Below is a list of everything negative J.D. Vance has said about Donald Trump. If I'm Kamala Harris, I'm having my team work up commercials that say things like "Donald Trump is unfit for office. But don't take our word for it. Take the word of his running mate, J.D. Vance." Or Donald Trump is America's Hitler. We didn't say that about him. His running mate did."
This is seriously some easy, easy shit to use.
“America’s Hitler”
In 2016, Vance sent a message to his law school roommate in which he wrote that he went “back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole…or that he’s America’s Hitler,” according to a screenshot shared by the former roommate in 2022.
A villain and a douche
In February 2016, Vance liked a tweet featuring a photo of Trump and O.J. Simpson that read, “Here is an old picture of one of USA’s most hated, villainous, douchey celebs. Also in picture: OJ Simpson.”
“Unfit” to be president
In an April 2016 op-ed for The New York Times, Vance wrote: “Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”
A total fraud
During a 2016 interview, Kentucky radio host Matt Jones told Vance: “I cannot stand Trump because I think he’s a fraud…I think he’s a total fraud that is exploiting these people.” Vance responded: “I do too…I don’t think he actually cares about folks.”
Stomach-churning, “noxious”
Speaking to NPR’s Terry Gross in August 2016, Vance said: “I think that I’m going to vote third party because I can’t stomach Trump. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.”
“Never Trump,” “never liked him”
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy. I never liked him,” Vance told Charlie Rose in October 2016.
“Reprehensible”
That same month, Vance wrote on Twitter: “Trump makes people I care about afraid. Immigrants, Muslims, etc. Because of this I find him reprehensible. God wants better of us.”
An “idiot”
“My God what an idiot,” Vance wrote on Twitter, also in 2016, in reference to Trump.
“A moral disaster”
In 2017, Vance sent a message to a friend from law school discussing his opposition to the American Health Care Act, the legislation Republicans want to replace Obamacare. Discussing a possible future career as a senator, Vance wrote: “Can you imagine running as an anti-AHCA populist who thinks Trump is a moral disaster. Where’s my constituency?”
Serial sexual assault
After the Access Hollywood tape came out, Vance liked a tweet that read, “Maybe the Central Park 5 could take out a full-page ad to condemn the coddling of thug real estate barons who commit serial sexual assault.” (Trump famously took out full-page ads in four New York City newspapers, calling for the death penalty to be adopted in the state, following the 1989 rape of a jogger in Central Park; he never directly name-checked the group of young men dubbed the Central Park Five, who were later exonerated, but many believe he was quite obviously referring to them.)