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Kamala Harris stated on July 17, 2024 in a campaign video:

"Unlike Mike Pence, (JD) Vance said he would have carried out Trump's plan to overturn the 2020 election."

By Amy Sherman• July 18, 2024

Pete Buttigieg stated on August 11, 2024 in CNN's State of the Union:

JD Vance holds “anti-marriage-equality views.”

By Grace Abels• August 16, 2024

JD Vance stated on October 16, 2024 in a campaign event:

Says former President Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 election.

By Amy Sherman• October 17, 2024

X posts stated on March 23, 2025 in a post:

Video shows “leaked audio” of Vice President JD Vance criticizing Elon Musk and saying “he's making us look bad.”

By Grace Abels• March 24, 2025

Mike Gibbons stated on April 12, 2022 in an ad:

“J.D. Vance called for higher taxes.”

By Tom Kertscher• April 22, 2022

Threads posts stated on July 23, 2024 in a post:

Usha Vance, wife of Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance, posted on X that Vice President Kamala Harris was “absolutely a DEI hire.”

By Sara Swann• July 24, 2024

JD Vance stated on August 07, 2024 in a news conference:

Says Tim Walz said he carried weapons in war, but “he has not spent a day in a combat zone.”

By Jeff Cercone• August 12, 2024

JD Vance stated on January 22, 2026 in a press conference:

"Right now we're focused on Minneapolis because that's where we have the highest concentration of people who have violated our immigration laws."

By Amy Sherman• January 28, 2026

JD Vance stated on August 25, 2024 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

A zero-tolerance policy during the Trump administration "led to less family separation than under Kamala Harris' border policies.”

By Amy Sherman• September 4, 2024

JD Vance stated on July 28, 2024 in an interview:

Vice President Kamala Harris is “calling for an end to the child tax credit.”

By Samantha Putterman• July 30, 2024

Elizabeth Warren stated on August 25, 2024 in an interview:

“JD Vance actually sent a letter last year to the Department of Justice saying, ‘enforce the Comstock Act.’”

By Samantha Putterman• August 30, 2024

Social Media stated on September 21, 2024 in a video:

Sen. JD Vance admitted he has a ‘rent-a-dog’ from the Trump campaign to make him “seem like a dog person.”

By Samantha Putterman• September 22, 2024

Donald Trump stated on September 18, 2024 in a speech in New York:

When Haitians go to school in Springfield, Ohio, they “take the place of our children in school” and “each one will have a private interpreter."

By Amy Sherman• September 23, 2024

Facebook posts stated on September 25, 2024 in a Facebook post:

“Elon Musk silences Taylor Swift: Shocking ban wipes out 1 million followers and costs her a staggering $72 million!”

By Ciara O'Rourke• September 27, 2024

JD Vance stated on September 28, 2025 in an interview:

“Democrats are threatening to shut down the entire government because they want to give hundreds of billions of dollars of health care benefits to illegal aliens.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• October 1, 2025

Tim Ryan stated on July 19, 2022 in an ad:

Instead of fighting opioid addiction, a nonprofit founded by J.D. Vance paid his “top political adviser” and funded “political polling.”

By Tom Kertscher• July 27, 2022

Elon Musk stated on February 26, 2024 in an X post:

Democrats don’t deport undocumented migrants “because every illegal is a highly likely vote at some point.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman• March 6, 2024

Club for Growth stated on April 26, 2022 in an attack ad:

Says J.D. Vance said, “People who voted for Trump voted for him for racist reasons.”

By Jon Greenberg• April 28, 2022

Tim Ryan stated on June 15, 2022 in an ad:

J.D. Vance "wants to defund law enforcement."

By Tom Kertscher• June 30, 2022

Tomi Lahren stated on July 25, 2022 in a tweet:

“Biden wants to give illegals ID cards so they can start collecting American benefits.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• August 5, 2022

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