When President Trump chose Republican Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate, it revealed a major weakness that the left had tried to ignore.
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg is a former mayor who has accomplished little beyond meeting the Biden administration’s DEI quotas. Attacked Vance is the kind of person who will say anything to get ahead.
“When I got to Harvard, I realized there were a lot of people like him who would say anything to get ahead. Five years ago, he looked like an anti-Trump Republican. So that's what he was…Five years later, the way he gets ahead is [Trump’s] “Buttigieg is the greatest man since bread,” he told HBO's Bill Maher.
I forgot how eloquent Buttigieg was!He totally trounced JD Vance here.Where was Pete all this time?
— Steve Houf (@stevehouf) July 20, 2024
But all of this is a distraction from the obvious terror that Vance brings to the race: He is a voice for blue-collar workers, a huge voting bloc that Democrats have long forgotten. ('Faceplant': KJP holds clinic on best way to prove conspiracies are true)
Vance wasn't born into wealth. Family struggle “He's one of many low-income families struggling with addiction and financial hardship due to the slow economic growth of his hometown. He has ties to both Appalachia and Ohio. He escaped a tough upbringing by joining the military, graduating from Yale Law School, and making his fortune in Silicon Valley. He never forgot the people of his hometown, and he returned and worked to build a better life for them.”
He's a nightmare for a party whose policies have abandoned the middle class and destroyed their ability to get a good-paying job. Talking to these voters every day of the campaign is a disaster for them. Trump was already good at addressing the plight of working-class voters, and Vance is one of them. He doesn't just empathize with their plight; he understands it because he's lived it. LUKE: Battleground state candidates lay out clear plan for Republicans to end Kamala's momentum
While Vice President Kamala Harris is garnering support from Hollywood degenerates, Vance will appeal to what was once the Democratic base. Hillary Clinton lost to Trump in 2016 because she showed contempt for working-class voters, but it resulted in a record number of middle-class Americans voting for the Republican Party. Vance should send shivers down Democrats' spine in November by helping them win over Rust Belt voters.
