{"id":2295758,"date":"2024-07-16T03:37:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T07:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-praises-folk-hero-vance-as-democrats-warn-of-trump-clone-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T03:39:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T07:39:04","slug":"gop-praises-folk-hero-vance-as-democrats-warn-of-trump-clone-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-praises-folk-hero-vance-as-democrats-warn-of-trump-clone-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP praises \u2018folk hero\u2019 Vance as Democrats warn of Trump \u2018clone\u2019- Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-praises-folk-hero-vance-as-democrats-warn-of-trump-clone-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2295758&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses \u200bthe rise of Senator J.D. Vance as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-val-demings-planning-to-run-against-sen-rubio-in-florida\/\" title=\"REPORT: Val Demings Planning To Run Against Sen. Rubio In Florida\">potential running mate<\/a> for former President \u2062Donald \u200cTrump. Democrats argue \u2062that Vance is a clone of Trump, while Republicans praise\u200c his &#8220;America First&#8221; agenda and impoverished upbringing as a counterweight to Trump&#8217;s brand \u2062of conservatism. Vance&#8217;s memoir and previous criticism of Trump have \u2062led to a close alliance between the \u2063two,\u2064 with Trump choosing Vance \u2064as his running mate.\u200d Republicans believe Vance&#8217;s background could appeal to Midwestern voters and help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-to-head-to-wisconsin-ahead-of-states-pivotal-role-in-2024\/\" title=\"Biden to visit Wisconsin before crucial 2024 role\">secure swing states<\/a> in the \u200cupcoming election.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">\n<div class=\"tdb-search-form-inner\"><input class=\"tdb-head-search-form-input\" placeholder=\" \" type=\"text\" value name=\"s\" autocomplete=\"off\"><button class=\"wpb_button wpb_btn-inverse btn tdb-head-search-form-btn\" title=\"Search\" type=\"submit\"><span>Search<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">GOP praises \u2018folk hero\u2019 Vance as Democrats warn of Trump \u2018clone\u2019<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> <a class=\"tdb-author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/david-sivak\/\">David Sivak<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2024-07-16T03:15:00-04:00\">July 16, 2024 3:15 am<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1704031\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>MILWAUKEE \u2013 <\/strong>Republicans are leaning into Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jd-vance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">J.D. Vance\u2019s<\/a> (R-OH) rise-from-poverty backstory as Democrats attempt to reduce the senator to a carbon copy of former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the hours after Trump chose Vance as his running mate at the GOP\u2019s nominating convention in Milwaukee, President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a> retorted that he saw no difference between the two men, at least regarding policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a clone of Trump on the issues. A clone of Trump,\u201d Biden said on Monday shortly before boarding Air Force One.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have been claiming for months that Trump\u2019s running mate would be a MAGA lackey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3036235\/democrats-prepare-paint-trump-vp-pick-extreme-no-matter-who\/\">no matter who he picks<\/a>. The Biden campaign continued that line of attack in a Monday press call denouncing Vance\u2019s embrace of the former president\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-news-calls-2-7-billion-smartmatic-lawsuit-attack-on-first-amendment-moves-to-dismiss\/\" title=\"Fox News Calls .7 Billion Smartmatic Lawsuit Attack On First Amendment, Moves To Dismiss\">election fraud claims<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump picked J.D. Vance as his running mate because he will do what Mike Pence wouldn\u2019t on Jan. 6: bend over backwards to enable Trump and his extreme MAGA agenda, even if it means breaking the law, and certainly no matter the harm to the American people,\u201d said Biden campaign chairwoman Jen O\u2019Malley Dillon.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans readily acknowledge that of all the candidates Trump considered for vice president, he and Vance are the most aligned ideologically. Vance has emerged as one of the most consistent defenders of his \u201cAmerica First\u201d agenda since joining the Senate in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>But Republicans are betting Vance\u2019s upbringing \u2013 he grew up in a home marked by poverty and drug abuse \u2013 will serve as a counterweight that both humanizes him and puts a face and story behind Trump\u2019s brand of populist conservatism.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL), another Trump defender who arrived in Congress at the same time as Vance, described the adversity he overcame as an example of American exceptionalism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s the greatness of America, is that you can rise from a background like that, you know, it really says that your socioeconomic background doesn\u2019t define who you are,\u201d he told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that really is unique in this country,\u201d Mills added, relating it to his own upbringing in a broken home.<\/p>\n<p>Vance\u2019s childhood is not incidental to his meteoric rise in politics. His best-selling book, <em>Hillbilly Elegy<\/em>, spoke to the concerns of working-class Americans by chronicling his upbringing in the Rust Belt town of Middletown, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>He entered the national spotlight as a critic of Trump, but his political outlook eventually led the two to forge a close alliance that helped propel him to the Senate.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, appear during the Republican National Convention Monday, July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo\/Matt Rourke)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Vance was seen as the least helpful vice presidential hopeful in terms of diversifying his ticket. He represents a red state and appeals to the same base of voters that won Trump the White House in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Other contenders, such as Sens. Tim Scott (R-SC) or Marco Rubio (R-FL), could have helped Trump make further inroads with the black and Hispanic vote.<\/p>\n<p>The choice suggests Trump does not think he needs to expand his pool of supporters with Biden trailing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/series-of-recent-national-polls-released-its-big-for-trump-but-biden-wont-like-it\/\" title=\"New Polls Favor Trump, Biden Displeased\">swing state polling<\/a>. The president\u2019s deficit has only gotten worse since his disastrous debate performance against Trump last month.<\/p>\n<p>But Republicans argued Vance could still help Trump build further inroads with the Midwestern voters whose communities were decimated by the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think J.D. Vance speaks to the frustration of middle America, the hollowing out of middle America,\u201d said Ohio Treasurer Robert Sprague. \u201cBecause this is not just a story in Middletown. It\u2019s also the story of Ohio, like Dayton and Toledo. And Youngstown and Akron.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ohio is a relatively safe state for Trump. He won his last race there by 8 points. But Sprague suggested Vance\u2019s blue-collar background could help tip the scales in states like Pennsylvania, which Trump carried in 2016 before his narrow loss there in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans at the Milwaukee convention cited everything from Vance\u2019s relative youth \u2013 he would be the second youngest vice president ever \u2013 to his years spent in the Marines in praising Trump\u2019s choice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJ.D. is a bit of a folk hero, I think, to people in their 30s and 40s,\u201d Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) said of the younger Republicans who have embraced Trump\u2019s populism.<\/p>\n<p>However, Democrats believe the race will be won by lumping Vance in with the same narrative they have used against Trump.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In its press call, the Biden campaign claimed that Vance would \u201cenable\u201d Trump to enact the Heritage Foundation\u2019s Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for a second term that Trump has in recent days disavowed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump selecting J.D. Vance as his running mate underscores just how extreme and harmful a second term would be for Trump and his MAGA allies,\u201d the Biden campaign said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1704031\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1704031\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans are celebrating Senator J.D. Vance&#8217;s background of rising from poverty, while Democrats are warning that he is a clone of former President Donald Trump. Biden criticized Vance for being aligned with Trump on policy issues, and Democrats are claiming that Vance will enable Trump&#8217;s extreme agenda. Republicans believe Vance&#8217;s upbringing will humanize him and provide a counterbalance to Trump&#8217;s populist conservatism. Vance&#8217;s childhood and personal story have played a significant role in his political career, and he is seen as appealing to the same base of voters that supported Trump in 2016. Despite concerns about diversifying the ticket, Trump&#8217;s choice of Vance as his running mate suggests he is focused on appealing to Midwestern voters affected by job outsourcing. Republicans view Vance as a folk hero and believe he can help Trump make further inroads with middle America. Democrats, on the other hand, are framing Vance as a continuation of Trump&#8217;s harmful policies and extreme agenda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2651,"featured_media":2295759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/trump-vance-convention-vp-scaled-1024x682.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3685,6203,3634,15469,32076],"class_list":["post-2295758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-democrats","tag-gop","tag-trump","tag-vance","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/trump-vance-convention-vp-scaled-1024x682.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2651"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2295758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2295759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}