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The Ohio Senate Candidate Trump Endorsed Once Called Him “America’s Hitler”.

J.D. Vance made it clear how he really feels about the former President.

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readApr 19, 2022
Photo by Darren Halstead on Unsplash

At this point, discussions of the lengths Republicans are willing to go in order to attain power or remain relevant have been going on for so long it’s almost a cliche. And yet, leave it to craven members of the GOP to continue to up the ante and somehow still be able to surprise us. Just recently, screenshots of messages sent by Ohio Senate Candidate J.D. Vance garnered a lot of attention.

In an image tweeted out by Josh McLaurin, Vance wrote:

“But I’m not surprised by Trump’s rise, and I think the entire Party has only itself to blame. We are, whether we like it or not, the party of lower-income, lower-education white people, and I have been saying for a long time that we need to offer these people SOMETHING (and hell, maybe even expand our appeal to working class Black people in the process) or a demagogue would. Trump is the fruit of the party’s collective neglect. I…

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Lauren Elizabeth
Lauren Elizabeth

Written by Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx

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