MILWAUKEE — The Trump campaign fired back after President Biden immediately took to social media to slam Trump’s new running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance.
Shortly after Vance was announced as Trump’s running mate, the Biden campaign Post to X “This is about JD Vance. He talks big words about working people. But now he and Trump are pushing for higher taxes on middle class families and more tax cuts for the wealthy,” he posted, along with a fundraising link.
Caroline Sunshine, deputy director of communications for Trump 2024, disputed the attack in an interview with Fox News Digital on Tuesday.
“Given what’s happened in this country, with the assassination attempt on President Trump, I think it’s really surreal and really in bad taste that a sitting president of the United States, rather than calling for anything other than unity, would use this opportunity to attack President Trump’s new running mate and attack him over policy,” Sunshine said.
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Former President Trump on Monday announced Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio as his running mate. (Getty Images)
Sunshine continued, “This statement makes it clear that Joe Biden is not the person who can unite this country.”
Democratic Party I didn’t waste any time In going after Vance, many have called the Ohio Republican an “extremist.”
“Trump selected far-right MAGA extremist J.D. Vance as his running mate. Vance has disowned the 2020 election, supported a nationwide abortion ban and voted against access to IVF,” said Biden-Harris HQ, the Democratic Party’s official 2024 campaign account. Post to X After the announcement.
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Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), President Trump’s nominee for vice president, arrives on the first day of the Republican National Convention at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on July 15, 2024. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Conservatives on social media, including Trump adviser Stephen Miller, Criticizing Biden How to run a campaign to pursue Vance.
“Biden HQ officials continue to make highly inflammatory statements less than two days after an assassin nearly killed President Trump,” Miller wrote. “Will no one succeed in getting them to tone it down?
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Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated J.D. Vance as his 2024 presidential running mate. (Getty Images)
“In America, we must remember that unity is right now the most difficult of all goals to achieve,” Biden said in a speech to the nation on Sunday. “Nothing is more important to us right now than unity. And we can achieve this.”
The Biden campaign pointed Fox News Digital to comments made by press secretary TJ Ducklo during a press conference on Monday: “President Biden and Vice President Harris have never shied away from disclosing their stakes in this election, and in our view, that is not inconsistent with the efforts they are leading to restore civility to our politics and unite our country.”
