Washington Post - Vance, a self-described Never-Trump Republican before Trump was elected,
has criticized the former president in the media and in private. In
leaked text messages in 2016 he said he saw the then-presidential
candidate as either cynical in a Nixonian way or “America’s Hitler.” He
told NPR he would vote for a third-party candidate that year because he
disagreed with Hillary Clinton’s policies but couldn’t “stomach” Trump,
whom he called “noxious” and “leading the White working class to a
very dark place.”
By the time Vance entered politics about five years later, he had flipped his stance on Trump. In the intervening years he has developed into an even stauncher supporter — including supporting the false claim that the 2020 election result was illegitimate. He told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in February that, unlike Mike Pence, he wouldn’t have certified the results. Vance
told Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview Monday night following
his announcement that Trump’s performance in office changed his views.
“I actually think it’s a good thing when you see somebody, you’re wrong
about him, you ought to admit the mistake and admit that you were
wrong,” he said
NY Times - Senator J.D. Vance, Republican of Ohio,
is a strong supporter of the oil and gas industry, opposes solar power
and electric vehicles, and has said climate change is not a threat.It wasn’t always that way.Mr.
Vance, a fierce critic of Mr. Trump before becoming one of his most
loyal MAGA supporters, also appears to have undergone an evolution on
the issue of climate change. As recently as 2020, Mr. Vance said in a speech at Ohio State University
that “we have a climate problem in our society.” He praised solar
energy and he called natural gas an improvement over dirtier forms of
energy, but not “the sort of thing that’s gonna take us to a clean
energy future.”Fast forward to 2022.
As Mr. Vance sought Mr. Trump’s endorsement for his bid for the Senate,
his positions on climate change took a sharp turn.
Huffington Post - Former President Donald Trump just announced his running mate,
JD Vance, a first-term senator from Ohio who has espoused anti-abortion
and anti-LGBTQ policies while in office. The 39-year-old
former venture capitalist, first made famous by his 2016 memoir,
“Hillbilly Elegy,” is known for his hard stance on abortion. He
campaigned against Ohio’s constitutional amendment to protect the right
to abortion last year, though voters ultimately approved it.But last year Vance also introduced a bill
in the Senate that would criminalize gender-affirming care for
transgender minors. Vance’s bill cobbles together numerous restrictions
on gender-affirming care, mirroring the language of state-level bills
that Republican-led legislatures have passed in the last three years.
Free Press -For some, Vance’s journey is simple enough to explain: it’s the story of a smart and ambitious “sellout”
and an “angry jerk,” as one of his (ex-) friends from law school put it
on X yesterday. To this crowd, Vance is only the most extreme example
of a familiar story of Republicans kowtowing to the man who took over
their party. But Vance is a much more complicated—and interesting—figure than that...In
the Senate, he hasn’t just voted with the GOP herd but teamed up with
Democrats on a range of bills that stake out new ideological territory
for Republicans. He makes some of Trump’s donors uncomfortable.He’s
also economically unorthodox—and more relaxed about government
involvement in the economy than many of his colleagues. He has backed a higher minimum wage and praised Lina Khan, Joe Biden’s FTC chair and a proponent of more robust antitrust policies.
- Abortion: Vance describes himself as “pro-life,” but during his 2022 Senate campaign said he would like the issue to be left to the states.
- Aid to Ukraine: Vance is one of the leading congressional Republican voices against U.S. aid to Ukraine. In an April op-ed, Vance wrote that he “remains opposed to virtually any proposal for the United States to continue funding this war.”
- Immigration: Vance has taken a hard line on immigration; he has often decried a "crisis" at the southern border and called for funding and constructing a border wall. Speaking on Fox News in June, Vance said he believes the U.S. should conduct "large-scale deportations."
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