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Search results for "JD Vance insists Trump never said he doesn't care about Americans"

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Donald Trump stated on October 31, 2024 in a social media post:
“I never mentioned” wanting to end the Affordable Care Act.
By Louis Jacobson• November 2, 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
JD Vance stated on September 17, 2024 in comments made at a campaign rally:
“We're bankrupting a lot of hospitals by forcing these hospitals to provide care for people who don't have the legal right to be in our country.”
By Sam Whitehead• October 23, 2024
JD Vance stated on September 15, 2024 in a "Meet the Press" interview:
Former President Donald Trump could have destroyed the Affordable Care Act, but “he chose to build upon (it)."
By Julie Appleby• September 20, 2024
Instagram posts stated on September 21, 2024 in a video:
Tim Walz said "we can't afford four more years" of Kamala Harris.
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu• September 24, 2024
Tim Walz stated on August 06, 2024 in a speech:
JD Vance “literally wrote the foreword for the architect of the Project 2025 agenda."
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu• August 14, 2024
Kamala Harris stated on July 27, 2024 in a post on X:
Video shows that “JD Vance endorses Project 2025.”
By Madison Czopek• July 31, 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
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
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
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
X posts stated on August 28, 2024 in an X post:
C-SPAN captions for a JD Vance speech said, “Single person clapping.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• 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
Facebook posts stated on November 02, 2024 in a photo:
Photo shows Donald Trump statement condemning the Peanut the squirrel’s euthanasia
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu• November 4, 2024
Instagram posts stated on October 14, 2024 in an Instagram post:
The Oregon secretary of state “removed” former President Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. JD Vance from “the official state website.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• October 22, 2024
JD Vance stated on September 15, 2024 in a CNN interview:
In Springfield, Ohio, “murders are up by 81%.”
By Madison Czopek• September 23, 2024
TikTok posts stated on January 24, 2025 in a video on TikTok:
“JD Vance is in North Carolina, and he’s found furnished apartments to put the people in that have been living in tents.”
By Madison Czopek• January 30, 2025
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
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

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‘They’re eating the pets:’ Trump, Vance earn PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year for claims about Haitians

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