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J.D. Vance Says He Regrets Anti-Trump Tweets Amid Bid for Senate Seat
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- Author and venture capitalist J.D. Vance discussed his deleted anti-Trump tweets on Fox News on Monday.
- The Ohio Senate seat candidate said he regrets criticizing the former president.
- Vance previously visited Mar-a-Lago to seek Trump’s endorsement in the crowded GOP primary.
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The bestselling author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” J.D. Vance, addressed his anti-Trump history on Fox News on Monday, walking back his past criticism of the former president as the race for an open Ohio seat in the US Senate heats up among Republican hopefuls.
Vance announced his candidacy to fill retiring Ohio Sen. Rob Portman’s seat last week, mounting a populist-nationalist campaign in the spirit of former President Donald Trump.
But the venture capitalist, who has the support of conservative billionaire Peter Thiel and Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, now faces his first major controversy, after CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski last week retrieved several of Vance’s past tweets in which he criticized Trump.
Vance, who recently visited Mar-a-Lago in Florida to make a bid for Trump’s coveted primary endorsement, called the former president “reprehensible” for his treatment toward “Immigrants, Muslims, etc.” in the since-deleted tweets from 2016. He also said he would be voting not for Trump, but for independent Evan McMullin.
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On Monday, Vance addressed the tweets for the first time, telling Fox News’ Alicia Acuna that he regrets his former stance.
“Like a lot of people, I criticized Trump back in 2016,” he said. “And I ask folks not to judge me based on what I said in 2016, because I’ve been very open that I did say those critical things and I regret them, and I regret being wrong about the guy.”
“I think he was a good president,” Vance added. “I think he made a lot of good decisions for people, and I think he took a lot of flak.”
Vance, who once told Daily Best columnist Matt Lewis that Trump gave the white working class “an excuse to not look inward [and] to not ask tough questions about themselves and their communities,” has done a public about-face in regards to his feelings on the divisive former president since he first started exploring a run for Senate.
Vance said on Monday that he has faced criticism for standing up for Trump voters and their beliefs.
“I think that’s the most important thing, is not what you said five years ago, but whether you’re willing to stand up and take the heat and take the hits for actually defending the interests of the American people,” Vance said.
Vance’s opponents are already using the unveiled tweets as ammunition — a development he told Fox News he was anticipating.
Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio, who is also running for Portman’s Senate seat in 2022, tweeted on Thursday that he and Vance have “exactly one thing in common — neither of us voted for Donald Trump.”
Several Republicans and Democrats have already entered the Senate primary and the race is shaping up to be one of the most watched in the election cycle.
Big GOP Donors Seek to Funnel Money to Anti-Trump Republicans to Prise Party from His Grip
Republicans are looking to inject large donations into the campaigns of candidates and politicians who have stood against Donald Trump as they seek to pry the party from his grip amid an escalating GOP civil war.
Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming held a fundraising call with roughly 50 Republican donors on February 5 to discuss her 2022 re-election campaign after she joined House Democrats in voting to impeach Trump for inciting the Capitol riot.
Michael Epstein, a top Maryland GOP donor, told The Guardian that many donors on the call are expected to give the maximum amount of $5,800 to Cheney’s campaign to quash Trump’s effort to oust her. “We want to show a really big cycle for her to scare off competition,” he said. “We want people who make judgments based on what’s right.”
Trump’s loyal supporters and congressional allies have vowed to retaliate against congressional Republicans who supported Democratic efforts to impeach him for a second time, as well as those who stand against his political MAGA movement. In a fiery statement attacking Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday, Trump said “I will back primary rivals who espouse Making America Great Again and our policy of America First.”
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The GOP has devolved into a civil war between the Trump wing and the establishment wing impatient to end his influence on the party.
Despite his election loss to President Joe Biden, recent polling shows that the ex-president has managed to hold on to his base of supporters. According to the latest USA Today/Suffolk poll, 46 percent of Trump voters say they would leave the GOP to join the former president’s new movement if he creates one, while just 27 percent would remain.
Nikki Haley, the UN ambassador under the Trump administration, is planning to hold virtual fundraisers in early March for her Pac, called Stand for America, as she considers a possible 2024 presidential run.
According to the Guardian, dozens of big Republican donors are interested in Haley because she harshly criticized the former president during his Senate impeachment trial. Haley’s Pac is also expected to back Cheney’s campaign and other Republicans who have publicly stood against Trump.
The number of donors seeking to back anti-Trump campaigns shows the growing movement of Republicans desperate to hold onto the conservative base and fend off attacks from within by the MAGA crowd.
Trump has left the White House with virtually no public platform, but his grip on the Republican Party is still evident in allies such as Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert, as well as the latest group of Senate candidates, including Josh Mandel.
“I’m all in to advance the America First Trump Agenda and to oust [Representative] Anthony Gonzalez!” said Mandel after announcing his bid to replace Ohio Senator Rob Portman. “In Washington, I will pulverize the Uniparty—that cabal of Democrats and Republicans who sound the same and stand for nothing,”
McConnell has acknowledged that he could be on a collision course with the ex-president on his path to regain a majority in the Senate. “My goal is, in every way possible, to have nominees representing the Republican Party who can win in November,” he told Politico last Saturday. “Some of them may be people the former president likes. Some of them may not be. The only thing I care about is electability.”
Newsweek reached out to Trump representatives for comment.
Former Republican officials in talks to form center-right anti-Trump party: report
A contingent of former Republican officials are in talks to form a political party that would break away from supporters of former President TrumpDonald TrumpSchoen says Trump team will be ‘very well prepared’ after criticism Iowa Republicans seek to cut funding for schools with 1619 Project in curriculum Capitol rioter seen smoking in Rotunda arrested MORE, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
More than 120 people were on a call on the matter on Friday, including former government employees who worked under the Trump administration, the Reagan administration and both Bush White House’s as well as former GOP members of Congress.
Evan McMullin, former chief policy director for the House Republican Conference, told Reuters that he co-hosted the call with former officials who fear a large faction of the party is unwilling to stand up to Trump.
“Large portions of the Republican Party are radicalizing and threatening American democracy,” McMullin told Reuters. “The party needs to recommit to truth, reason and founding ideals or there clearly needs to be something new.”
The discussion included talk of both running candidates and supporting center-right candidates that are Republican, Democrat or independent.
Reuters reported that officials were dismayed that a significant contingent of Republicans still voted to overturn the election results hours after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. Most Republican senators have said they will not support convicting Trump on a charge of inciting an insurrection after his second impeachment trial, which is currently underway.
Jason Miller, who now serves as a Trump spokesman told Reuters in a response to the call: “These losers left the Republican Party when they voted for Joe Biden
