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The Stench of JD Vance’s “No”

Since the 2024 VP debate, we’ve all watched JD Vance sidestep whether Trump lost the 2020 election. Most recently, Vance was asked five separate times in the same interview but refused a yes or no answer.

Anyone with an iota of intelligence understands that JD Vance knows Trump lost but was instructed never to say it. Trump won’t allow any of his people to utter the word “loser” when talking about him—he’s too fragile. So, like the good soldier, JD refused to answer, sidestepping more than Al Jolson and Fred Astaire in a game of dodgeball.

Yesterday, Vance got a message from his boss that sidestepping wasn’t cutting it and to fall in line with the election denial. So, when asked AGAIN if Trump lost the 2020 election, he said “No,” which we all know is complete bullshit.

How do we know it’s complete bullshit? Because it’s been almost 4 years since the votes for the 2020 election were tabulated, litigated, and re-tabulated, yielding the same result – an overwhelming victory in the popular vote and electoral college by Joe Biden, with no evidence of vote rigging or cheating, in what the lead Trump election official called the fairest election in a generation and in which Trump’s attorney general called Trump’s assertions of a stolen election “total bullshit.”

Zero evidence that Trump won.

If I were a reporter, I’d follow up with JD Vance and ask why he has refused to answer the question for the last several weeks. Why didn’t he say “No” the first time he was asked? Now that JD Vance has officially joined the Election Deniers club, I would press him to explain precisely why he thinks Trump won. What evidence does he have to come to his conclusion?

It was almost comical watching JD Vance refusing to answer the question about Trump’s 2020 loss because we all understood (to an extent) the Vance Dance – He didn’t want to piss off his boss by being honest, so, sidestep shuffle-shuffle, sidestep, no answer.” 

Embracing the lie is anything but comical because it shows us that JD Vance cannot be trusted with the most basic of things: facts, math, counting, and recounting.

If he denies something so clear and definitive, how can he be trusted to be truthful to the American people?

Everyone knows Donald Trump can’t be trusted—that if he loses AGAIN, he’ll refuse to accept the result. Some of us might have had an inkling of hope for Vance—that when faced with basic math that proved he and Trump came out on the short end of the election, he would man up and say, “We lost.” That hope is now gone with his one-word answer, “No,” and it’s the biggest reason to vote against this ticket.

Vance’s election denial is the latest example of the public humiliation by association that anyone close to Trump goes through. The cowardice of simply going along to get along will stick to Vance long after the stench of Trump fades.

Vote blue in 2024.

Reproductive Freedom and the Happenstance of Geography

I listened to JD Vance this morning on Meet the Press state forcefully that Donald Trump believes abortion is a state’s rights issue – not a federal issue. Vance went on to say he understands that California’s abortion laws will be different than Ohio’s – “and that’s OK.”

Either way, both Trump and Vance believe it’s appropriate for the state to decide what kinds of reproductive health options are available to women. So, suppose you’re a woman who happens to live in a state with a total abortion ban, and you’re a victim of rape. In that case, you have no right to terminate the pregnancy – and Republican lawmakers also want to criminalize crossing state lines to get an abortion.

In a Trump / Vance America, your geography determines whether or not you have rights around reproductive care.  

The Republican party used to be the party of limited government and individual freedom. That changed when religious groups became players in American politics, wielding influence by promising votes and converting religious lecterns into political pulpits. As soon as Republicans saw votes in those church pews, they began crafting legislation and policies catering to religious groups (so much for individual freedom and limited government).

Harris and Walz and the democratic party believe reproductive health decisions should always be up to the woman, regardless of the fate of geography.

If you care about individual freedom and don’t want to live in a country that says your state determines what women can and cannot do in terms of abortion care, then vote blue in November.