Principles?
J.D. Vance, a Republican senator from Ohio, right, points toward Trump at a campaign rally on March 16 in Vandalia, Ohio. Trump named Vance as his pick for vice president this week.
Vice president nominee J.D. Vance opposes LGBTQ equality and reproductive rights DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer taffet@dallasvoice.com In 2016, JD Vance said Donald Trump “might be America’s Hitler.” He called Trump “noxious,” “arrogant,” “divisive” and “reprehensible.” He said, “I can’t stomach Trump,” adding he’s “leading the white working class to a very dark place.” He even called himself a “never Trumper,” declaring, “I never liked him.” But sometime between Trump’s first election campaign in 2016 and Vance’s own election campaign in 2022, Vance flipped, became an ardent Trump supporter and won his Senate seat with Trump’s endorsement.
Now he’s Trump’s running mate. Jeff Strater, former Stonewall Texas president and a Democratic national committeeman-elect, said, “J.D.
Vance is a significant danger to the LGBTQ community.” He added that Vance is controlled by Trump and poses “a grave threat to LGBTQ right.” “His history is rife with anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, smear campaigns and efforts to roll back federal protections,” Strater said, pointing out that it was Vance who proposed the Protect Children’s Innocence Act that would have limited transgender access to healthcare and turned some trans healthcare into a felony.
