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JD Vance on Principles & Values
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People have gotten rich and powerful off of American decline
A person with a bachelor's degree lives seven years longer than a person without a bachelor's degree. There are a lot of people who have gotten rich and powerful off--off of American decline. Some of them have had R's next to their name. Some of them
have had D's next to their name. And the first person who I believe is really putting the interest of the American people first is Donald J. Trump. So, yes, we're going to be the president and the vice president for all people.
Source: CNN SOTU interview: 2024 Vice Presidential Veepstakes
, Oct 27, 2024
No inconsistency in loyalty to Constitution and to Trump
Of course my loyalty is to the American people and to the United States Constitution. But I think the best way to accomplish that loyalty, Kristen, is to get back to a president who delivered the fastest-rising take-home pay in a generation, 1.5%
inflation and a secure southern border. I don't think there's inconsistency between loyalty to the Constitution and support for Donald Trump. That's why I'm out there trying to persuade my fellow Americans that Donald Trump's presidency worked for them.
Source: Meet the Press interview: 2024 Vice Presidential Veepstakes
, Oct 27, 2024
Censorship is bigger threat to democracy than Donald Trump
JDV: We don't have to agree on every issue, but we're united behind a basic American First Amendment principle that we ought to debate our differences. We ought to argue about them. We ought to try to persuade our fellow Americans. Kamala Harris is
engaged in censorship at an industrial scale. She did it during COVID, she's done it over a number of other issues. That is a much bigger threat to democracy than what Donald Trump said when he said that protesters should peacefully protest on January
6th.TW: Democracy is bigger than winning an election. You shake hands and then you try and do everything you can to help the other side win. To deny what happened on January 6, the first time in American history that a President or anyone tried
to overturn a fair election and the peaceful transfer of power. And here we are four years later in the same boat. When this is over, we need to shake hands and the winner needs to be the winner. This has got to stop. It's tearing our country apart.
Source: 2024 Vice Presidential debate: Tim Walz vs. JD Vance
, Oct 2, 2024
The real threat to democracy is censorship, not Jan. 6
Q: You have said you would not have certified the last Presidential election. Would you again seek to challenge this year's election results?VANCE: We're focused on the future. I believe that we actually do have a threat to democracy in this country,
but it is the threat of censorship.
WALZ: Donald Trump refused to acknowledge that he lost this election.
VANCE: For years in this country, Democrats protested the results of elections. Hillary Clinton in 2016 said that Donald Trump had the election
stolen because the Russians bought, like, $500,000 worth of Facebook ads.
WALZ: January 6th was not Facebook ads. Donald Trump is still saying he didn't lose the election. I would just ask that: Did he lose the 2020 election?
VANCE: Tim,
I'm focused on the future. Did Kamala Harris censor Americans from speaking their mind in the wake of the 2020 COVID situation?
WALZ: That is a damning non answer.
VANCE: It's a damning non answer for you to not talk about censorship.
Source: 2024 Vice Presidential debate: Tim Walz vs. JD Vance
, Oct 1, 2024
Excluding God violates fundamental Founder principles
Q: Religious liberty is at risk in the United States and deserves the highest level of protection in the law.A: Strongly Agree
Q: Individuals and businesses should be required to provide services even if it would violate their moral and/or
religious beliefs.
A: Strongly Disagree
Q: What should be the relationship between the church and the state?
A: From the founding of this Nation, churches have formed an integral part of our civic engagement. John Adams famously said, "Our
Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." I worry that as our society drifts further and further from God, America is drifting further away from the Constitution and
Democratic Republic our founders gave us. Our founders allowed state establishments of religion. Excluding God violates this fundamental principle.
Source: American Family Association 2022 iVoterGuide
, Nov 1, 2022
Churches integral to civic engagement since the founding
Candidate Profile Questionnaire: RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: - Q: What should be the relationship between the church and the state?
A: From the founding of this Nation, churches have formed an integral part of our civic engagement. John Adams famously
said, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." I worry that as our society drifts further and further from God, America is drifting further away from the Constitution and
Democratic Republic our founders gave us. Our founders allowed state establishments of religion. Excluding God violates this fundamental principle. - Q: Religious liberty is at risk in the United States and deserves the highest level of protection in
the law?
A: Strongly Agree. - Q: Individuals and businesses should be required to provide services even if it would violate their moral and/or religious beliefs?
A: Strongly Disagree
Source: AFA iVoterGuide on 2022 Ohio Senate
, Nov 1, 2022
2020 election was stolen by very powerful people
When J.D. Vance was asked in January 2022 whether he felt the election was stolen, Vance responded, "Yeah, I do." Vance continued: "I mean, look, I think the fundamental problem is we had a massive effort to shift the election by very powerful people in
this country. I don't care whether you say it's rigged, whether you say it's stolen."As Ohio's Republican primary continued, Vance explicitly claimed that "I think the election was stolen from Trump.
Vance told Youngstown's The Vindicator newspaper
in October 2021 that "there were certainly people voting illegally on a large-scale basis," though that is not true. And though Vance said the election in Ohio was "pretty gold standard," he also said "I think it's probably true that Trump won by a
larger margin in Ohio," though there is no basis for questioning Trump's certified 8-point margin of victory there.
Vance said in July 2021 that "I think Josh Hawley did the right thing" in objecting to the certification of some Biden-won states.
Source: CNN on 2020 Election Denial in 2022 Ohio Senate race
, Sep 15, 2022
Failure to thrive comes from lack of personal responsibility
His family were what he calls "hillbillies": white, working class, mostly of Scots-Irish decent and with no education beyond secondary school. In his book, Vance remembers the family as proud, clannish and occasionally violent.Rather than sink into
a familiar pattern of sporadic employment, drugs and violence, he joined the Marines for four years and served in Iraq before going to Ohio State University. There, he gained a degree in political science and philosophy. He gained admission to Yale Law
School, where he began his memoir, published in 2016 just as Donald Trump was making his ultimately successful pitch for the US presidency.
While the book does not mention Trump, some commentators described it as a window into a conservative white
working class often overlooked by Ivy League-educated coastal elites. Profoundly conservative, Vance put the blame of the hillbillies' failure to thrive on culture and a lack of personal responsibility, rather than systemic issues of economics and policy.
Source: BBC News commentary on "Hillbilly Elegy"
, May 3, 2022
Memoir made into popular Netflix film in 2020
A conservative columnist wrote that [in 2016, Vance's memoir] gave poor white people "voice and presence in the public square" at a time when they were key supporters of Mr Trump. In 2020 it was turned into a film, directed by Ron Howard and starring
Glenn Close. Despite unfavourable reviews, it was one of the most-streamed films on Netflix at the end of the year.While Vance was no Trump loyalist--and was sometimes harshly critical--he repeatedly said he understood the reasons for his popularity.
Source: BBC News commentary on "Hillbilly Elegy"
, May 3, 2022
Met wife at Yale Law School as his "Yale spirit guide"
In 2017, Mr Vance moved back to Ohio from California, where he had been working in biotech. He married a Yale Law classmate, Usha Chilukuri (now Vance), who had clerked at the Supreme Court. In Hillbilly Elegy, he described her as his "Yale spirit
guide", who helped him navigate the socially treacherous waters of the Ivy League and the recruitment rounds of the big law firms. The couple now have a son.
Source: BBC News commentary on "Hillbilly Elegy"
, May 3, 2022
Recruited to run for Senate by GOP Tech billionaires
Mr Vance joined "Revolution," a company established by AOL founder Steve Case to funnel venture capital to the parts of the country that otherwise went overlooked--places such as Middletown, Ohio. He considered, and then decided against, a Senate run.
In 2019, he set up his own venture capital operation, Narya Capital, with backing from PayPal founder Peter Thiel, a sometime libertarian and rare Republican in Silicon Valley.
In early 2021, Mr Thiel gave $10m to a committee seeking to recruit
Mr Vance as a Senate candidate to succeed Rob Portman, who had announced he would not be seeking a third term in 2022. In July 2021, Mr Vance officially entered the race.
The announcement came with an abrupt change in tone regarding former
President Trump, with Mr Vance apologising for previously calling him "reprehensible" and repeating Mr Trump's claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election. In April, Mr Vance secured a much-coveted endorsement from Mr Trump.
Source: BBC News 2024 Veepstakes
, May 3, 2022
US most prosperous nation, our leaders let it decline
Our leaders have failed. They chose to flood our country with criminals and drugs. They chose to take a knee as radicals ransacked our cities and made our communities less safe. They chose to make a quick buck by selling our industrial base to China.
They chose censorship over the First Amendment. Our parents and grandparents gave us the most prosperous nation in the world, and our leaders have chosen decline and plunder.
Source: 2021 OH Senate campaign website JDVance.com
, Oct 3, 2021
Public policy views aligned with Catholic social teaching
My views on public policy and what the optimal state should look like are pretty aligned with Catholic social teaching. That was one of the things that drew me to the Catholic Church. I saw a real overlap between what I would like to see and what the
Catholic Church would like to see. I hope my faith makes me more compassionate and to identify with people who are struggling. But my politics have been pretty consistent over the past few years.
Source: The American Conservative on 2022 Ohio Senate race
, Aug 11, 2021
Leaders conspire to make life harder for normal Americans
Ohio needs a true conservative in the U.S. Senate. It needs someone who understands how our economic and government leaders conspire to make life harder for normal Americans. It needs someone who knows what it's like to live in a left-behind community.
It needs someone who is not a career politician, recycling cheap establishment talking points instead of focusing on our real problems. A conservative outsider. That outsider is JD Vance.
Source: 2021 Ohio Senate campaign website JDVance.com
, Jul 4, 2021
Willing to wade through a little crap to save this country
I have two boys. I love those kids. I want them to live in the same great country that I lived in. If we don't do something, they're going to grow up in a country that's much poorer, that's much dirtier, that's much uglier, and where
they can't even speak their mind as citizens. It's time to fight back though. If you're not willing to wade through a little crap to save this country, then you're not willing to stand up on the big stage, and I am.
Source: Fox News on 2022 Ohio Senate race
, Jul 2, 2021
Critical of Trump in 2016, enthusiastic supporter in 2020
He was initially critical of former President Donald Trump in 2016 but has since changed his mind about that, too. "I think he delivered on his promises to make the country a better place," Vance said. "So, I think I saw this guy, he was an outsider.
I didn't really believe he was serious. And then I saw the guy in action. And I thought he was a successful president. That's why I supported him enthusiastically in 2020. So I changed because he did a good job."
Source: WCPO-TV ABC-9 on 2022 Ohio Senate race
, Jul 2, 2021
Wokeness will make everything boring and ugly
Vance was angered when he learned that writer Josh Safran, who will be the showrunner for the new "Gossip Girl" that will stream on HBO Max, has reworked the wealthy Manhattan socialite characters to make them more aware of the privileged lives they
lead. Vance was not fond of this artistic decision, however, and railed that the teen drama was the latest work of art to fall victim to "wokeness.""Wokeness will make everything boring and ugly," he wrote.
Source: RawStory.com blog on 2022 Ohio Senate race
, Jun 22, 2021
OpEd: Vance explains the economically precarious white voter
J.D. Vance is the man of the hour, maybe the year. His memoir Hillbilly Elegy is a New York Times bestseller, acclaimed for its colorful and at times moving account of life in a dysfunctional clan of eastern Kentucky natives. It has received positive
reviews across the board, with the Times calling it "a compassionate, discerning sociological analysis of the white underclass." In the rise of Donald Trump, it has become a kind of Rosetta Stone for blue America to interpret that most mysterious of
species: the economically precarious white voter.Vance's influence has been everywhere this campaign season, shaping our conception of what motivates these voters. And it is already playing a role in how liberals are responding to Donald Trump's
victory in the presidential election, which was accomplished in part by a defection of downscale whites from the Democratic Party. Appalachia overwhelmingly voted for Trump, and Vance has since emerged as one of the media's favorite Trump explainers.
Source: The New Republic magazine on Hillbilly Elegy
, Nov 17, 2016
JD Vance on Trump Campaign
Attended Trump hush money trial in NYC
Sen. JD Vance joined a crowded New York courtroom to catch some of the criminal trial of former Republican President Donald Trump. Why is JD Vance, senator from Ohio, sitting in the courtroom during the trial of former President Donald Trump, instead of
conducting Ohio's business in Washington?My best guess is that he's campaigning hard to be the vice presidential pick for Trump. He was among several Republicans that attended Trump's hush money trial in New York City yesterday as Michael Cohen took
the stand and Vance made several tweets on X. He says the trial is psychological torture.
He dissed key witness and former Trump fixer, Michael Cohen. And then he says that district attorney Alvin Bragg is keeping supporters away from outside of the
courthouse. [Vance said], "We started in Trump Tower with a beautiful view of Central Park and then came to a dingy courthouse with people like Alvin Bragg. And he says Trump is expected to sit for six weeks and listen to the Michael Cohens of the world."
Source: Cleveland Plain-Dealer on 2024 Veepstakes
, May 14, 2024
Known as the "Trump Whisperer" for explaining his support
Vance was colloquially known as the Trump Whisperer by critics who said Vance could explain why Middletown and the surrounding areas showed up in droves to vote for President Trump."Trump was just talking about real issues," said Vance. "And
whether you agreed or disagreed with the president I think most people recognized that he actually identified something real in our country, which is that a lot of the communities feel like they've been left behind, because they have been left behind."
Source: WTOL-11 Newsroom on 2022 Ohio Senate race
, Jul 3, 2021
2016: Trump makes people I care about afraid
He was publicly critical of Trump during the 2016 election cycle--calling him "noxious" in an interview with NPR--and ultimately voted for independent Evan McMullin that year. He cast Trump supporters as unmarried, uneducated and less
likely to attend church. "Trump makes people I care about afraid," Vance said in October 2016. "Immigrants, Muslims, etc. Because of this I find him reprehensible."
Source: Cincinnati Enquirer on 2022 Ohio Senate race
, Jul 1, 2021
2016: Trump reprehensible; 2020: evolved to support Trump
Vance was once a stern critic of former President Trump. Now, as a candidate for the Republican Senate nomination in Ohio, he is a big Trump fan. How and why Vance moved from one position to the other is a topic of red-hot debate [and] a window into the
current state of the Republican Party, riven by tensions over the 45th president & the long shadow he casts.CNN uncovered old tweets in which Vance had called Trump "reprehensible" in relation to his policies on "immigrants, Muslims etc." In another
tweet from 2016, Vance said he would vote for an independent candidate, Evan McMullin, rather than Trump or Hillary Clinton. In early 2016, Vance wrote in USA Today that "Trump's actual policy proposals, such as they are, range from immoral to absurd."
Vance gave a penitent interview [this week]: "I ask folks not to judge me based on what I said in 2016, because I've been very open that I did say those critical things and I regret them, and I regret being wrong about the guy," Vance said.
Source: The Hill e-zine on 2022 Ohio Senate race
, May 6, 2021
Trump speaks to my people, who are really struggling
Q: A friend who moved to West Virginia tells me that she's never seen poverty and hopelessness like what's common there. And she says you can drive through the poorest parts of the state, and see nothing but TRUMP signs. Reading "Hillbilly Elegy" tells
me why. Explain it to people who haven't yet read your book. A: The simple answer is that these people--my people--are really struggling, and there hasn't been a single political candidate who speaks to those struggles in a long time.
Donald Trump at least tries.
The two political parties have offered essentially nothing to these people for a few decades. From the Left, they get some smug condescension, an exasperation that the white working class votes against their economic
interests because of social issues. From the Right, they've gotten the basic Republican policy platform of tax cuts, free trade, and economic growth. Trump's candidacy is music to their ears. He criticizes the factories shipping jobs overseas.
Source: American Conservative Q&A with author of "Hillbilly Elegy"
, Jul 22, 2016
Teflon Don: Trump's "blunders" are relatable and refreshing
To me, there's a lot of ignorance around "Teflon Don." No one seems to understand why conventional blunders do nothing to Trump. But what elites see as blunders people back home see as someone who--finally--conducts themselves in a relatable way.
He shoots from the hip; he's not constantly afraid of offending someone; he'll get angry about politics; he'll call someone a liar or a fraud. This is how a lot of people in the white working class actually talk about politics, and even many elites
recognize how refreshing it can be! So it's not really a blunder as much as it is a rich, privileged Wharton grad connecting to people back home through style and tone. All the talk about "political correctness" isn't about any specific substantive
point, as much as it is a way of expanding the scope of acceptable behavior. People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.
Source: The American Conservative on 2024 Veepstakes
, Jul 22, 2016
I love, and am terrified of, Donald Trump
Q: What did watching Donald Trump's speech last night [at the 2016 Republican Convention] make you think about the future of the country?A: Well, I think the speech itself was a perfect microcosm of why I love and am terrified of Donald Trump.
On the one hand, he criticized the elites and actually acknowledge the hurt of so many working class voters. After so many years of Republican politicians refusing to even talk about factory closures, Trump's message is an oasis in the desert.
But of course he spent way too much time appealing to people's fears, and he offered zero substance for how to improve their lives. It was Trump at his best and worst. My biggest fear with Trump is that, because of the failures of the Republican and
Democratic elites, the bar for the white working class is too low. They're willing to listen to Trump about rapist immigrants and banning all Muslims because other parts of his message are clearly legitimate.
Source: The American Conservative on 2024 Veepstakes
, Jul 22, 2016
Trump is cultural heroin: you feel better for a little bit
To many, Donald Trump feels good, but he can't fix America's growing social and cultural crisis, and the eventual comedown will be harsh.A common thread among Trump's faithful, even among those whose individual circumstances remain unspoiled, is that
they hail from broken communities. These are places where good jobs are impossible to come by. Where people have lost their faith and abandoned the churches. Where too many young people spend their days stoned instead of working and learning.
[These are,] in the aggregate, a social crisis of historic proportions. There is no group of people hurtling more quickly to social decay. No group of people fears the future more, and exposes its children to such significant domestic chaos.
Trump's promises are the needle in America's collective vein. What Trump offers is an easy escape from the pain. Trump is cultural heroin. He makes some feel better for a bit. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they'll realize it.
Source: The Atlantic on 2024 Veepstakes: Vance OpEd
, Jul 4, 2016
Endorsed by Donald Trump/MAGA after presidency.
Vance is endorsed by Trump/MAGA endorsement list
Endorsements by Donald Trump, implying support of Trump's agenda and electoral style.
The phrase `Make America Great Again` was popularized in Trump`s 2015 book Time to Get Tough:Making America Great Again. It is the campaign slogan embroidered on the ubiquitous red caps seen at Trump rallies (which after Trump`s presidency, became known as `MAGA rallies`).
Source: Ballotpedia 2016-2022 endorsement list 2022-MAGA on Jan 1, 2022
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