Vice President JD Vance had a blunt message for nervous Republicans on Wednesday: quit complaining and start winning. Asked at his Fraud Task Force press conference in Ohio about a hard-hitting Vivek Ramaswamy campaign ad that some Republicans criticized, Vance turned the question back to the stakes of the election.
“Whether the ad was appropriate or not is not really my concern,” Vance said. “What is my concern is who is going to govern the next generation of American government. Who is going to win the Senate race in the state of Ohio? Who’s going to win the governor’s race in the state of Ohio?”
“I have to admit that I’m a little bit disgusted when I see Republicans across the country who are whining more about that advertisement than they are about what the congressional Democrats and other Democrats want to do to the United States of America,” the Vice President said. He said Democrat Amy Acton is unfit to serve as governor and that Sherrod Brown should not be given “a 50th year in public service to ship American jobs overseas and to bring men into women’s sports.”
“The reason that Jon Husted should be a United States senator is because he’s the right man for the job and because Vivek should be the governor of Ohio, we should actually fight for these candidates,” Vance said. He reminded reporters of the attacks he and President Trump have faced: “Politics is a tough business.”
Then he delivered the line every Republican should hear before Nov. 3. “My message to my fellow elected Republicans is if you actually believe in the things you say you believe in, stop whining about an advertisement and go win the race in 13 days.” Earlier in the same press conference, Vance and Attorney General Todd Blanche announced $42 million in SNAP fraud uncovered in seven weeks.
