MILWAUKEE — Democrats and their allies wasted little time planning their line of attack against Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), former President Donald Trump 's newly announced running mate.
American Bridge 21st Century's opposition research on Vance listed at least five areas in which to criticize Vance, including abortion, Social Security, Medicare and social services, democracy and the Capitol riots, problems with Trump, and the environment and energy.
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The research claimed Vance opposed abortion bans without any emergency exceptions, supported a federal abortion ban, called to cut Medicare, said he wouldn't have certified the 2020 election, and referenced Vance not voting for Trump in 2016, the first time he successfully ran for president.
Leaders with the Democratic National Committee and President Joe Biden's campaign echoed these criticisms in statements released mere moments after Trump announced on Truth Social that Vance would join his ticket.
"J.D. Vance embodies MAGA — with an out-of-touch extreme agenda and plans to help Trump force his Project 2025 agenda on the American people," said DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison, in a statement Monday. "Vance has championed and enabled Trump’s worst policies for years — from a national abortion ban to whitewashing Jan. 6 to railing against Social Security and Medicare."
"Donald Trump picked J.D. Vance as his running mate because Vance will do what Mike Pence wouldn’t on Jan. 6: Bend over backward to enable Trump and his extreme MAGA agenda, even if it means breaking the law and no matter the harm to the American people," said Biden's campaign Chairwoman Jen O’Malley Dillon in a statement.
Trump has sought to distance himself from Project 2025 , a conservative plan from the Heritage Foundation that would vastly remake the federal government. But Democrats, who have spent weeks in turmoil over Biden's ability to lead the party, are hoping to change the national narrative to focus on Trump and Vance.
"Let’s see what Donald Trump’s VP candidate thinks of Donald Trump," the Biden War Room's X account said as it shared snippets of Vance previously slamming Trump.
The Democratic Party has long painted Trump as an extremist and is hoping to brand Vance in the same manner. But the near-assassination attempt against Trump on Saturday has tempered members across the political divide who have called for a cool down on violent rhetoric.
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Republicans, however, have embraced Vance as the next generation of the Trump movement.
"J.D. Vance is the future of the Republican Party, who understands the struggles of working Americans, particularly the forgotten men and women of the Midwest," said Ford O'Connell, a Florida-based GOP strategist who is attending the convention. "He's a veteran, and he's very smart and savvy. I mean, in a lot of ways, he compliments Donald Trump."
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