{"id":126658,"date":"2022-04-15T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=126658"},"modified":"2022-04-15T20:30:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T20:30:08","slug":"j-d-vance-repeatedly-cited-racism-as-reason-trump-drew-so-much-support-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/politics\/j-d-vance-repeatedly-cited-racism-as-reason-trump-drew-so-much-support-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"J.D. Vance Repeatedly Cited Racism as Reason Trump Drew So Much Support in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s no secret that J.D. Vance, the Ohio Senate candidate Trump reportedly plans to endorse, wasn’t always a huge fan of the former president. His past objections to Trump went beyond what many remembered, however, according to new clips unearthed by CNN on Friday.<\/p>\n

Vance, who has been groveling for Trump’s endorsement for months, in 2016 said that racism and a lack of faith were the reasons why the soon-to-be president attracted so much support from white Americans. “There is definitely an element of Donald Trump’s support that has its basis in racism,” he said during a PBS Newshour<\/em> interview in September, adding in another interview that “race is definitely a part of the Trump phenomenon,” and, in another, that “some people who voted for Trump were racist and they voted for him for racist reasons.”<\/p>\n

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