JD Vance in Survey of 2021 Senate campaign websites
On Abortion:
Eliminating abortion makes society pro-child, pro-family
I am 100 percent pro-life and believe that abortion has turned our society into a place where we see children as an inconvenience to be thrown away rather than a blessing to be nurtured.
Eliminating abortion is first and foremost about protecting the unborn, but it's also about making our society more pro-child and pro-family.
Source: 2021 OH Senate campaign website JDVance.com
Oct 3, 2021
On Budget & Economy:
It's time to get inflation under control
Why do we need a "transportation equity" agency to ensure that we don't have too many male truck drivers? Why are we spending billions on battery technologies that are controlled by the Chinese Communist Party and built by Chinese workers? The result of
needless spending is runaway inflation, which has made it harder for normal Americans to afford basic necessities. Inflation has hit our seniors especially hard, many of whom live on a fixed income. It's time to get this inflation under control.
Source: 2021 OH Senate campaign website JDVance.com
Oct 3, 2021
On Corporations:
Stop favoring multinationals; tax exporting jobs
Did you know that Google, a massive technology company that actively works with the Chinese Communist Party pays a lower tax rate than many Ohio manufacturers who struggle desperately to never do business with the Chinese?
At the same time, some of our biggest companies funded Black Lives Matter riots that destroyed our towns and cities. I'm done with an economy that favors anti-American multinationals over pro-American local businesses.
My fellow Republicans love to talk about tax cuts. By all means, let's cut the taxes of the companies that invest in our country. But we're going to raise taxes on companies that ship jobs overseas and use their money to
fund anti-American radical movements. If these companies are going to wage war on America, it's time America wages war on them.
Source: 2021 OH Senate campaign website JDVance.com
Oct 3, 2021
On Drugs:
Tackle drug epidemic, eliminate drugs coming into community
Opioid addiction has devastated my family and my community. More and more Ohioans are falling victim to addiction, which means an entire generation of children orphaned, and another generation of grandparents forced to step up for our community's kids.
Communities are on the decline as job loss and poverty further engulf them. I'll work to tackle the drug epidemic, eliminate the drugs coming into our community, and help those devastated by addiction.
Source: 2021 OH Senate campaign website JDVance.com
Oct 3, 2021
On Education:
No money for critical race theory & radical gender ideology
It's time for us to fight back. Not a single additional dollar for universities--in Ohio or out--that teach critical race theory or radical gender ideology. We need to force our schools to give an honest, patriotic account of American history.
And we must give parents resources to control their kids' education--whether they choose a traditional public school, a charter school, a religious school, or a home school.
Source: 2021 OH Senate campaign website JDVance.com
Oct 3, 2021
On Families & Children:
Reinvigorate American families; tax code penalizes marriage
Many of our families are broken. I know what it's like to grow up without a father in the home, and the problems that can create for a lifetime. We need to reinvigorate the American family, make it easier to support a family
on a single middle-class wage, and encourage fathers to step up in families across our country. Currently our tax code penalizes marriage and family, we should turn that on its head and reward marriage and family.
Source: 2021 OH Senate campaign website JDVance.com
Oct 3, 2021
On Free Trade:
Trump scrapped terrible trade deals, and he was right
Our country used to value working class jobs, and then the manufacturing base of our economy was shipped overseas. I'll fight the corporate elites who want to continue the status quo. President Trump scrapped terrible trade deals and
renegotiated them, imposing punitive tariffs on companies that manufacture in China and other nations. These were the right policies, and the effort to rebuild our industrial base is only beginning.
Source: 2021 OH Senate campaign website JDVance.com
Oct 3, 2021
On Government Reform:
It's time to end the COVID-era changes to our elections
Give Republicans power, and we try to pass a new law; give Democrats power, and they try to legalize electioneering and ballot harvesting. It's time to end the COVID-era changes to our elections--we need to go back to
having an election day in this country, not an election season, and we need other common-sense measures too: Voter ID, signature verification on absentee ballots, and an end to mass mail-in voting.
Source: 2021 OH Senate campaign website JDVance.com
Oct 3, 2021
On Gun Control:
I will fight the gun grabbers punishing law-abiding citizens
Joe Biden and anti-democracy multinational companies are trying to find new ways to take guns away from law-abiding citizens. They're making it harder to buy firearms and ammunition, and imposing new, unconstitutional regulations on American citizens.
I will fight the gun grabbers, whether they're federal bureaucrats enacting regulations or multinational companies punishing people for exercising their rights.
Source: 2021 OH Senate campaign website JDVance.com
Oct 3, 2021
On Health Care:
COVID: against vax passports, mask mandates
COVID-19 is undoubtedly a horrible disease that has killed many Americans. But we now know enough about COVID and have developed therapies and vaccines that should allow us to get back to normal. You shouldn't have to "show your papers"
to go to a restaurant in our country, and our children--who are not at significant risk from COVID-19--should be able to go to school in person, without masks hiding the faces of their friends and teachers.
Source: 2021 OH Senate campaign website JDVance.com
Oct 3, 2021
On Homeland Security:
Stop using America's military as social justice side project
Importantly, American political leaders should stop using America's military as a social justice side project.
Our troops don't need to focus on diversity or equity or any other progressive buzzword; they need to focus on fighting and winning America's wars.
Source: 2021 OH Senate campaign website JDVance.com
Oct 3, 2021
On Immigration:
Oppose amnesty; build the wall; double border agents
Biden's policies have created a crisis out of thin air, after four years of President Trump's successful efforts to get our border under control. As Ohio's next senator, I will oppose every attempt by the Democrats to grant amnesty, so that our
communities are safe places to live and work and raise a family. I'll also work to finish construction of a border wall, and double the number of border agents in our country.We also must reform our legal immigration system.
In no other developed country do we allow migration primarily based on family relations rather than skills. Millions of people want to come here, and we should only allow them if they contribute something meaningful to our country.
Our capacity to assimilate the next generation of immigrants is limited, and our legal immigration system should account for this fact by changing who we let in and reducing the total numbers.
Source: 2021 OH Senate campaign website JDVance.com
Oct 3, 2021
On Principles & Values:
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
On Technology:
We need to break up the big tech companies
The tech industry promised all of us better lives and faster communication; instead, it steals our private information, sells it to the Chinese, and then censors conservatives and others for daring to have a controversial opinion.
The solution is simple: we need to break up the big tech companies, to reduce their power in our economy and our politics. We also need to ban the theft of our personal information. If they want our data, it's time they paid for it.
Source: 2021 OH Senate campaign website JDVance.com
Oct 3, 2021
On War & Peace:
Only global elites profit from endless nation-building wars
For two decades, global elites have played a trick on normal Americans: send your sons and daughters to die for nation-building wars in some far flung corner of the world, and when their utopian fantasies fail, accept millions of
refugees into middle and working class neighborhoods. This is a bad deal for Americans, a bad deal for our troops, a bad deal for the refugees, but a good deal for the elites who profit from endless war.
Source: 2021 OH Senate campaign website JDVance.com
Oct 3, 2021
On Free Trade:
U.S. companies struggle with unfair competition from China
JD moved back to Ohio in 2017. He has seen firsthand livelihoods devastated by job loss, addiction, economic turmoil and so much more. He stood up a business in Cincinnati and has focused on growing companies that create well-paying jobs.
His business experience taught him firsthand that so many American companies struggle with unfair competition from China and from their own government, which often rewards multinational technology firms over Ohio small businesses.
Source: 2021 Ohio Senate campaign website JDVance.com
Jul 4, 2021
On Gun Control:
Grandmother gave tough love, discipline; owned 19 handguns
Turbulence was common at home and at school. JD's father left home when he was a young boy. His mother struggled with drug addiction his entire life. His grandmother, called Mamaw, was his saving grace. Her tough love and discipline kept him on the
straight and narrow. That, or maybe the fact that she owned 19 handguns. She taught him the importance of being grounded in faith and family and the prospect that a better life lay ahead.
Source: 2021 Ohio Senate campaign website JDVance.com
Jul 4, 2021
On Principles & Values:
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
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