Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg knocked Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) on Friday, likening his journey becoming former President Donald Trump’s running mate to the path former Vice President Mike Pence took to be veep. “Behind the scenes, apparently, he’s actually calling him Hitler, right? Seriously. Five years later, the way he gets ahead is that he’s … Read more
“Abortion” was something of a dirty word at this year’s Republican National Convention, despite it being one of the biggest issues of the 2024 election and something the GOP has long fought to restrict. None of the convention’s speakers made it a central point of their speeches. Compare that to the 2020 RNC, when the … Read more
As he accepted the GOP’s vice presidential nomination on Wednesday, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) fondly recalled finding 19 loaded firearms stashed in apparently unsecured locations around his grandmother’s home after she died. The Republican National Convention crowd erupted in applause as Vance told the story, days after a shooter tried to assassinate the party’s presidential … Read more
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Wednesday suggested that former President Donald Trump’s choice of Ohio Sen. JD Vance as his 2024 running mate proves one thing. Namely, Republicans think they have the election in the bag. Maddow highlighted some of Vance’s extremist stances, such as his endorsement of a national abortion ban or his comment about … Read more
Stephen King issued a “Stranger Things”-themed reminder on X (formerly Twitter) about why Ohio Sen. JD Vance is now GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s running mate. The bestselling horror writer, who is a vocal critic of the former president, on Wednesday shared the “Robin Holding a Whiteboard” meme that emerged from the hit Netflix series. … Read more
MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Eight years after warning that Donald Trump might be “America’s Hitler,” Ohio Sen. JD Vance on Wednesday night nevertheless officially accepted the offer to serve as his right-hand man. But the man who addressed thousands of delegates on day three of the GOP convention couldn’t have sounded more different from the MAGA … Read more
Ohio Senator J.D. Vance introduced a bill during the 1st session of the 118th Congress that would, if passed, cost American taxpayers billions of dollars, run in the face of climate change, and would sell all of us out to the oil and gas industry. Vance, once a critic of Trump’s firebrand “America’s Hitler” image, … Read more
Boris Johnson was the subject of much mockery online Tuesday after he suggested that Donald Trump would support Ukraine and democracy. The former U.K. prime minister reportedly met with the U.S. presidential candidate amid the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. In a social media post about their discussion, Johnson said that Trump was “on top … Read more
Former President Donald Trump greeted right-wing media personality Tucker Carlson before he even shook hands with his vice-presidential pick, Sen. JD Vance (Ohio), at the Republican National Convention on Monday. Trump, wearing a white bandage over his right ear that was injured in the assassination attempt he suffered over the weekend at his rally in … Read more
Rachel Maddow described Sen. J.D. Vance’s history of comments about Donald Trump as “rich” now that he’s been selected as the former president’s running mate. The MSNBC host listed off points on the Ohio Republican’s résumé, noting that the “Hillbilly Elegy” author and former venture capitalist had never held any public office prior to his … Read more
