There’s a lot of regret inside the Republican Party right now about the selection of Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance as its vice presidential nominee.
Vance’s favorability numbers, even after his stage-managed rollout at the Republican National Convention, are not good. He has made headlines for his history of derisive comments about women who don’t have children, his connections to the unpopular Project 2025 platform put together by Trump supporters at the Heritage Foundation think tank, his praise of Sandy Hook truther Alex Jones, his endorsement of a race-obsessed far-right writer who believes that the U.S. government should be replaced by a monarchy, and his past support for making abortion illegal nationwide.
It’s come up that he raised money for Jan. 6 rioters and promoted a book that claimed that Jan. 6 was a “hoax” and a “trap” created by federal agents to persecute Republicans.
In one incident that nicely sums up almost all Vance’s problems at once, he said on a podcast in 2022 that there needed to be a federal law that could prohibit liberal Jewish megadonor George Soros from paying to fly Black women to California to receive abortions.
