Donald Trump and J.D. Vance
Donald Trump and J.D. Vance

Donald Trump has officially picked J.D. Vance as his running mate.
Vance first came to national attention with his book “Hillbilly Elegy,” and wrote that Donald Trump is “America’s Hitler.” He is now the running mate for a man that he called “America’s Hitler.”
That’s because Vance is a man with no real core – he’ll do what he can to rubber stamp the agenda of a man he used to call “America’s Hitler.” Together, they’ll pass national abortion bans, cut taxes for Donald Trump and JD Vance’s rich friends, and let Donald Trump serve as a “dictator on day one.”
Here’s everything you need to know about Trump’s VP pick J.D. Vance:
J.D. Vance supports a nationwide ban on abortion
- Vance is an anti-choice extremist who has compared abortion to slavery and supports a nationwide abortion ban.
- Vance has signaled he opposes exceptions for rape and incest survivors, saying “two wrongs don’t make a right” and calling those circumstances “inconvenient.”
J.D. Vance supports Donald Trump’s attempts to overthrow our Democracy
- Vance is an extreme election denier who admitted he would not have immediately certified the 2020 election results, echoes Trump’s baseless election denial lies, and has repeatedly attempted to whitewash the violent January 6 insurrection.
- Vance has hedged on accepting the results of this November’s election.
J.D. Vance wants to rip away health care from millions
- Vance has railed against the Affordable Care Act, saying it “failed to take care of” high health care costs.
- Vance has called Social Security and Medicare “the biggest roadblocks to any kind of real fiscal sanity.”
J.D. Vance refuses protect Americans from gun violence
- Vance sides with the gun lobby over commonsense gun safety solutions – calling gun violence “fake problems” and efforts to address it “a huge distraction.”
J.D. Vance opposed common sense measure to protect our borders
- Vance called the bipartisan border security deal “bullshit” — and then killed it at Trump’s command.
J.D. Vance supports overturning marriage equality
- Vance opposes legislation to codify marriage equality.
But at the end of the day, J.D. Vance has no political core beyond far right extremism
- Vance previously claimed Trump was unfit for office and described him as “America’s Hitler” before kissing the ring and walking back his criticisms.
- Vance defended Trump’s cruel immigration rhetoric that echoed Nazi Germany.
- Vance has aligned himself with far-right extremists, calling MTG “a friend” and endorsing an insurrectionist for Congress.
- Vance supports Trump’s plan to reward Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine.