Vice President Kamala Harris mentioned in a newly launched video that former President Trump chosen Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, as his operating mate to be a “rubber stamp” for the Republican White Home hopeful’s “excessive agenda.”
This comes forward of Vance’s acceptance speech on Wednesday on the Republican Nationwide Conference in Milwaukee. Trump, now formally the Republican nominee for president, introduced Vance as his choose for vp on Monday.
“Trump appeared for somebody he knew could be a rubber stamp for his excessive agenda,” Harris mentioned within the video.
“Make no mistake: JD Vance will probably be loyal solely to Trump, to not our nation,” she continued.
Harris and Vance spoke by cellphone after Vance’s nomination in a short and respectful dialog, Fox Information’ Alexis McAdams experiences, after Harris left a congratulatory voicemail.
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Harris additionally criticized Vance for saying in an interview with ABC Information earlier this 12 months that he wouldn’t have licensed the 2020 election till states submitted pro-Trump electors if he have been vp on the time, noting within the interview that he believes unsubstantiated claims of election fraud within the 2020 election.
“In contrast to Mike Pence, Vance mentioned he would have carried out Trump’s plan to overturn the 2020 election,” Harris mentioned.
The vp additional pointed to feedback Vance made throughout his 2022 Senate marketing campaign, when he mentioned he supported a nationwide abortion ban at 15 weeks, with some exceptions similar to defending the lifetime of the mom. Harris additionally cited in her video Vance’s vote final month towards a Democrat-led invoice to guard entry to in vitro fertilization, or IVF. The invoice was blocked by Republicans within the Senate.
“He helps a nationwide abortion ban and voted towards defending IVF,” Harris mentioned of Vance.
Harris additionally referenced Venture 2025, a controversial initiative organized by conservative suppose tank the Heritage Basis and that was authored by a variety of conservatives, together with some former Trump administration officers.
Venture 2025 presents right-wing coverage suggestions for Trump ought to he win the presidency, together with changing civil service workers with Trump loyalists, abolishing the Division of Schooling, criminalizing pornography, eliminating DEI packages, chopping funding for Medicaid and Medicare, rejecting abortion as well being care and infusing the federal government with Christian values.
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Trump has sought to distance himself from the initiative, which has been criticized as an authoritarian and Christian nationalist plan that may undermine civil liberties, saying he is aware of nothing about it and that components of it are “completely ridiculous and abysmal.”
“And if elected, [Vance] will assist implement the intense Venture 2025 plan for a second Trump time period, which might goal important packages like Head Begin and Medicare,” Harris mentioned. “However we aren’t going to let that occur.”