{"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 <\/p>\n Vance also told WNYC that white, working-class Americans wouldn’t be lured by Trump if they attended church. “I think Trump provides that sense of community that many in the white working class would have, if they actually went to church,” he said in June. “I think if folks went to church a little bit more they may not be as excited or as attracted to the sort of social experience that Trump provides.”<\/p>\n CNN also pointed to an appearance on CNN during which Vance not only said that Trump attracted racists, but that Trump was openly hostile toward Black voters — and that this hostility is a strategy that’s governed Republican politics for decades. “It’s not just that Donald Trump doesn’t speak to issues of special concern of minority voters or Black voters, it’s that he seems to like actively antagonizing a lot of the Black voters,” Vance said on CNN in October 2016. “Unfortunately, that’s been the Republican Party strategy for 30 years. I say that as a Republican who wants the party to get more Black voters. And Trump seems to be taking that strategy just to the next level. It shows in the polls, right? He’s not going to do especially well on Election Day.”<\/p>\nRelated Stories<\/h4>\n
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