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JD Vance

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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JD Vance
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."
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By Amy Sherman • January 28, 2026
JD Vance
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.
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By Samantha Putterman • November 20, 2025
JD Vance
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.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 20, 2025
JD Vance
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”.
False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 2, 2025
JD Vance
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.”
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 1, 2025
JD Vance
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."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 26, 2025
JD Vance
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.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 22, 2025
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on April 1, 2025 a post on X
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia “was a convicted MS-13 gang member.”
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By Louis Jacobson • April 2, 2025
JD Vance
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.”
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By Louis Jacobson • March 12, 2025
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on January 12, 2025 a Fox News interview
“Some of these (California) reservoirs have been dry for 15, 20 years."
Mostly False
By Caleb McCullough • January 17, 2025
JD Vance
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.”
False
By Sam Whitehead • October 23, 2024
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on October 16, 2024 a campaign event
Says former President Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 election.
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • October 17, 2024
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on October 1, 2024 a debate
Says immigrants with temporary protections in Springfield, Ohio, are “illegal immigrants.”
False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 3, 2024
JD Vance
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.
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • September 26, 2024
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on September 15, 2024 a CNN interview
In Springfield, Ohio, “murders are up by 81%.”
Mostly False
By Madison Czopek • September 23, 2024
JD Vance
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)."
False
By Julie Appleby • September 20, 2024
JD Vance
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.”
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By Amy Sherman • September 4, 2024
JD Vance
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.”
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By Louis Jacobson • August 29, 2024
JD Vance
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.”
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By Grace Abels, Loreben Tuquero • August 27, 2024
JD Vance
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.”
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By Madison Czopek • August 22, 2024
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Instagram posts
stated on October 14, 2024 an Instagram post
The Oregon secretary of state “removed” former President Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. JD Vance from “the official state website.”
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By Ciara O'Rourke • October 22, 2024
X posts
X posts
stated on August 28, 2024 an X post
C-SPAN captions for a JD Vance speech said, “Single person clapping.”
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By Ciara O'Rourke • August 30, 2024
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Viral image
stated on April 3, 2024 Biden FCC nominee withdrew in 2023, not 2024
President Joe Biden’s “FCC pick just withdrew after being humiliated by Senator J.D. Vance” in April.
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By Ciara O'Rourke • April 10, 2024
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on November 1, 2022 a town hall event
“J.D. Vance said nothing about” the attack on Paul Pelosi.
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By Jon Greenberg • November 3, 2022
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on July 19, 2022 an ad
Instead of fighting opioid addiction, a nonprofit founded by J.D. Vance paid his “top political adviser” and funded “political polling.”
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By Tom Kertscher • July 27, 2022
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on June 15, 2022 an ad
J.D. Vance "wants to defund law enforcement."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • June 30, 2022
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on May 10, 2022 an attack ad
“J.D. Vance profits off Russia propaganda.”
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • May 24, 2022
Club for Growth
Club for Growth
stated on April 26, 2022 an attack ad
Says J.D. Vance said, “People who voted for Trump voted for him for racist reasons.”
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By Jon Greenberg • April 28, 2022
Mike Gibbons
Mike Gibbons
stated on April 12, 2022 an ad
“J.D. Vance called for higher taxes.”
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By Tom Kertscher • April 22, 2022
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