J.D. Vance “Desperately” Attempts To Distance Himself From Past Trump Criticism
July 7, 2021
Columbus, OH — It’s been less than a week since J.D. Vance entered Ohio’s “crowded and nasty” GOP Senate primary and he’s already facing a barrage of brutal headlines. Vance spent the first days of his campaign on a desperate apology tour in an attempt to “disown” old anti-Trump tweets after facing “criticism that he flip-flopped on his support for Donald Trump.”
Vance’s grovelling is par for the course in the messy primary where Republican candidates have been stumbling all over themselves in desperate attempts to secure Donald Trump’s support rather than the support of Ohio voters. His primary rivals have been “quick to highlight their opponent’s past” and in a sign of more attacks to come, Vance warned that the other GOP candidates have “baggage of their own” related to Trump and other issues.
Take a look at what Ohioans are reading about Vance’s desperate attempts to rewrite history:
- Columbus Dispatch: ‘He proved me wrong’: Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance defends past comments on Trump “Other Republican candidates who are eager to secure Trump’s endorsement have been quick to highlight their opponent’s past.”
- WVXU: Analysis: Can J.D. Vance Take – And Pack – A Punch In Senate Race? “‘I don’t think J.D. Vance can take a punch.’”
- Vanity Fair: Sad: J.D. Vance Desperately Tries to Disown Anti-Trump Tweets “After J.D. Vance’s past criticism of Donald Trump began threatening his standing among conservatives last week, the Hillbilly Elegy author turned GOP Senate hopeful took to the former president’s favorite network to beg for forgiveness.”
- Washington Examiner: JD Vance apologizes for criticism of Trump, says he regrets ‘being wrong’
- The Hill: The Memo: ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ author binds himself to Trump after past criticism “Those comments have not been enough to quell the storm, however. Tuesday brought new attention to Vance’s record on Trump. There was a Vance column from USA Today in early 2016, in which he wrote that ‘Trump’s actual policy proposals, such as they are, range from immoral to absurd.’”
- Salon: J.D. Vance apologizes for calling Trump “reprehensible” and vowing not to vote for him
- CNN: Senate hopeful J.D. Vance apologizes for criticizing Trump as ‘reprehensible’ in deleted tweets “The knives were out for Vance. […] Last week, Ohio Republicans received anonymous text messages blasting Vance as a ‘Never Trumper.’ [c…] But national conservative movement…has already begun to weaponize Vance’s past statements against him. The Club for Growth’s political action committee, which endorsed Mandel in March, released a statement last week going after Vance.”
- Vice: Sycophant Elegy: JD Vance Grovels to Fox News for Ever Criticizing Trump
- The Guardian: Hillbilly Elegy author JD Vance sorry for since-deleted anti-Trump tweets
- POLITICO: J.D. Vance says he regrets since-deleted tweets criticizing Trump “J.D. Vance, the bestselling author and a Republican Senate hopeful, said on Monday that he regretted his since-deleted Twitter posts that criticized Donald Trump, amid accusations of flip-flopping as he vies for a seat in Ohio.”
- The Hill: JD Vance says he regrets past criticism of Trump
- Axios: J.D. Vance addresses deleted tweets slamming Trump: “I regret being wrong” “The venture capitalist and now-vocal Trump supporter has been accused of hypocrisy and ‘flip-flopping’ after CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski last week shared screenshots of the 2016 tweets in which Vance said the then-presidential candidate’s comments on ‘Immigrants, Muslims, etc.’ were ‘reprehensible.’”
- Vice: JD Vance Is Deleting All His Anti-Trump Tweets
- HuffPost: JD Vance’s Ohio Senate Campaign Gets Off To Awkward Start “CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski noted the many tweets Vance has deleted ― like one where he called former President Donald Trump ‘reprehensible’ ― so that Ohio Republicans won’t see them.”