People For's Markus Batchelor discusses Donald Trump's Vice Presidential pick in this article for The Grio.
Years before his embrace of Donald Trump, Vance argued the Republican presidential nominee’s rhetoric would cause white people to “become more racist over time.”
Though you would never know it today, before he was selected as Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate, J.D. Vance repeatedly called out Trump and the Republican Party’s politics of racism.
However, years later, the U.S. senator from Ohio emerged as a carbon copy of the former president based on his many views, including those about race. Critics who spoke with theGrio slammed Vance for his duplicity, noting that when it became politically expedient, he adopted the very ideologies of Trump he once denounced.
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Markus Batchelor, national political director at People For the American Way, said that despite his past critiques of Trump, Vance has “weaponized” the Great Replacement Theory, “championed anti-equity and inclusion legislation,” and accused Democrats of “usurping white votes with immigrant ones.”
“Those ideas are now the center of Project 2025 and the GOP platform approved this week in Milwaukee,” he added. “A Trump-Vance administration will do everything in their power — and expand their authority — to turn back the clock on race in our country.”
Batchelor continued, “The Trump-Vance agenda on immigration, abortion, public education, workers’ rights, voting rights, and many other issues will have the most negative impact on Black and brown Americans.”
