I served in the Trump administration for nearly four years. One year after President Biden was sworn in, I was surprised and disappointed that my former boss endorsed J.D. Vance in the Ohio Senate primaries.
FILE - Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, right, points toward Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally on March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohio. Vance sharply criticized Trump during the 2016 election cycle, before changing course and …I served in the Trump administration for nearly four years until Jan. 20, 2021. One year after President Biden was sworn in, I was surprised and disappointed that my former boss endorsed J.D. Vance in the Ohio Senate primaries.
“The president’s example offered something no other public figure could: hope … There were many personal heroes in my life … But I benefitted, too, from the example of a man whose public life showed that we need not be defeated by the domestic hardships of youth,” Mr. Vance wrote of Mr. Obama. He then called Republican criticism of the Democratic president “one of the great failures of recent political history” and said “part” of the opposition to Mr. Obama “comes from the color of his skin.
Mr. Vance inched across the victory line in 2022 despite being on the same ballot as a strong Republican governor in a crimson state. Despite this, his six-point lead still fell two points short of the eight point Ohio lead Mr. Trump garnered in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, and 19 points short of Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s 25-point lead.
Not only did Mr. Vance’s heartless comments reveal a dark side, it demonstrated poor judgment since Ohio has a significant Ukrainian population of 42,000. It proved that Mr. Vance thought it was more important to appease Mr. Bannon’s fanbase instead of respecting his potential constituency. That’s not the hallmark of a strategist or leader who can win elections, preside over the Senate, or step in as commander in chief.
When he was asked if such a move would “mean that non-parents don’t have as much of a voice as parents” and “that parents get a bigger say in how democracy functions,” Vance said yes.
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