Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance said Tuesday that military recruitment would continue to suffer if Vice President Kamala Harris were elected in November, and offered advice to those considering joining the military if she ultimately becomes president: “You’re probably not going to want to sign up.”
“We really are on the brink of serious readiness issues, because nobody wants to put on a uniform and serve in Kamala Harris’s military,” Vance said on Fox News. “This is a person who wants the United States Army to be about gender inclusion, ridiculous diversity politics, instead of about serving your country, and uniting together as Americans to serve on the same team and defend your nation.”
Claiming Harris wants to “blunder” the US into “World War III,” Vance said, “Of course, it’s not her family that’s going to be fighting that war. It’s going to be working and middle-class kids across the state of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.”
“If you’re a person thinking about joining the military, you’re probably not going to want to sign up if Kamala Harris is the potential commander-in-chief,” Vance said.
Vance, who served four years in the Marines and served a tour in Iraq in 2005 as a combat correspondent, said the best solution to fixing military recruitment problems is to elect former president Donald Trump.
“People trust his leadership, they also know that a military, led by Donald Trump is about what unites us as Americans and it’s not about this ridiculous division of Kamala Harris,” Vance said.
The comments were in response to a question from Fox anchor Laura Ingraham about “woke leadership” potentially prompting the need for a military draft due to low military recruitment.
