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JD Vance
stated on January 22, 2026 a press conference

"Right now we're focused on Minneapolis because that's where we have the highest concentration of people who have violated our immigration laws."

By Amy Sherman • January 28, 2026

JD Vance
stated on November 13, 2025 an interview

Housing is expensive “because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants” and because of a housing shortage.

By Samantha Putterman • November 20, 2025

JD Vance
stated on October 15, 2025 an episode of The Charlie Kirk Show

"Political violence, it's just a statistical fact that it's a bigger problem on the left.”

By Amy Sherman • October 20, 2025

JD Vance
stated on September 28, 2025 en una entrevista

“Los demócratas están amenazando con cerrar todo el gobierno porque quieren dar cientos de miles de millones de dólares en beneficios de cuidado de salud a los inmigrantes ilegales”.

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 2, 2025

JD Vance
stated on September 28, 2025 an interview

“Democrats are threatening to shut down the entire government because they want to give hundreds of billions of dollars of health care benefits to illegal aliens.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 1, 2025

JD Vance
stated on August 24, 2025 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"

"If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."

By Louis Jacobson • August 26, 2025

JD Vance
stated on August 21, 2025 a speech in Peachtree City, Georgia

“We had the biggest tax cut for families that this country has ever seen.”

By Louis Jacobson • August 22, 2025

JD Vance
stated on April 1, 2025 a post on X

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia “was a convicted MS-13 gang member.”

By Louis Jacobson • April 2, 2025

JD Vance
stated on March 10, 2025 a speech

“Under the previous administration … the cost of a median-price home in America more than doubled, and that was just in four years.”

By Louis Jacobson • March 12, 2025

JD Vance
stated on January 12, 2025 a Fox News interview

“Some of these (California) reservoirs have been dry for 15, 20 years."

By Caleb McCullough • January 17, 2025

JD Vance
stated on September 17, 2024 comments made at a campaign rally

“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 country.”

By Sam Whitehead • October 23, 2024

JD Vance
stated on October 16, 2024 a campaign event

Says former President Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 election.

By Amy Sherman • October 17, 2024

JD Vance
stated on October 1, 2024 a debate

Says immigrants with temporary protections in Springfield, Ohio, are “illegal immigrants.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 3, 2024

JD Vance
stated on September 10, 2024 an interview

“Communicable diseases like HIV and TB (tuberculosis) have skyrocketed” after Haitian migrants came to Springfield, Ohio.

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • September 26, 2024

JD Vance
stated on September 15, 2024 a CNN interview

In Springfield, Ohio, “murders are up by 81%.”

By Madison Czopek • September 23, 2024

JD Vance
stated on September 15, 2024 a "Meet the Press" interview

Former President Donald Trump could have destroyed the Affordable Care Act, but “he chose to build upon (it)."

By Julie Appleby • September 20, 2024

JD Vance
stated on August 25, 2024 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"

A zero-tolerance policy during the Trump administration "led to less family separation than under Kamala Harris' border policies.”

By Amy Sherman • September 4, 2024

JD Vance
stated on August 25, 2024 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"

“Anything that you lose on the tariff from the perspective of the consumer, you gain in higher wages, so you're ultimately much better off.”

By Louis Jacobson • August 29, 2024

JD Vance
stated on August 7, 2024 a campaign event in Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a law that would “take children away from their parents if the parents don’t want to consent to sex changes.”

By Grace Abels, Loreben Tuquero • August 27, 2024

JD Vance
stated on August 16, 2024 a post on X

“Kamala Harris wants to give $25,000 to illegal aliens to buy American homes.”

By Madison Czopek • August 22, 2024

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