President Biden’s reelection campaign on Monday blasted former President Trump for choosing Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate, saying that the senator will enable the former president.
“Donald Trump picked J.D. Vance as his running mate because Vance will do what Mike Pence wouldn’t on January 6: bend over backwards to enable Trump and his extreme MAGA agenda, even if it means breaking the law and no matter the harm to the American people,” Biden campaign Chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a statement.
O’Malley Dillon argued that Vance will “make it his mission” to carry out Project 2025, which is the Heritage Foundation’s policy vision for another Trump term, noting Vance’s conservative stance on abortion rights and repeated denial of the 2020 election results.
Vance said in 2021 that “two wrongs don’t make a right” when asked whether abortion laws should allow for exceptions for rape and incest. Vance has said he would commit to accepting the upcoming election results if the results are “free and fair,” echoing the rhetoric of other Republicans who falsely claim the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.
“Billionaires and corporations are literally rooting for J.D. Vance: they know he and Trump will cut their taxes and send prices skyrocketing for everyone else,” O’Malley Dillon said.
The Biden campaign said it will make the case between the Biden-Harris ticket and the Trump-Vance ticket in the three and a half months ahead.
Republicans quickly rallied around Vance after Trump announced his pick Monday afternoon on Truth Social.
“I think it’s an incredible pick. I think he’s an incredible guy with an amazing story, both in business and in life, and I think it’s going to be an incredible person to help unify this country,” Donald Trump Jr. told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on the convention floor.
“I’ve seen him on TV, I’ve seen him prosecute the case against the Democrats. I think no one is more articulate than that, and I think his story, his background, really helps us a lot in the places you are going to need from the Electoral College standpoint,” Trump Jr. added.