Hours after former President Donald Trump announced he Ohio Senator-elect JD Vance As a running mate, the Biden campaign was trying to draw attention to the senator’s position on abortioncalling him an “extremely anti-abortion politician” at a press conference.
“He is proudly anti-choice and wants to take women back decades. He supports a national abortion ban, criticizes exceptions for rape and incest victims, saying that ‘two wrongs don’t make a right’ and calling these circumstances ‘inconvenient,’” said President Biden’s campaign manager, Jen O’Malley Dillon.
O’Malley Dillon appeared to be referring to a radio interview Vance gave to Spectrum News 1 in Columbus, Ohio, in 2021.
“I “I think two wrongs don’t make a right. At the end of the day, we’re talking about an unborn baby,” he said. “The question is not whether a woman should be forced to carry a pregnancy to term. The question is whether a child should be allowed to live.”
Host Curtis Jackson asked Vance if there should be exceptions for rape or incest.
“I think two wrongs don’t right a wrong. At the end of the day, we’re talking about an unborn baby,” Vance said. “What kind of society do we want to have? A society that views unborn babies as an inconvenience that needs to be gotten rid of?”
The campaign also released a new ad, the first to mention Vance by name. In the spot, a young Kentucky woman, Hadley Duvall, describes being raped and impregnated at age 12 by her stepfather. Duvall said that when she found out she was pregnant, she knew she had options.
“If Roe v. Wade had been overturned, I wouldn’t have heard that, and I thought, is there anyone who isn’t hearing that now,” she said, adding, “Trump and J.D. Vance don’t care about women. They don’t care about girls in this situation.”
The campaign is making a seven-figure investment in its management, on programs including the WNBA All-Star Game, CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” “The Bachelor” and more.
Vice President Kamala Harris also criticized Vance over IVF in her first campaign appearance since announcing his selection as running mate.
“You see, this is a guy who – in the United States Senate – participated in blocking protections for IVF“This is an individual who has given every indication that he supports a national abortion ban,” Harris said Wednesday at a campaign stop in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Abortion was a winning question for Democrats in past elections since Roe falland with several referendum measures In several states in November, this could have a significant impact on the presidential election.
It’s a major theme of Mr. Biden’s re-election campaign. His campaign often blames former President Donald Trump for restrictive abortion bans in some states because he appointed to the Supreme Court justices who overturned federal abortion rights.
Vance, whose meteoric rise in politics began after his memoir,Hillbilly Elegy” became a best-selling book and film, has said he is 100 percent pro-life and that ending access to abortion is one of the issues highlighted on his campaign website. He has expressed support for a national abortion ban and in an audio clip shared by the Biden campaign on X, he is heard comparing slavery and abortion. The clip, however, did not include the full quote.
“There’s something comparable between abortion and slavery, and while the people who suffer the most are obviously the people who are subjected to it, I think it has a morally distorting effect on society as a whole,” Vance said in a 2022 interview.
In a 2022 debate with his Senate opponent, former Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan, Vance said he has always believed in reasonable exceptions for abortion.
Originally from Ohio, she was also a vocal opponent of the Buckeye State’s abortion rights bill. Number 1last November. When it was approved, Vance called it a “punch in the gut” and called for giving voters a “choice between restrictions on abortion very early in pregnancy with exceptions, or the pro-choice position, and the pro-life position has a chance to stand up for itself.”
For his part, Vance has accused Democrats of misrepresenting his views on abortion. And after securing the second spot on the Republican presidential ticket, he aligned his views on abortion with Trump’s recent public comments.
“I’m pro-life. I want to save as many babies as possible,” he told CBS News.Confronting the nation“And of course, I think it’s perfectly reasonable to say that late-term abortions should not happen, with some exceptions. But I think Trump’s approach here is trying to address a very difficult problem and really give the power to the American people to decide for themselves.”
As the Republican vice presidential candidate, Vance aligns his views with those of Trump.
“My view is that Donald Trump is the leader of the Republican Party and his views on abortion are going to be the views that dominate his party and move that party forward,” Vance said in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, his first “You have to believe in reasonable exceptions, because that’s where the American people are, and you have to let the states make that decision. Alabama is going to make a different decision than California.”
Vance did not respond to a request for comment. Trump’s campaign did not respond.
