Timing is everything, and the Joe Biden campaign emphasized that with a press call just before Donald Trump's running mate was made official.
With the selection of JD Vance, a Senator from Ohio, being confirmed, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Biden's Campaign Manager and a Senator from Massachusetts offered warnings about the Buckeye State legislator being too radical and extreme for the executive branch.
"This is the most consequential election of our lifetimes, and with Donald Trump's decision today to add JD Vance to the Republican ticket, the stakes of this election just got even higher," remarked DNC Chair Jaime Harrison.
"JD Vance embodies MAGA — with an out-of-touch extreme agenda and plans to help Trump force his Project 2025 agenda on the American people. Vance has championed and enabled Trump's worst policies for years — from a national abortion ban, to whitewashing Jan. 6, to railing against Social Security and Medicare. Let's be clear: A Trump-Vance ticket would undermine our democracy, our freedoms, and our future."
Jen O'Malley Dillon offered similar warnings on behalf of the Biden campaign.
"Donald Trump picked JD Vance as his running mate because Vance will do what Mike Pence wouldn't on Jan. 6: bend over backwards to enable Trump and his extreme MAGA agenda, even if it means breaking the law and no matter the harm to the American people," she said.
Dillon also believes 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," she said, before promising her campaign would "spend every single day making the case between the two starkly contrasting visions Americans will choose between at the ballot box this November."
Elizabeth Warren, who serves with Vance, said the Vance pick was "great news" for capitalists and brought "no joy to working people."
Warren contended both Trump and Vance will make cuts to Social Security and Medicare that "bear down on seniors like an avalanche," and that both are also hostile to the Affordable Care Act.
"Elections are all about who the government works for," Warren said, contending that there is a vast difference between the Republicans and Democrats on relevant issues in this campaign.
Warren also predicted that in a debate, "the VP will take it to JD Vance."
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