J.D. Vance on the Issues, From Abortion to the Middle East

Similar to Donald J. Trump, the Ohio senator has been dismissive of America’s imperialism abroad, he claims that increasing tariffs will result in employment elsewhere. 
 
J. D. Vance is the senator from Ohio and he recently became the even more ‘Trumpier’ running mate of Donald J. Trump. It was a shift both in style and substance: Now, on matters as varied as trade, and Ukraine, Mr. Vance is in sync with Mr. Trump. 
 
Here is what the senator has to say about the issues that will probably define the campaign season ahead and, if Trump and Vance triumph in November, their time in the White House. 
 
Abortion 
 
Mr. Vance has been against the rights to abortion/contraception, he believes that abortion should not be allowed even if a woman was raped or had an incest, but accepts its use if the mother is in a danger. He endorsed the decision of U. S Supreme Court in the case of Roe Vs Wade in which the Court put an end to the constitutional right to abortion. As he ran for Senate in 2022, a headline on the issues section of his campaign website read simply: Many people of the street do not seem to have a clear understanding of the countrys’ social policies which include; “Ban Abortion. ” 
 
 However, as to the question of the national ban on abortion, which is a question debated by Mr. Trump, Mr. Vance is against it stating that the matter should be decided on the state level. “Ohio will also desire different abortion laws compared to California, New York and I think it is only right,” he said in an interview with USA Today Network, October, 2022. 
 
Ukraine 
 
Mr. Vance has emerged one of the most ferocious critics of American support for Ukraine in the conflict with Russia. “I believe it is absurd that our attention is paid and our soldiers situated at this border in Ukraine,” he told the ex-White House and Trump media advisor Stephen K. Bannon. I find myself saying something, which I really wanted to delete at the last moment, to that caller, more or less, “I’ve got to be honest with you, I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other. 
 
He served as an opposition leader in the Senate, to resist a $60 billion military aid package for Ukraine unsuccessfully. He said in an opinion piece for The New York Times early this year that he voted against a similar package in the Senate and is still against pretty much any plan for the United States to carry on funding this war. “Thus, Mr. Biden has not explained fundamental logical issues: what Ukraine needs and how this assistance will affect the situation on the ground. 
 
Immigration 
 
Taking the opportunity of the 2022 campaign to the Senate in Ohio, Mr. Vance commenced with his adverts with themes of immigration. While most ads are written by consultants, Mr. Vance said he wrote this one himself: ‘Biden’s open border is killing Ohioans,’ he declares, staring into the lens. “More Illegal drugs and more Democrat voters kept on inflow to this country. ” 
 
On the issue of immigration, what Mr. Vance says is not very different from what Mr. Trump would want to say. He dreams of constructing the border wall and declared that he would “oppose every single effort to grant amnesty” to persons who arrived in this country unlawfully. That is why he supported what he referred to as the merit-based system of the immigrants who wish to live here. 
 
Mr. Vance notes that hired aliens have continued to vie for jobs with Americans, thus pushing for lower wages mainly in the state of Ohio. “If you cannot employ illegal migrants to clean your hotels, then you must go around some of the seven million prime-age American men who have dropped out of workforce and try to come up with a way of making them get back to work. ” 
 
Jan. 6 
 
In the Republican primary for his seat in Ohio, Mr. Vance said, “I think the election was stolen from Trump”, classifying him as a part of the election deniers. Mr. Vance negated Mr. Trump about the frustration that he incited the demonstrators who marched the Capitol on January 6, 2021. And he said that if he had been Mr. Trump’s vice president then, he would have yielded to Mr Trump’s pressure and decline the electors votes of several swing states that went to Mr. Biden in the 2020 election. 
 
He is equally incredulous that the odious former Vice President Pence who sprang into a stairway as insurgents paraded through the corridors was in peril because he declined to overturn, as the presiding officer of the Senate, the certification of Mr. Biden’s win. 
 
“If I’m not mistaken, politicians and people involved in politics have been known to blow things out of proportion from time to time,” he said on CNN. “Indeed, January 6 was a sad day, it was a riot, but let me enlighten you, Jan, nobody who listened to Trump was endangered because he instructed them to protest peacefully. ” 
 
Tariffs 
 
Mr. Vance has said he wants “broad-based tariffs, especially on goods coming in from the People’s Republic of China” because they jeopardized American jobs and business, he said. “We have to safeguard American industries from all that competition,” he said on the CBS’s Face the Nation show. 
 
In that regard, Mr. Vance is again quite consistent with Mr. Trump’s worldview where the latter has advocated for a tax increase of up to 10% across the board for goods imported into the country. It – Democrats and many economists have criticized that idea as inflammation. However, echoing such sentiments was not to the approval of others as Mr. Vance dismissed it as exaggerated. 
 
He said in the CBS interview that applying tariffs is like saying “we’re going to penalize you for using slave labor in China and importing that stuff in the United States. ” And, he added: “You create more of everything in America, in Pennsylvania, and Ohio and in Michigan. ” 
 
Climate 
 
Mr. Vance has claimed that there is no such thing as climate change and has also expressed doubt on global warming, which is now widely accepted to be push by human activity. “Well, it has been changing, as others noted it has been changing for thousands of years,” he said to the American Leadership Forum. Mr. Vance favors the oil and gas sector, dominant in the state he comes from, and openly stated that he does not like wind and solar energy, as well as electric cars.

Middle East 
 
Mr. Vance has been in support of Israel in the whole country’s war in Gaza defending the country’s policies during the war despite rising concerns on the civilian losses. 
 
Mr. Vance and other senators examining the bill on the delivery of military assistances to both Israel and Ukraine supported the legislation to send money to only Israel. As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said, it was time to finish off the Hamas and this posture was necessary after the group’s terror attack in Israel on October 7. 
 
“Israel has an achievable objective,” Mr. Vance included in a memo he gave to Senate Republicans before sharing the bill. “Ukraine does not. ” 
 
Mr. Vance accused the President Biden of holding back the dispatch of arms and ammunition to Israel with conflict increasing between the White House and Mr. Netanyahu’s administration. 
 
He admitted the losses of lives in Gaza — the civilian deaths — “our heart, certainly, goes to the civilian losses,” he said — but defended that such does not exonerate Hamas.