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J.D. Vance

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“A significant part of Republican immigration policy centers on the possibility of deporting 12 million people (or ‘self-deporting’ them). Think about it: we conservatives (rightly) mistrust the government to efficiently administer business loans and regulate our food supply, yet we allegedly believe that it can deport millions of unregistered aliens. The notion fails to pass the laugh test. The same can be said for too much of the party’s platform.”
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Recorded in: Blog post written in 2012, deleted in 2016, quoted in "JD Vance got a former professor to delete a blog post Vance wrote in 2012 attacking GOP over anti-immigrant rhetoric" CNN (September 17, 2024)
“Republicans lose minority voters for simple and obvious reasons: their policy proposals are tired, unoriginal, or openly hostile to non-whites.”
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Recorded in: Blog post written in 2012, deleted in 2016, stored in Internet Archive: "A blueprint for the GOP" (November 15, 2012)
“I hate the police.”
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“Given the number of negative experiences I've had in the past few years, I can't imagine what a Black guy goes through.”
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Recorded in: Written in 2014 in an e-mail to his then close friend Sofia Nelson, identifying as transgender, quoted in "JD Vance's 'I Hate the Police' Remark Raises Eyebrows", Newsweek (July 27, 2024)
“I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler. How's that for discouraging?”
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Recorded in: From a screenshot (February 2016), as cited in "Vance wondered whether Trump was 'America’s Hitler,' says former roommate sharing screenshot", Ohio Capital Journal (April 19, 2022)
“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”
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“Anger about the wars isn't the only reason voters support Mr. Trump. But his willingness to say what other G.O.P. candidates won't reflects what people like most about him: his complete break with the party elite. Because the last time Republican voters put a member of that elite in the White House, he sent their children on a bloody misadventure.”
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Recorded in: Why Trump’s Antiwar Message Resonates with White America", The New York Times (April 4, 2016)
“Humans appear to have some need to look down on someone; there’s just a basic tribalistic impulse in all of us,” Vance recently told The American Conservative. “And if you’re an elite white professional, working-class whites are an easy target: You don’t have to feel guilty for being a racist or a xenophobe. By looking down on the hillbilly, you can get that high of self-righteousness and superiority without violating any of the moral norms of your own tribe.”
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Recorded in: according to Why ‘white trash’ Americans are flocking to Donald Trump (2016/07/30/)
“I think there's a chance, if I feel like Trump has a really good chance of winning, that I might have to hold my nose and vote for Hillary Clinton.”
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“I think that I'm going to vote third party because I can't stomach Trump. I think that he's noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place. And ultimately I just don't share Hillary Clinton's politics.”
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Recorded in: 'Hillbilly Elegy' Recalls A Childhood Where Poverty Was 'The Family Tradition'", NPR (August 17, 2016)
“Trump makes people I care about afraid. Immigrants, Muslims, etc. Because of this I find him reprehensible. God wants better of us.”
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Recorded in: Tweet (October 2016), as cited in "Senate hopeful J.D. Vance apologizes for criticizing Trump as 'reprehensible' in deleted tweets", CNN (July 6, 2021)
“Fellow Christians, everyone is watching us when we apologize for this man. Lord help us.”
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Recorded in: Tweet (October 2016), as cited in "Senate hopeful J.D. Vance apologizes for criticizing Trump as 'reprehensible' in deleted tweets", CNN (July 6, 2021)
“[On NPR, August 2016] I can't stomach Trump”
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“[Interviewed by Charlie Rose, October 2016] I'm a Never-Trump guy. I never liked him.”
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Recorded in: As cited by Amy B. Wang and Meryl Kornfield in "J.D. Vance’s journey from a 'Never Trump' guy to Trump’s VP pick", The Washington Post (July 15, 2024)
“I think this election is really having a negative effect especially on the white working class. What it’s doing is giving people an excuse to point the finger at someone else, point the finger at Mexican immigrants, or Chinese trade or the Democratic elites or whatever else.”
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Recorded in: Said in an interview in October 2016, cited in "JD Vance was once 'never Trump'. Now he's his running mate", BBC (July 16, 2024)
“My God what an idiot.”
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Recorded in: About Donald Trump, in a tweet in October 2016, cited in "‘My god what an idiot’: J.D. Vance gets whacked for past Trump comments", Politico (October 23, 2021)
“Trump's biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people and he encourages the worst in people.”
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Recorded in: Interview: "J.D. Vance on Why Life Might Get Worse for the White Working Class", Time (November 3, 2016)
“My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.”
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Recorded in: The Daily 202: Why the author of ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ is moving home to Ohio", The Washington Post (December 21, 2016)
“Donald Trump is frankly dangerous.”
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“My view is both that Trump is tapping into some racially ugly attitudes, but also that he is leading people to racially ugly attitudes.”
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“When people read Breitbart every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.”
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“I don’t think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban. I think that all you have to do is go back to the most recent Republican president and the way that George W. Bush encouraged us to think openly and supportively about our Muslim citizens. There is an element here where I think it’s not just that Trump is exploiting something but he’s also leading the white working class to a very dark place.”
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“I don't know what the answer is, precisely, but I know it starts when we stop blaming Obama or Bush or faceless companies and ask ourselves what we can do to make things better.”
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“The sad fact is that I couldn't do it without Usha. Even at my best, I'm a delayed explosion—I can be defused, but only with skill and precision. It's not just that I've learned to control myself but that Usha has learned how to manage me. Put two of me in the same home and you have a positively radioactive situation. It's no surprise that every single person in my family who has built a successful home—Aunt Wee, Lindsay, my cousin Gail—married someone from outside our little culture.”
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“At a pivotal time in my life, Barack Obama gave me hope that a boy who grew up like me could still achieve the most important of my dreams. For that, I'll miss him, and the example he set.”
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Recorded in: Opinion: "Barack Obama and Me", The New York Times (January 2, 2017)
“In 4 years, I hope people remember that it was those of us who empathized with Trump's voters who fought him the most aggressively.”
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Recorded in: Tweet (March 2017), as cited in "Senate hopeful J.D. Vance apologizes for criticizing Trump as 'reprehensible' in deleted tweets", CNN (July 6, 2021)
“I quickly realized that Trump's actual policy proposals, such as they are, range from immoral to absurd.”
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Recorded in: Trump speaks for those Bush betrayed", USA Today (February 16, 2018)
“Trump has just so thoroughly failed to deliver on his economic populism (excepting a disjointed China policy)”
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Recorded in: Tweeted in February 2020, quoted in "JD Vance said Trump ‘thoroughly failed to deliver’ his economic agenda in uncovered 2020 messages", Independent (September 27, 2024)
“The next time that we get power, whether it's...President Trump round two in 2024...I think the thing that we have to take away from the last ten years is that we really need to be really ruthless when it comes to the exercise of power.”
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Recorded in: On the Federalist Radio Hour (May 18, 2021), as cited in "Why J.D. Vance Is Thinking 'Very Seriously' About A Senate Bid". Event occurs from 25:31 to 25:39.
“And I ask folks not to judge me based on what I said in 2016, because I’ve been very open that I did say those critical things and I regret them, and I regret being wrong about the guy.”
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Recorded in: On Fox News (July 5, 2021), as cited in "Senate hopeful J.D. Vance apologizes for criticizing Trump as 'reprehensible' in deleted tweets", CNN (July 6, 2021)
“I think that what Trump should do, like if I was giving him one piece of advice, fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people, and when the courts - because you will get taken to court - and then when the courts stop you, stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did and say: the Chief Justice has made his ruling, now let him enforce it.”
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Recorded in: On Jack Murphy Live (September 17, 2021) as cited in "Republican J.D. Vance Confronted on Wanting to Fire 'Every Civil Servant'" Newsweek (February 5, 2024)
“If you're a journalist and you’re not asking questions about this case you should be ashamed of yourself.”
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Recorded in: Written about the Jeffrey Epstein case in a social media post on December 30, 2021, quoted in "Popular podcaster lobs barb at JD Vance over Epstein files" Politico (July 16, 2025)
“I think if any of us want to do the things that we want to do for our country and for the people who live in it, we have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country.”
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Recorded in: From his speech "The professors are the enemy", quoted in "JD Vance paid $70K by colleges he bashes as Senate candidate", AP News (April 21, 2022)
“Did you see me on FOX Primetime recently? I needed to speak DIRECTLY to patriots like you about the serious issue of radical childless leaders in this country. [...] We can’t have people who don't have a direct stake in this country making our most important decisions. We've allowed ourselves to be dominated by childless sociopaths - they're invested in NOTHING because they're not invested in this country's children. Fighting back won't be easy - our childless opponents have a lot of free time. That's why I need YOU to stand with me.”
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Recorded in: From a fundraising email (August 2021) for his Senate run, as cited in "It's not just 'cat ladies': JD Vance has a history of disparaging people without kids", CNN (July 30, 2024)
“I believe the devil is real and that he works terrible things in our society. That's a crazy conspiracy theory to a lot of very well-educated people in this country right now.”
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Recorded in: From a speech Vance gave at the Teneo Network conference. As cited by Kroll, Andy (June 16, 2024). "In Private Speech, J.D. Vance Said the 'Devil Is Real' and Praised Alex Jones as a Truth-Teller". ProPublica.
“[On his opposition to abortion in cases involving incest or rape] It's not whether a woman should be forced to bring a child to term, it's whether a child should be allowed to live, even though the circumstances of that child's birth are somehow inconvenient or a problem to the society.”
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“The question to me is really about the baby [...] We want women to have opportunities, we want women to have choices, but, above all, we want women and young boys in the womb to have a right to life.”
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Recorded in: In an interview on Spectrum News (Columbus, Ohio; September 22, 2021), as cited in "Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance argues against need for rape and incest exceptions in abortion laws", The Washington Post (September 2…
“This is one of the great tricks that I think the sexual revolution pulled on the American populace, which is the idea that like, "well, OK, these marriages were fundamentally, you know, they were maybe even violent, but certainly they were unhappy. And so getting rid of them and making it easier for people to shift spouses like they change their underwear, that’s going to make people happier in the long term.”
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“And maybe it worked out for the moms and dads, though I'm skeptical. But it really didn't work out for the kids of those marriages. [...] And that's what I think all of us should be honest about, is we've run this experiment in real time. And what we have is a lot of very, very real family dysfunction that's making our kids unhappy.”
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Recorded in: Speaking at Pacifica Christian High School, California (September 2021), as cited in "JD Vance Suggests People in ‘Violent’ Marriages Shouldn’t Get Divorced", Vice (July 25, 2022)
“There's something comparable between abortion and slavery [...] and that while the people who obviously suffer the most are those subjected to it, I think it has this morally distorting effect on the entire society.”
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Recorded in: On the Catholic Currents podcast (October 20, 2021), as cited in "Black state lawmakers take aim at Vance over comments likening abortion to slavery", Ohio Capital Journal (July 28, 2022)
“So much of what we want to accomplish, so much of what we want to do in this movement, in this country, I think are fundamentally dependent on going through a set of very hostile institutions, specifically the universities, which control the knowledge in our society, which control what we call truth and what we call falsity, that provides research that gives credibility to some of the most ridiculous ideas that exist in our country.”
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“The universities in our country are fundamentally corrupt and dedicated to deceit and lies, not to the truth.”
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“The simple fact is that our universities tell the powerful what they want to hear, and they couch it in ridiculous political rhetoric instead of dealing with the real consequences of progressive policy.”
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“Progressive politics, it’s not about uplifting minorities, it’s not about healing our planet, it’s not about looking after the poor. Progressive politics is a language, a language used by our new oligarchy to do two things: On the one hand to rob the American people blind, and on the second hand to tell them to shut the hell up about it if they dare complain. That is the purpose of American progressive politics.”
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“We are giving our children over to our enemies and it’s time we stop doing it.”
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“We have got to get out of the mindset that the only way to live a good life in this country, the only way for our children to succeed, is to go to a four-year university, where people will learn to hate their country and acquire a lot of debt in the process.”
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“The professors are the enemy.”
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Recorded in: Speech November 2, 2021: "J.D. Vance | The Universities are the Enemy | National Conservatism Conference II", National Conservatism (November 10, 2021)
“I don't really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another.”
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Recorded in: On Steve Bannon's War Room podcast (February 19, 2022), as cited in "GOP Senate candidate JD Vance said he doesn't 'really care what happens to Ukraine'", Business Insider (February 21, 2022)
“We didn't not serve in the Marine Corps to go and fight Vladimir Putin because he didn't believe in transgender rights [...] Which is what the U.S. State Department is saying is a major problem with Russia.”
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Recorded in: On Steve Bannon's War Room podcast (February 19, 2022), as cited in "Says Joe Biden risks war with Russia because Vladimir Putin doesn't 'believe in transgender rights'", Politifact (February 21, 2022)
“If your worldview tells you that it's bad for women to become mothers but liberating for them to work 90 hours a week in a cubicle at the New York Times or Goldman Sachs, you've been had.”
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Recorded in: Tweet (June 26, 2022), as cited in "From Yale to Newsmax, Usha Vance Has Helped J.D. Vance Chart His Path", The New York Times (November 1, 2022)