Hillary Clinton has criticized Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance for suggesting that families could ease the financial burden of child care by tapping grandparents for more help, saying that the Ohio senator is “just not in touch with what goes on in the lives and the working careers of the vast majority of Americans.
Despite digressions involving cats and a hiccup on abortion policy, Donald Trump has grown close to JD Vance, talking with him almost every day and cheering on his frequent TV appearances.
From attacks on “childless cat ladies” to claims of migrants devouring neighbors’ pets, Senator JD Vance is providing many Americans with their first glimpse of an ultra-online, aggressively combative generation of rabble-rousing conservatism.
Despite his staff learning that the cat-eating story wasn’t true on the day of his first post, Vance doubled down and kept going.
Since I started writing about J.D. Vance in 2022, I’ve repeatedly noticed his use of a certain rhetorical technique that I’ve come to think of as his trademark. He’ll claim vehemently to agree with one of Donald Trump’s various provocative or absurd claims—that the 2020 presidential election was stolen,
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A U.S. Senate panel on Thursday advanced four of President Joe Biden's judicial nominees, including one whose prior nomination to become Chicago's top federal prosecutor had been blocked by Republican vice presidential candidate Senator JD Vance in protest over former President Donald Trump's indictments.
A sudden ascension to a national political platform? A rapid transformation to attack dog? It’s nothing new to presidential campaign politics.
Vance has a law degree, and he likes to present things in terms of principles and philosophies. But the fancy talk is just a way of weaponizing his feelings, which are actually the ultimate arbiter of fact vs. falsehood and right vs. wrong.