JD Vance Content — from Ohioans who know how bad he is

Updated Friday 7/19/24 at 10:00 pm EST

Vance’s Deleted Tweets

• https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/06/politics/jd-vance-tweets-trump-apology/index.html
• ‘My god what an idiot’: J.D. Vance gets whacked for past Trump comments
• Vance said “Trump provides that sense of community that many in the white working class would have, if they actually went to church”
• Vance lists himself as someone who “fights Trump most aggressively”
• “Lord help us”
• Vance didn’t vote for Trump
• Trump is “reprehensible”

Vance called Trump “America’s Hitler”

• Vance wondered whether Trump was ‘America’s Hitler,’ says former roommate
• State senator reflects on former roommate’s rise to a lead Trump VP pick
• J.D. Vance said Trump might be 'America's Hitler' in 2016 text message
• Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance questioned whether Trump is like Hitler in 2016 message
• https://x.com/bluestein/status/1812221963814731808

Vance said racism explained Trump’s popularity

• Vance repeatedly cited racism as reason Trump drew so much support in 2016
• JD Vance said the Republican Party’s three-decade strategy was antagonizing Black voters

Vance believes Trump’s accusers

• JD Vance suggests Trump’s sexual assault accuser was telling the truth
• J.D. Vance Sings Different Tune on Trump Accuser in Resurfaced Interview
• Leading Trump VP contender ‘liked’ tweets accusing ex-president of 'serial sexual assault'

Vance thinks people should stay in violent marriages

• JD Vance Suggests People in ‘Violent’ Marriages Shouldn’t Get Divorced
• JD Vance Slammed for Suggesting Women Stay in Violent Marriages
• Vance suggests women should stay in “violent” marriages because divorce makes kids “unhappy”

• JD Vance: If people love their kids, they’ll stay in violent marriages

• Ohio advocates for domestic violence victims are taking issue with J.D. Vance

Vance ran a fake opioid charity

• 'Hillbilly Elegy' author JD Vance is running for Senate as a savior of the Rust Belt. Insiders and experts say that reputation is unearned.
• Vance opioid charity was “a charade," -Doug White, nonprofit expert and former director of the master's program in fundraising management at Columbia University
• J.D. Vance’s First Attempt to “Renew Ohio” Crumbled Quickly
• Watch: JD Vance Gets Called Out for ‘Fake’ Opioid Nonprofit

Vance funds a company that tests on live monkeys and dogs

• J.D. Vance Has a Burnt Monkey Testicle Problem
• “15 dogs had to be put down. Two more were found dead in the lab. Regimens at higher doses had to be curtailed “due to the early death of multiple animals,” the study reported.”

Vance blamed Uvalde shooting on “fatherlessness”

• https://x.com/TaylorPopielarz/status/1529549159069413377 
• https://x.com/Tylerjoelb/status/1529550898053238785 

Vance is troubled by “childless” Americans

• JD Vance blames America’s woes on ‘the childless left’
• JD Vance's Attack on the 'Childless Left'
• https://x.com/JDVance1/status/1458471055446659072 
• JD Vance takes aim at culture wars, childless politicians
• Vance Blasts ‘Childless Left’ Who Have ‘No Physical Commitment To The Future Of This Country’

Vance voted against protecting IVF

• https://x.com/BidenHQ/status/1801317673202340163 
• https://newrepublic.com/post/182712/republican-senator-vote-protect-ivf-full-list 

Vance wants to “end abortion” even in cases of rape or incest

• Vance aims to “end abortion”
• Vance statement after Supreme Court overturned Roe
• Video: JD Vance makes false claims about Ohio abortion rights constitutional amendment
• Vance signed a letter asking to send funds meant for low-income mothers to unregulated “crisis pregnancy centers” instead
• Audio — Vance supports a national abortion ban

• Discusses Soros sending daily "747s to Columbus to load up disproportionately Black women…to go have abortions in California"

• Doctor tweet — Vance is dangerous
• JD Vance argues against need for rape and incest exceptions in abortion laws

Vance wants police to track people who have abortions

• J.D. Vance Wants Police To Track People Who Have Abortions
• Letter opposing reproductive health privacy rule — co-signed by JD Vance

Vance says “universal child care is class war against normal people”

• JD Vance blasted after he equates Biden’s free childcare to ‘class war’
• J.D. Vance says universal child care is an attack on the working poor. That's ridiculous.
• Child care has bipartisan support. But the culture war could wreck that.

Vance opposes bill protecting same-sex marriages / interracial marriages

• Vance would vote against codifying right to marriage for same-sex couples
• JD Vance Says He Would Vote "No" on Same Sex Marriage

• JD Vance opposes bill to protect gay, interracial marriage rights

Vance wants to ban porn

• JD Vance On Porn: Ban It To Save Families
• “JD Vance blames porn and abortion for creating an ‘isolated generation that isn’t getting married’”
• Vance says porn is one reason why birth rates in the US are declining

Vance would not have certified 2020 election results

• JD Vance says he still questions results of 2020 election
• JD Vance says he’d totally do a coup if he gets the chance
• JD Vance says he's wouldn't have certified 2020 race until states submitted pro-Trump electors

Vance says “attack the universities” and “professors are the enemy”

• Video — JD Vance: “Professors are the enemy”
• Video — JD Vance: “We have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities”
• “Less than a week after JD Vance declared ‘professors are the enemy,’ three Ivy League schools in the northeast received bomb threats”
• Article: ‘Attack the universities’. Trump’s VP pick JD Vance targets higher education

Vance calls for takeover of higher education

• Vance calls for takeover of higher education to combat 'left-wing domination'
• https://x.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1799943979502538766 
• Vance doubles down on praise for Viktor Orbán’s crackdown on universities in Hungary

Vance strongly opposes diversity, equity, and inclusion in schools/workplaces

• Vance letter to OSU

JD Vance and white nationalism

• JD Vance furious over Forbes article on how to 'decenter Whiteness,' will investigate author's DEI firm
• JD Vance defends Tucker Carlson over leaked 'how white men fight' text
• Vance is following white nationalists on Twitter/X
• JD Vance: Greene ‘did nothing wrong’ by attending white nationalist conference

Vance discusses his plan to obtain power

• Reason magazine: “A new authoritarian political style is on the ballot in Ohio”
• JD Vance says “We should just seize the administrative state for our own purposes”
• Vance wants to “completely replace the existing ruling class with another ruling class”
• JD Vance says “We really need to be really ruthless when it comes to the exercise of power”

Vance wants to “seize” and “penalize” corporate endowments

• Video — JD Vance: “...seize the endowment…penalize these endowments for being on the wrong side of these culture war issues.”
• https://x.com/patriottakes/status/1568020672185769984 

Vance wants to “seize” and “tax” foundation assets

• Video — JD Vance: “Why don't we seize the assets of the Ford Foundation, tax their assets, and give it to the people…”

Vance shifts views on stock trades

• JD Vance, who once called for a ban on congressional stock trades, sold up to $100,000 in stock last year

Vance is considering raising taxes

• Bash the banks, maybe raise taxes: Inside Vance’s policy agenda

Vance promotes fringe “Replacement Theory” conspiracy

• Vance claims Democrats “have decided that they can’t win reelection in 2022 unless they bring a large number of new voters to replace the voters that are already here.”
• J.D. Vance advocates the so-called "Great Replacement" theory

Vance “doesn’t really care what happens in Ukraine”

• GOP Senate candidate JD Vance said he doesn't 'really care what happens to Ukraine'
• Vance’s dismissive attitude toward Ukraine is an insult to 70,000 Ukrainian Americans in Ohio
• J.D. Vance’s Ukraine math doesn’t add up
• Video: Vance Says He Doesn't Care About Ukraine

Vance voted against a fentanyl bill he cosponsored because it contained Ukraine aid

• For Senator JD Vance, is not backing Ukraine more important than the fight against fentanyl?

Vance on foreign policy

• Trump’s VP pick spells ‘disaster’ for Europe and Ukraine — Vance champions US isolationism and opposes Ukraine aid

Vance is bad for American workers

• J.D. Vance Doesn't Care About Autoworkers
• JD Vance’s Republican Party is for bosses, not workers
• Vance quietly delayed the timeline for safer tank cars that help prevent train spills like one in East Palestine

JD Vance is a Yale-educated “member of the elite” (his words)

• “I react viscerally to this idea that I am a member of the elite, even though it’s objectively true” -JD Vance
• “Im a fan of “Hillbilly Elegy”—even the movie!—but I can no longer admire the plutocratic fraud that its author has become”
• US Senator J.D. Vance slams “elites” despite shared backgrounds

Vance wrote blog posts under a pen name: JD Hamel

• The book J.D. Vance doesn’t want you to read
• The JD Vance I Knew: His abilities, I never underestimated. What he was willing to do for political advancement, I did.
• JD “Hamel” blog posts

Vance on guns

• Vance stated in an “Ohio Gun Owners” questionnaire that he:

• opposes popular “Red Flag Laws” (which allow a judge to temporarily remove firearms from someone who is an imminent threat to themselves or others)
• opposes expanded background checks
• supports “Stand Your Ground” (also known as “Kill At Will” laws
• wants to get rid of the “Gun Free School Zone Act”

Vance on cutting Social Security

• Trump VP Pick JD Vance Supported Cutting Social Security in Old Blog Posts
• JD Vance: Medicare and Social Security Benefits Are “Roadblocks” to “Fiscal Sanity”

JD Vance has close ties to Big Pharma

• J.D. Vance has a Big Pharma problem
• Vance’s anti-drug charity enlisted doctor with ties to OxyContin manufacturer

Vance takes big money from oil companies

• https://x.com/KateAronoff/status/1702689318974742592 
• JD Vance complains about gas prices while raking in fossil fuel industry money

Appalachian Americans really don’t like JD Vance

• ‘He’s Dangerous. So Is His Book.’
• Appodlachia podcast
• https://x.com/appodlachia/status/1242235130741166089/photo/1
• Young Appalachian Leaders protest Vance
• Video — Appalachian Studies Conference attendees turn their backs on Vance in protest
• Coalfields lawyer authors book that says J.D. Vance is a ‘fake hillbilly’

Articles about Vance’s book, “Hillbilly Elegy”

• Hillbilly Elegy: Bad Politics, Even Worse Cinema
• https://x.com/Eileen15Jones/status/1336011626714189825
• JD Vance, the False Prophet of Blue Collar America
• Hillbilly Elitism

Ohioans really don’t like JD Vance

• "....they sense an emptiness in J.D. He believes in nothing. Stands for nothing. Wait a week, and he might be doing a Bernie Sanders impression if he thinks it will get him elected."
• Cleveland Scene: The breathtaking emptiness of JD Vance
• 5 Terrible Things to Remember About Middletown Native J.D. Vance, Trump's New Darling

Religious Americans really don’t like JD Vance

• Published on ReligionNews.com — J.D. Vance channels hate in Ohio Senate primary
• Published in National Catholic Reporter — JD Vance gives Catholicism a bad name

Vance honors Kyle Rittenhouse

• https://x.com/TalbertSwan/status/1463516312567791617 
• J.D. Vance says Kyle Rittenhouse exhibited ‘basic manly virtue’ during Kenosha shootings
• JD Vance says more young men should be like Kyle Rittenhouse

Vance Supports Alex Jones

• Vance says Alex Jones — who promoted conspiracies about the Sandy Hook massacre — is reputable and “censored by the regime”
• In Private Speech, JD Vance Said the “Devil Is Real” and Praised Alex Jones as a Truth-Teller

Vance Claims President Biden is trying to “kill a bunch of MAGA voters”

• “If you wanted to kill a bunch of MAGA voters in the middle of the heartland, how better to target them and their kids with this fentanyl .. It does look intentional. It’s like Biden wants to punish people who didn’t vote for him.”

Vance supported January 6th attempted insurrection

• https://x.com/BidenHQ/status/1785840420078952926 
• https://x.com/atrupar/status/1785839777926807593 
• https://x.com/JDVance1/status/1432492906254901250 
• GRAPHIC images — Vance raised money for insurrectionists who attacked Capitol Police

JD Vance supports Project 2025

• https://x.com/BidensWins/status/1811521853682242035 
• https://x.com/BidenHQ/status/1810736870906789901 

Vance swings to the extreme right

• Is There Something More Radical than MAGA? JD Vance Is Dreaming It.
• “In a candid series of conversations, Vance revealed an ominous philosophy behind his first year in office.”

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