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September 27, 2024
The Republican vice presidential nominee claimed that President Trump “completely failed to achieve economic populism” in 2020.
J.D. Vance speaks to a crowd during a rally at the Berks County Fairgrounds on September 21, 2024 in Leesport, Pennsylvania.
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When Democrat Tim Walz and Republican J.D. Vance took to the stage, Tuesday’s Vice Presidential DebateVance can be expected to praise his running mate, former President Donald Trump.
That’s what vice presidential candidates do.
Unfortunately for Trump and Vance, the Ohio senator’s praise of the former president will ring hollow.
The Republican vice presidential nominee is now on record as giving his boss an “F” grade on the signature economic issues that both Republicans say are important to them.
“Trump has completely failed to realize his economic populism (other than his disjointed China policy).” Vance wrote In February 2020, as then-President Trump was nearing the end of his term in the White House, he said this in a direct message to an acquaintance.
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Trump was elected in 2016 on a promise to make the U.S. economy work for working families. But his presidency has been the exact opposite of what he promised as a candidate. Instead, Trump focused his energies on serving the billionaire class. He supported massive tax cuts for the wealthy, filled top positions with corporate insiders and Wall Street crooks, refused to support efforts to organize workers, and faced challenges. It ignored efforts to keep factories open in areas where the Sean Fein, president of the United Auto Workers Union say“The bottom line is that Donald Trump doesn’t care about working class people. He showed that when he was president.”
Republicans have sought to push back against such criticism. But now there is a cache of previously unreported direct messages from Vance, the recipient of the messages. turned over to washington post–It turns out it wasn’t just Democrats, union leaders, and economists who broke President Trump’s record.
Mr. Vance, a billionaire venture capitalist who wrote a satirical book about his Appalachian roots, has long tried to portray himself as a champion of working-class Americans, much like Mr. Trump. Vance, who was once a harsh critic of Trump, suggesting the billionaire real estate developer was a “reprehensible” man who could be “America’s Hitler,” is pursuing a career in Republican politics. Once I started doing that, my attitude changed.
Suddenly enthusiastic Republicans claimed they had revised their views after being inspired by Trump’s inauguration. “I’ve been very open that I said those critical things and I regret that and I regret that I was wrong about that man.” Vance will signal in 2021he was making a bid for the Ohio U.S. Senate seat, which he ultimately won in 2022 with Trump’s support. “I think he was a good president, I think he made a lot of good decisions for people, and I think he withstood a lot of criticism.”
Now, it turns out that privately, Vance remained a critic of President Trump for almost the entirety of his term.
The Trump-Vance campaign is now claiming that the vice presidential candidate’s contradictory statements have been misinterpreted. But it would be hard to misread the senator from Ohio’s blunt assertion that President Trump has “completely failed to deliver on economic populism.”
The truth is, as revealed in his own words, that while Mr. Vance was trying to gain former President Trump’s support (an effort that ultimately paid off and ultimately led to him winning the presidential election), Mr. Trump was less impressed with Trump’s economic record than he had claimed. Republican 2024 ticket. In fact, direct messages post Vance apparently rejected the opportunity to join the Trump administration.
“I have already turned down the Emperor’s appointment,” wrote Vance, who referred to the former president as “Emperor Trump.”
Now, of course, Vance claims that Trump was a great emperor, or rather, a president.
And of course Vance is lying.
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