JD Vance
JD Vance is vice president of the United States. President Donald Trump tapped him as a running mate July 15, 2024. Vance won the U.S. Senate race in Ohio in 2022. He worked as an investor, commentator and author of the bestselling 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy.”
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Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia “was a convicted MS-13 gang member.”
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“Under the previous administration … the cost of a median-price home in America more than doubled, and that was just in four years.”
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“Some of these (California) reservoirs have been dry for 15, 20 years."
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“We're bankrupting a lot of hospitals by forcing these hospitals to provide care for people who don't have the legal right to be in our…
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Says former President Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 election.
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Says immigrants with temporary protections in Springfield, Ohio, are “illegal immigrants.”
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“Communicable diseases like HIV and TB (tuberculosis) have skyrocketed” after Haitian migrants came to Springfield, Ohio.
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In Springfield, Ohio, “murders are up by 81%.”
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Former President Donald Trump could have destroyed the Affordable Care Act, but “he chose to build upon (it)."
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A zero-tolerance policy during the Trump administration "led to less family separation than under Kamala Harris' border policies.”