The Daily Populous Wednesday July 17th, 2024 evening edition
Authored by newrepublic.com and submitted by Illuminated12

Audio we uncovered in 2021 of Vance promoting his book in 2016 saying he agreed Trump was a "total fraud" who doesn't care about regular people. pic.twitter.com/UoY7t2HdUt — Andy Kaczynski (@KFILE) July 16, 2024

Vance criticized Trump throughout his press tours at the time. “I’m definitely not gonna vote for Trump because I think that he’s projecting very complex problems onto simple villains,” Vance told CNN’s Jake Tapper before the 2016 election. “Trump makes people I care about afraid. Immigrants, Muslims, etc. Because of this I find him reprehensible. God wants better of us,” he wrote in October 2016.

Vance built his early political brand on being a “Never Trump” Republican, and the receipts show it. He called Trump a total fraud in public and asked if Trump may be “America’s Hitler” in private. Before the election, in a since-deleted tweet, Vance claimed he would be writing in Evan McMullin, a former CIA officer who ran as an independent. In 2018, he revealed that he did in fact vote for a third-party candidate in 2016.

lonebuck844 on July 17th, 2024 at 01:50 UTC »

He’s the perfect GOP politician. He’s perfectly willing to compromize Any moral or ethical stance in the pursuit of power.

errantv on July 17th, 2024 at 00:53 UTC »

> “I don’t think he actually cares about folks,” said Vance on The Matt Jones Podcast in August 2016. “I think I’m going to vote third party because I can’t stomach Trump. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place,” he told NPR that same month.

Really, really fantastic ad material to convince reluctant trump voters it's okay to stay home or vote for RFK

DeepShill on July 16th, 2024 at 23:34 UTC »

Thats funny that Trump's own VP pick hates his guts.