By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-27 20:33:02 | Updated at 2024-09-30 17:26:01
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JD Vance, in 2020 messages, said Trump ‘thoroughly failed to deliver’
Washington Post ^ | 9/27/2024 @:00 | Peter Jamison
Posted on 09/27/2024 12:18:33 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
Vice-presidential nominee JD Vance has a go-to explanation for his evolution from outspoken critic to impassioned defender of Donald Trump: He says he was converted by Trump’s achievements in the White House...
“I’m sympathetic to the idea that there’s a lot of long-term economic damage being done. But it’s always draped in this bizarre desire to pretend the virus itself isn’t a problem,” he wrote in May 2020....
“Trump has just so thoroughly failed to deliver on his economic populism (excepting a disjointed China policy),” Vance wrote in February 2020.
In the direct messages — sent during Trump’s final year in office to an acquaintance over the social media platform then known as Twitter — Vance harshly criticized his future running mate’s record of governance and said Trump had not fulfilled his economic agenda....
Vance spokesman William Martin said Vance’s 2020 assessment of Trump’s failure to deliver on his economic policies was not meant as a criticism of the former president, but of “establishment Republicans who thwarted much of Trump’s populist economic agenda to increase tariffs and boost domestic manufacturing in Congress.”...
In another of the 2020 messages, he expressed openness to a holy grail of the progressive left: a government-run universal health-care system, or Medicare-for-all. In a February 2020 message Vance wrote that “M4A,” as he called it, “is maybe a net positive, maybe not (details matter).”...
Vance said he doubted that Trump’s richest donors would abandon him in 2020 because he had continued to serve their interests as president, despite his populist rhetoric....
In February 2020, he wrote to his acquaintance that he believed they were both working with the same long-term approach to achieve their political goals.
“You’re playing a strategic game,” Vance wrote, “the same as me.”
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Everyone knows that Vance claimed a conversion during the Trump Presidency, but his snide comments in 2020 undercut that contention.
I had to chop this article to meet the excerpt maximum, but nowhere does Vance or his spokesman deny that he messaged these remarks (in an exchange he initiated!)
1 posted on 09/27/2024 12:18:33 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
To: Miami Rebel
Gee Washington Compost, did you get that from the hacked docs that Iran sent ya
To: Miami Rebel
Don’t be a concern troll. Vance has repeatedly said again and again that he was wrong then.
More importantly his actions have given him the bona fides America needs.
3 posted on 09/27/2024 12:24:48 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Leaving Abortion up to the States is like Leaving Slavery up to the States.)
To: Sarah Barracuda
That was my concern. If so, they need to be prosecuted.
4 posted on 09/27/2024 12:28:11 PM PDT by Eli Kopter
To: Miami Rebel
the compost has convinced me
im voting for the kommie
5 posted on 09/27/2024 12:28:27 PM PDT by joshua c
To: Miami Rebel
So what. Kamala suggested Joe Biden was a racist and believed the woman who accused him of sexual assault.
6 posted on 09/27/2024 12:28:37 PM PDT by Toespi
To: Miami Rebel
The Washington Post teaming up with Iran is hilarious.
7 posted on 09/27/2024 12:30:55 PM PDT by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
To: Miami Rebel; P-Marlowe
Did you read the answer to this?
He was talking about the Republican House and Senate failing to support. That is the simple truth.
Remember McCain killing the Obamacare fix?
8 posted on 09/27/2024 12:31:57 PM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
To: Responsibility2nd
My recollection is that he said he came about this realization during the Trump Presidency, not after it.
9 posted on 09/27/2024 12:34:49 PM PDT by Miami Rebel (pro-)
To: Responsibility2nd
My recollection is that he said he came about this realization during the Trump Presidency, not after it.
10 posted on 09/27/2024 12:34:50 PM PDT by Miami Rebel (pro-)
To: Sarah Barracuda
That’s why I added that the Vance spokesman acknowledged the veracity of the report but tried spinning it.
11 posted on 09/27/2024 12:35:57 PM PDT by Miami Rebel (pro-)
To: Eli Kopter
This was from a Twitter exchange, not the Iranian hack.
12 posted on 09/27/2024 12:36:47 PM PDT by Miami Rebel (pro-)
To: xzins
That was the spin. At the time was making these remarks, he wasn’t blaming Capitol Hill Republicans.
13 posted on 09/27/2024 12:37:51 PM PDT by Miami Rebel (pro-)
To: Toespi
Indeed one can be sure Trump knows how the real issues is or he wouldn’t have selected J.D. Vance he’s a smart guy and understands how the democrats operate.
14 posted on 09/27/2024 12:51:48 PM PDT by Vaduz
To: Miami Rebel
Ill be honest….Trump delivered right up until covid. The policies and actions he took were driven by mass hysteria and untruthful experts. The CARES act and the shutdown were not good for the nation from the perspective of a republican imho.
15 posted on 09/27/2024 12:55:21 PM PDT by MrRelevant
To: Miami Rebel
>> I had to chop this article to meet the excerpt maximum
It should be chopped entirely, General Demoralization.
As should you and the entire cadre of concern trolls.
16 posted on 09/27/2024 12:57:39 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
To: Miami Rebel
FAIL! post.
17 posted on 09/27/2024 12:58:28 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
To: Miami Rebel
Pelosi and Schumer blocked everything after the 2018 midterms. WTH could he do by himself?
18 posted on 09/27/2024 1:04:01 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum)
To: Miami Rebel
I distinctly remember that after the debate wherein Kamala accused Biden of being a racist due to some bussing thing he supported in the past ... I don't remember the details anymore. But she went after him on racial grounds. Then when she was picked for VP Colbert questioned her on how could she run with a guy she called racist.
Kamala: "It's a DEBATE! Haw haw haw haw haw haw."
Colbert tried again.
Kamala: "It's a DEBATE! Haw haw haw haw haw."
Yes, it was weird. But it clearly showed that her Biden is a racist claim meant absolutely nothing to her. It was just something she flung in his face.
19 posted on 09/27/2024 1:10:44 PM PDT by Lizavetta
To: Miami Rebel
I don’t think so. I think his ideas were evolving. You could tell it in his 2022 campaign for the Senate. I’m from Ohio.
He voted for Trump, he says, in 2020, so, that’s an improvement over Evan McMullin in 2016. It’s obvious he was in the middle of reevaluation.
Also, it’s good to remember that he was just 36 in 2020 and will be 40 this August.
So, my guess is that Trump’s help in 2022 gave him insight that changed his thinking even more.
20 posted on 09/27/2024 1:23:05 PM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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