One Week Later: JD Vance Still Hasn’t Denounced Call for “Civil War”
July 29, 2024
Columbus, OH- It’s been one week since Ohio Republican George Lang threatened a “civil war” should Trump lose the 2024 election while introducing Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance at a rally in Middletown.
While Lang eventually “apologized” for his comments following widespread backlash, Ohioans still haven’t heard from their Senator about these divisive comments at a rally in his honor.
So today we’re asking JD Vance. Why haven’t you denounced Lang’s incendiary remarks?
Is it because you’ll fight to overturn the results of an election that doesn’t work in your favor? Or are you just afraid to anger the base that you spent most of your time in the Senate playing to?
This dangerous rhetoric is nothing new for Vance. Here’s more of his divisive remarks over his time in politics.
He claimed that he wouldn’t have certified the results of the 2020 election until states submitted slates of pro-Trump electors and suggested that Trump should ignore “illegitimate” Supreme Court rulings.
Vance suggested that people in violent marriages shouldn’t get divorced, and should be willing to stay in unhappy marriages for the sake of their children.
He blamed the country’s problems on the “childless left,” and doubled down by referring to Democratic women as “childless cat ladies with no direct stake in America.
“JD Vance owes Ohioans and the nation an explanation for his refusal to denounce George Lang’s threat of a Civil War if Donald Trump loses,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer. “This divisive rhetoric is consistent with Vance’s claim that he wouldn’t have certified the results of the 2020 election, that women should stay in violent marriages and that ‘childless cat ladies’ are to blame for problems in our country.”
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