President Joe Biden‘s campaign attacked Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) on Monday after former President Donald Trump tapped the junior senator to be his running mate.
In a statement, Biden campaign Chairwoman Jen O’Malley Dillon claimed Trump selected Vance as his vice presidential nominee “because Vance will do what Mike Pence wouldn’t on Jan. 6: Bend over backward to enable Trump and his extreme MAGA agenda, even if it means breaking the law and no matter the harm to the American people.”
The Biden campaign had briefly paused its outgoing communications in the wake of the assassination attempt against Trump at his Saturday campaign rally, and Biden himself had called on people to “lower the temperature” surrounding the election in a nationally televised address Sunday evening.
“As Trump’s running mate, Vance will make it his mission to enact Trump’s Project 2025 agenda at the expense of American families. This is someone who supports banning abortion nationwide while criticizing exceptions for rape and incest survivors, railed against the Affordable Care Act, including its protections for millions with preexisting conditions, and has admitted he wouldn’t have certified the free and fair election in 2020,” O’Malley Dillon continued. “Billionaires and corporations are literally rooting for J.D. Vance: They know he and Trump will cut their taxes and send prices skyrocketing for everyone else.”
The Biden campaign additionally vowed to spend the remaining months of the election “making the case between the two starkly contrasting visions people will choose between at the ballot box this November: The Biden-Harris ticket who’s focused on uniting the country, creating opportunity for everyone, and lowering costs or Trump-Vance, whose harmful agenda will take away Americans’ rights, hurt the middle class, and make life more expensive, all while benefiting the ultra-rich and greedy corporations.”
“This is the most consequential election of our lifetimes, and with Donald Trump’s decision today to add J.D. Vance to the Republican ticket, the stakes of this election just got even higher,” Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison added in a separate statement. “Let’s be clear: A Trump-Vance ticket would undermine our democracy, our freedoms, and our future. There is so much on the line, and it’s more important than ever that we reelect President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris this November.”
O’Malley Dillon did reiterate to reporters on a conference call Monday evening that despite the political differences between the Biden and Trump campaigns, those differences must be settled through the democratic process, not violence.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), a top Biden campaign surrogate, told reporters on that same call that Vance winning Trump’s vice presidential pick “is great news for the wealthiest Americans and lousy news for everyone else.”
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Campaign surrogates on the call additionally attempted to tie Vance closely to Republican efforts to restrict abortion further nationwide.
“I think it really comes down to President Biden Vice President Harris being the ticket that is fighting to expand freedom,” Biden campaign spokesman TJ Ducklo stated. “Donald Trump and J.D. Vance want to live in a country where people have less freedom, and I think we feel good about that contrast.”