In a 2021 op-ed, Vance decried the decline of unions and bashed common-sense right-to-work laws that ban forced union membership. #OHSen Īnd let’s not forget Vance’s left-leaning views on forced union membership. Putting able-bodied, working-age Ohioans on a welfare program created for the elderly, blind, and disabled is legacy - and it's a policy supports so strongly, he lobbied against repealing Obamacare to save it. See also the first 3 grafs of reporting at 7/ While President Trump, a GOP Senate, and a GOP House tried to reach a consensus on Obamacare repeal, Vance attacked their efforts FROM THE LEFT: “Two big issues I saw with the AHCA bill as it was structured in the House were, first, that it cuts Medicaid without any alternatives, and, second, it seems to prioritize tax cuts, which may be good or bad, but which don’t seem to be the province of a healthcare bill,” he declared during a speech. Indeed, as Republicans were poised to vote on replacing Obamacare with their own American Health Care Act, Vance bashed the legislation, fearing cuts to Medicaid entitlements. Not only that, but Vance is a big proponent of Kasich’s failed Medicaid expansion in the state. Will DJT be duped into endorsing a guy whose campaign is run by the architect of Kasich '16? Is this what "Conservative Outsider" means? 12/12
It'll be a huge win for the 20-year Team insider who was the architect of Kasich '16 - and who now runs Vance's campaign.Īnd Vance's campaign spokeswoman? She's Chabria's VP at his Mercury office in Columbus: If Big Tech billionaire Peter Thiel suckers DJT into endorsing it won't just help Thiel remake the GOP in his own image. Vance advisor Jai Chabria is a longtime John Kasich flack with ties to Lincoln Project pervert John Weaver. Jason Hart has the receipts.įirst up, Vance’s ties to failed presidential candidate John “the mailman’s son” Kasich. The fence-mending is all fine and good, but Vance has deeper problems that Trump seems to have ignored or dismissed. In July, Vance issued something of a mea culpa on his prior criticism of Trump, telling Fox News, “Like a lot of people, I criticized Trump back in 2016 and I ask folks not to judge me based on what I said in 2016, because I’ve been very open about the fact that I did say those critical things and I regret them, and I regret being wrong about the guy.”įor his part, Trump acknowledged that Vance “may have said some not so great things about me in the past, but he gets it now, and I have seen that in spades.” When never-Trumper Matt Lewis interviewed Vance for his book several years back, he told the Daily Beast contributor that the reason he doesn’t support Trump “is because I think that is the most-raw expression of a massive finger pointed at other people” and that he gives the white working class “an excuse to not look inward to not ask tough questions about themselves and their communities.” God wants better of us.”Īfter Trump’s election, Vance, who had supported afterthought Evan McMullin for president, wrote: “In 4 years, I hope people remember that it was those of us who empathized with Trump’s voters who fought him most aggressively.” Because of this I find him reprehensible. In an October 2016 Tweet, Vance said, “Trump makes people I care about afraid. Vance: The Worst Option in Ohio’s Senate Race is the most likely to take out the weak, but dangerous, Democrat opponent - dangerous because they will have so much money to spend,” he added. “This is not an easy endorsement for me to make because I like and respect some of the other candidates in the race - they’ve said great things about ‘Trump’ and, like me, they love Ohio and love our country,” Trump added.Įarly voting is already underway in Ohio for the May 3 primary, with a number of candidates vying to be the GOP nominee in addition to Vance, including former state treasurer Josh Mandel former Ohio Republican Party Chair Jane Timken Ohio state senator and Cleveland Indians part-owner Matt Dolan and businessman Mike Gibbons. “I’ve studied this race closely and I think J.D. Nevertheless, Trump said in a statement, “In the Great State of Ohio, the candidate most qualified and ready to win in November is J.D.
“I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical a**hole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler.” “Trump is the fruit of the party’s collective neglect,” Vance opined. And playing like you actually give a damn about people while calling them low income and low education.ĭoes Trump know you called him America's Hitler? Sideways jackass. This you? Shame on you for feeding every despicable stereotype the Left pushes on the Right. PolitiBunny from our sister site Twitchy shared the whole ugly comment. Vance, the author of Hillbilly Elegy, which was later turned into a movie recalling his troubled childhood growing up in Appalachia, was a vocal Trump critic in 2016, even referring to him as “America’s Hitler.”