the name of Donald Trump was right on all of these issues while Joe Biden was wrong. Donald Trump knew, even then, that we needed leaders who would put AMERICA FIRST.

Thanks to these policies that Biden and the other out-of-touch politicians in Washington gave us, our country was FLOODED with cheap Chinese goods and cheap foreign labor… And in the decades to come, deadly Chinese fentanyl.

Joe Biden screwed up, and my community paid the price.

Now, I was lucky. Despite the closing factories and the growing addiction in towns like mine, in my life, I had a guardian angel by my side. She was an old woman who could barely walk but was tough as nails.

I called her “Mamaw,” the name we hillbillies gave to our grandmothers.

Mamaw raised me as her own as my own mother struggled with addiction.

Thanks to Mamaw, things worked out for me. 

After 9/11, I did what thousands of other young men my age did in that time of soaring patriotism and love of country: I enlisted in the United States Marines.

I left the Marines after four years and went to THE OHIO STATE, and then to law school at Yale—where I met my beautiful wife—and then started businesses to create jobs in the kinds of places I grew up.

My work taught me that there is still so much talent and grit in the American heartland. But for these places to thrive, we need a leader who fights for the people who built this country.

We NEED President Donald J. Trump. 

Some people tell me I’ve lived the American Dream, and they are right.

But the American Dream that always counted most was not starting a business or becoming a senator or even being here with you fine people, it was becoming a good husband and a good dad, and of giving my family the things I never had as a kid. 

And that’s the accomplishment I’m proudest of. 

That tonight I’m joined by my beautiful wife, Usha, an incredible lawyer and a better mom, and our three kids— Ewan, Vivek, Mirabel—hopefully in bed.

Things did not work out well for a lot kids I grew up with. Every now and then I will get a call from a relative back home who asks, did you know “so and so.” And I’ll remember a face from years ago. And then I’ll hear, “they died of an overdose.” 

As always, America’s ruling class wrote the checks; communities like mine paid the price.

For decades, that divide between the few, with their power and comfort in Washington, and the rest of us only widened.

From Iraq to Afghanistan, from the Financial Crisis to the Great Recession, from open borders to stagnating wages, the people who govern this country have failed and failed again.

That is, until President Donald J. Trump came along. 

Donald Trump represents America’s last best hope to restore what – if lost – may never be found again.

But my fellow Americans, this moment is not about me, it’s about all of us, and who we’re fighting for.

It’s about the auto worker in Michigan, wondering why out of touch politicians are destroying your jobs.

It’s about the factory worker in Wisconsin, who makes things with their hands and is proud of American craftsmanship.

It’s about the energy worker in Pennsylvania and Ohio, who doesn’t understand why Joe Biden is willing to buy energy from tinpot dictators but not hard-working Americans right here at home.

And, it’s about single moms like mine, who struggled with money and addiction but never gave up.

 

And I am proud to say that tonight my mom is here, 10 years clean and sober.

 

I love you, mom. 

It's about grandparents all across this country, who are living on Social Security and raising grandchildren they didn't expect to raise.

Joe Biden has been a politician in Washington for longer than I've been alive.

For half-a-CENTURY, he's been THE CHAMPION of every major policy initiative to make America WEAKER and POORER.

In four years, Donald Trump reversed decades of betrayals inflicted by Joe Biden and the rest of the corrupt Washington insiders.

He created the greatest economy in history for workers. Just imagine what he can do with four more years in the White House.

Months ago, I heard some young family member observe that their parents’ generation—the baby boomers—could afford to buy a home when they first entered the workforce. “But I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to afford a home,” they said sadly.

The absurd cost of housing is the result of SO MANY failures of America’s leadership class. And I can tell you exactly how it happened.

Wall Street barons crashed the economy and American builders went out of business.

As tradesmen scrambled for jobs, houses stopped being built.

The lack of good jobs led to stagnant wages. 

Then Democrats flooded the country with illegal immigrants. 

So citizens had to compete – with people who shouldn’t even be here – for precious housing.

Joe Biden’s inflation crisis is really an affordablitity crisis.

Many of the people that I grew up with can't afford to pay more for groceries, more for gas, more for rent, and that's exactly what Joe Biden’s economy has given them. So prices soared and dreams were shattered.

And China and the cartels sent fentanyl across the border, adding addiction to the heartache.

But that’s not the end of our story. 

We’ve heard about the villains and their victims. But let me tell you about the future.

President Trump’s vision is simple - we won’t cater to Wall Street, we’ll commit to the Working Man.

We won’t import foreign labor, we’ll fight for American citizens.

We won’t buy energy from countries that hate us, we’ll get it RIGHT here from American Workers.

We won’t sacrifice our supply chains to unlimited global trade, we’ll stamp every product MADE IN THE USA.

We will build factories again, put people to work making REAL products for American families, made with the hands of American workers.

Together, we will protect the wages of American workers—union and non-union alike—and stop the Chinese Communist Party from building THEIR middle class on the backs of OUR hard-working citizens.

Together, we will make our allies share in the burden of securing world peace: no more free rides for nations that betray the generosity of the American taxpayer.

Together, we will send our kids to war only when we must. 

But as President Trump showed with the elimination of ISIS, when we PUNCH, we will punch hard.

Together, we will put the citizens of America first, whatever the color of their skin.

WE WILL, IN SHORT, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. 

I am married to the daughter of South Asian immigrants to this country, incredible people, people who genuinely have enriched the country in so many ways.

And of course, I'm biased, because I love my wife, but I believe that it's true.

When I proposed to my wife, we were in law school, and I said, Honey, I come with $120,000 worth of law school debt, and a cemetery plot on a mountainside in eastern Kentucky.

That cemetery plot in Eastern Kentucky is near my family’s ancestral home. Like a lot of people, we came from the mountains of Appalachia into the factories of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

This is Kentucky coal country, by the way, one of the 10 poorest counties in the entire United States of America.

They are very hardworking people, and they're very good people, and they would give you the shirt off their back.

The media call them “privileged” and look down on them. 

But they love this country, not ONLY because it's a good idea. But because in their bones, they know that this is their home, and it will be their children's home, and they would die fighting to protect it. That is the source of America's greatness. 

As a U.S. Senator, I get to represent millions of people in the state of Ohio with similar stories, and it’s the great honor of my life.

But never forget that the reason why this united Republican Party exists, why we do this, why we care about all those great ideas and that great history, is that we want this nation to thrive for centuries to come.

Eventually, in that mountain cemetery, my children will lay me to rest. And when they do, I would like them to know that thanks to the work of this Republican Party, the United States of America is as strong and as proud and as great as ever.

And the thing that we have to do, right now, to make that happen, is to re-elect President Donald J. Trump! 

Mr. President, I will never take for granted the trust you have put in me.

And what an honor it is to help achieve the extraordinary vision you have for our country.

I pledge to every American - no matter your party, I will give everything I have to serve you and to make this country a place where every dream you have for yourself, your family, and your country will be possible once again.

And I promise you one more thing - the people of Middletown, Ohio, and all the forgotten communities in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and every corner of our Nation…

I promise you this - I will NEVER forget where I came from. 

And every single day for the next four years, when I walk into that White House to help President Trump,

I will be doing it FOR YOU and FOR YOUR FAMILY and FOR YOUR FUTURE.

Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.

 

**END**

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MAGA, Inc.
July 17, 2024

Future Vice President J.D. Vance Delivers A Powerful Speech

Ohio Senator J.D. Vance formally accepted the Republican nomination for Vice President of the United States.
 
Donald Trump Jr. said: "Look at me and my friend J.D. Vance. A kid from Appalachia and a kid from Trump Tower...We grew up worlds apart, yet now we're both fighting side by side to save the country we love. And by the way, J.D. Vance is going to make one hell of a vice president."

Future Second Lady Usha Vance: "[J.D.'s] goals in this new role are the same that he has pursued for our family: to keep people safe, to create opportunities, to build a better life and to solve problems with an open mind."

 
Highlights from Senator Vance's speech:

Senator Vance: "Tonight is a night of hope -- a celebration of what America once was, and with God's grace, what it will soon be again. And it is a reminder of the sacred duty we have to preserve the American experiment -- to choose a new path for our children and grandchildren."

Senator Vance: "That's the man I've gotten to know personally over the last few years. He's tough, but he cares about people. He can stand defiant against an assassin one moment and call for national healing the next."

Senator Vance: "Some people tell me I’ve lived the American Dream, and of course, they are right...But the American Dream that always counted most was not starting a business or becoming a senator...My most important American dream was becoming a good husband and a good dad. I wanted to give my kids the things I never had growing up."

Senator Vance: "After 9/11, I did what thousands of other young men my age did in that time of soaring patriotism and love of country: I enlisted in the United States Marines."

Senator Vance: "Things didn't work out well for a lot of kids I grew up with. Every now and then, I will get a call from a relative from back home who asks, 'did you know so and so?... they died of an overdose.' America's ruling class wrote the checks. Communities like mine paid the price."

Senator Vance: "Joe Biden has been a politician in Washington for longer than I've been alive...For half-a-century, he's been the champion of every major policy initiative to make America weaker and poorer."

Senator Vance: "From Iraq to Afghanistan, from the financial crisis to the great recession, from open borders to stagnating wages, the people who govern this Country have failed and failed again...That is of course, until a guy named Donald J. Trump came along."

Senator Vance: "Joe Biden's inflation crisis is really an affordability crisis, and many of the people that I grew up with can't afford to pay more for groceries, more for gas, more for rent. And that's exactly what Joe Biden's economy has given them."

Senator Vance: "Mr. President, I will never take for granted the trust you have put in me. And what an honor it is to help achieve the extraordinary vision that you have for this country. Now I pledge to every American, no matter your Party, I will give you everything I have."

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Biden for President
July 17, 2024

Statement on J.D. Vance Speech

The following is a statement from Biden-Harris 2024 Communications Director Michael Tyler:

“Tonight, J.D. Vance, the poster boy for Project 2025, took center stage. But it’s working families and the middle class who will suffer if he’s allowed to stay there.

“Backed by Silicon Valley and the billionaires who bought his vice presidential selection, Vance is Project 2025 in human form – an agenda that puts extremism and the ultra wealthy over our democracy.

“An agenda that cuts health care, bans abortion, slashes Social Security and Medicare, and is a rubber stamp for Donald Trump to become a dictator on ‘day one’ and ‘terminate’ our Constitution as he wishes.

“A Project 2025 economic agenda that will raise costs on American families, while giving billionaires and corporations tax cuts.

“A Project 2025 foreign policy agenda that turns its back on our allies, makes America less safe, and gives dictators a green light to, as Trump said, ‘do whatever the hell they want’ to our allies.

“J.D. Vance is unprepared, unqualified, and willing to do anything Donald Trump demands.”

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Democratic National Committee War Room
July 17, 2024

JD Vance Backs Trump’s Anti-Worker Project 2025 Agenda to Put Wall Street Over Main Street

FACT: Vance backs Trump’s Project 2025 agenda that includes giving handouts to the ultra-wealthy (again) at the expense of working Americans and risks supercharging inflation.

Vance: “I’ve reviewed a lot of [Project 2025]. There are some good ideas in there.”

Vance on Trump’s plan that would raise tariffs to kill the income tax for wealthiest Americans and raise costs for hardworking families: “This is a fascinating proposal and we could talk for a while about it.”

Trump: “You’re all people that have a lot of money … You’re rich as hell. … We’re gonna give you tax cuts.”

Vanity Fair: “Donald Trump Wants to Give His Favorite Corporations Another Giant Tax Cut in a Second Term: Report”

CBS News: “Two years after Trump tax cuts, middle-class Americans are falling behind”

The Guardian: “Donald Trump’s $1.5tn tax cuts have helped billionaires pay a lower rate than the working class for the first time in history.”

Axios: “Sixteen Nobel prize-winning economists are jumping into the presidential campaign with a stark warning: Former President Trump’s plans would reignite inflation and cause lasting harm to the global economy if he wins in November.”

Project 2025: “The corporate income tax rate should be reduced to 18 percent.”

The Atlantic: “Trump’s Plan to Supercharge Inflation”

FACT: Vance opposes legislation that protects unions, standing firmly against working people.

Politico: “Vance has consistently opposed the PRO Act, the ‘holy grail of pro-union labor reform’ that organized labor and its allies on the Hill have been fighting for over two years to get passed.”

FACT: Vance has railed against Social Security and Medicare and criticized the Affordable Care Act, which Trump is pushing to “terminate.”

Vance: “[Social Security and Medicare] are the biggest roadblocks to any kind of real fiscal sanity.”

Vance: “The way forward is as obvious as it is politically difficult: … reform current entitlements and avoid enacting new ones.”

Vance, in a New York Times Op-Ed: “It is true, as Republicans argue, that health care costs too much. And it is also true that Obamacare has failed to take care of this problem.”

Democratic National Committee War Room
July 17, 2024

WHAT YOU DIDN’T HEAR TONIGHT: Anti-Choice Extremist JD Vance Backed a National Abortion Ban and Compared Abortion to Slavery

Vance said he would like abortion to be “illegal nationally” and would open the door to banning women from traveling across states to get necessary reproductive health care – which is only necessary because of Trump’s state abortion bans.

CNN: “JD Vance said in 2022 he ‘would like abortion to be illegal nationally’”

“‘I certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally,’ Vance said in January 2022 on a podcast when running for Senate.

“During a podcast interview in January 2022, then-candidate JD Vance said he ‘certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally’ and was ‘sympathetic’ to the view that a national ban was necessary to stop women from traveling across states to obtain an abortion.”

Vance’s anti-choice record includes celebrating when Donald Trump overturned Roe v. Wade, supporting a national abortion ban, criticizing exceptions for rape and incest, and comparing abortion to slavery.

JD Vance: “I think that what I really think on – so first of all, the Dobbs decision, everybody knows, overruled Roe v. Wade – I think that was the right decision.”

Manu Raju, CNN: “J.D. Vance, the Ohio GOP senator, says Republicans need to shift their approach on abortion and begin to embrace federal legislation … ‘We can’t give into the idea that the federal Congress has no role in this matter,’ he told us.”

Newsweek: “J.D. Vance Backs ‘National Standard’ for Abortions”

Washington Post: “Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance argues against need for rape and incest exceptions in abortion laws”

Daily Beast: “J.D. Vance suggested he would support prohibiting abortion even in cases of rape and incest—and dismissed those catalysts as ‘inconvenient.’”

Associated Press: “Vance said that he would vote for the national abortion ban at 15 weeks introduced by Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham … He did not explicitly say he supports a rape exception … He said the issue is too complex for him to name all the exceptions he might support on a debate stage.”

Vance: “Ohio has a heartbeat bill [banning abortion before many women know they’re pregnant], I think that’s a good bill.”

Vice: “JD Vance Compared Abortion to Slavery”

The Hill: “Vance has a strong anti-abortion record and was given an A+ ranking by Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, a prominent anti-abortion group.

“He campaigned against Ohio’s 2023 ballot measure that guaranteed the right to abortion, and previously said he’d vote for a nationwide abortion ban at 15 weeks.

“During his campaign for Senate, Vance applauded the overturning of Roe v. Wade and supported Texas’s ban on abortion, which does not allow exceptions other than cases where the mother’s life is at risk. 

“‘Two wrongs don’t make a right,’ he said in 2021 when asked whether abortion laws should allow for exceptions for rape and incest.”

ProPublica: “He argued that conservatives needed to take action against corporations that, say, defended abortion rights or punished employees who spoke out against abortion access. ‘If we’re unwilling to make companies that are taking the side of the left in the culture wars feel real economic pain, then we’re not serious about winning the culture war,’ he said.”

NBC News: “Senate Republicans block Democratic bill codifying Roe v. Wade abortion protections”

“Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked legislation led by Democrats to revive the protections of Roe v. Wade in the wake of the Supreme Court eliminating the nationwide right to abortion.”

Republicans who voted against include: JD Vance.

Vance has repeatedly spoken out against and voted to block legislation to protect access to in vitro fertilization.

The Hill: “Senate Republicans block legislation to codify IVF access”

“Thursday’s vote comes a week after Republicans blocked a similar bill from Democrats that would have guaranteed the right to contraception.”

Republicans who voted against include: JD Vance.

Vanity Fair: “On Wednesday, Senate Republicans are expected to object to Tammy Duckworth’s Right to Build Families Act, because, surprise: They don’t actually care about families and aren’t ‘pro-life.’

“‘It’s idiotic for us to take the bait,’ Senator JD Vance told Politico, as though the measure were some kind of political trap. (He also noted that he had not actually read the bill yet.)”

Vance said it himself: When it comes to ripping away reproductive freedoms, he is in lockstep with Trump.

Sean Hannity, Fox News: “So you completely agree, are in full, complete agreement with President Trump?”

JD Vance: “My view is that Donald Trump is the leader of the Republican Party and his views on abortion are going to be the views that dominate this party and drive this party forward.”