Southern California Democrats were quick to point out that former President Donald Trump’s pick for a running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, was once a harsh critic of the former president.
And Republicans, perhaps predictably, praised Vance as a choice for vice president after Trump made the announcement as the Republican National Convention got underway on Monday, July 15.
“Now’s the time to unite and elect the change we need to get our country back on track,” Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Corona, said, also offering congratulations to Vance.
Noting Vance’s once-fierce commentary of the former president, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Burbank, implied that Vance is joining the ticket “in the raw pursuit of power.”
“Having declared Trump unfit for office, he now joins the ticket, ready to advance all that he once deplored,” said Schiff, a candidate for U.S. Senate.
Vance, 39, who is the first millennial to join a major-party ticket, called Trump “a total fraud,” “a moral disaster” and even “America’s Hitler” when Trump first ran in 2016. The former president, who is running for another term in the White House, announced the Ohio senator as his running mate as the Republican National Convention got underway on Monday, July 15.
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State Sen. Dave Min, D-Irvine, who’s running for California’s open 47th congressional district, also alluded to Vance’s past rhetoric, saying he prefers presidential candidates “whose VP nominees don’t openly call them America’s Hitler.”
Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis posted a screenshot of Vance’s website where he outlines his stance on abortion — “I am 100 percent pro-life,” he said — and said Vance “wants a world where American women have fewer rights than they did 50 years ago, where they can’t make decisions about their own bodies, where their lives and futures are in the hands of politicians.”
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