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X posts stated on August 14, 2024 in a post:

Photo from an Aug. 14 campaign event in Michigan shows “JD Vance couldn’t fill a small room.”

By Sara Swann• August 15, 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

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

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

JD Vance stated on October 26, 2022 in a tweet:

Rep. Tim Ryan “wanted to decriminalize fentanyl.”

By Amy Sherman• October 31, 2022

Facebook posts stated on May 28, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says it was "a crime for Nixon to wiretap the Democrats at Watergate but OK for Obama to wiretap Republicans at Trump Tower.”

By Bill McCarthy• May 21, 2020

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

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 September 15, 2024 in a CNN interview:

In Springfield, Ohio, “murders are up by 81%.”

By Madison Czopek• September 23, 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

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

Viral image stated on October 01, 2024 in a Threads post:

A Republican representative posted a response to the vice presidential debate before it happened.

By Ciara O'Rourke• October 9, 2024

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

Tim Ryan stated on November 01, 2022 in a town hall event:

“J.D. Vance said nothing about” the attack on Paul Pelosi.

By Jon Greenberg• November 3, 2022

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

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

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

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

Bloggers stated on October 09, 2016 in :

"As a 27 year old staff attorney for the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate investigation, Hillary Rodham was fired by her supervisor, lifelong Democrat Jerry Zeifman. When asked why Hillary Rodham was fired, Zeifman said in an interview, ‘Because she was a liar. She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer, she conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the Committee, and the rules of confidentiality.’"

By Ciara O'Rourke• October 22, 2018

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