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WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President-elect JD Vance says those answerable for violence in the course of the Capitol riot “obviously” mustn’t be pardoned, as President-elect Donald Trump vows to make use of his clemency powers on behalf of a lot of those trying have on January 6, 2021 to overturn the outcomes of the election, which Trump lost.

Vance insisted in an interview on “Fox News Sunday” that the pardon issue was “very simple,” saying those that “protested peacefully” must be pardoned and “if you committed violence that day, of course you should.” not be pardoned.” He later said there was a “bit of a gray area” in some cases.

Trump said he would pardon rioters on “day one” of his presidency, which begins Jan. 20. “Most likely I will do it very quickly,” he said recently on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” He added: “These people have suffered long and hard. And there may be some exceptions. I have to look. But you know, if someone was radical, they would be crazy.”

More than 1,500 people have been charged with federal crimes in reference to the siege, which injured greater than 100 cops and compelled lawmakers into hiding as they met to certify Democrat Joe Biden's 2020 victory.

Hundreds of people that didn’t take part in destruction or violence were charged only with misdemeanor charges of illegally entering the Capitol. Others were charged with crimes including assault for beating cops. Leaders of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys extremist groups were convicted of seditious conspiracy after prosecutors tried to make use of force to stop the peaceful transfer of power from Republican incumbent Trump to Biden.

In a post on X, Vance responded to criticism from supporters of the Capitol rioters that his position didn’t go far enough to release all those convicted. “I’ve been defending these guys for years,” he said.

“For the president to say he will look at every single case (and for me to say the same thing) is not a step backwards,” Vance said. “I assure you, we care about people who are unjustly incarcerated. Yes, that includes those who were provoked, and that includes those who received a trash trial.”

Originally published: January 12, 2025 at 10:35 am PST

(CNN) — Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance suggested in an interview with podcast host Joe Rogan that aired Thursday that upper- and middle-class white children are incentivized to discover as transgender in an effort to gain entry to elite colleges.

“Think about the incentives,” Vance said. “If you're a middle-class or upper-middle-class white parent and all you care about is whether your child goes to Harvard or Yale, of course that path has become much more difficult for many of upper-middle-class children, but the “The only way these people can participate in the DEI bureaucracy in this country is by being trans, and is there a dynamic where if you become trans, that is the way to reject white privilege.”

“That’s the social signifier. The only option available in the hyper-woke mindset is to become gender neutral,” the Ohio senator added.

Studies I discovered this due to discriminationharassment and lack of support they often experience In earlier grades, students who discover as transgender can be much less prone to have access to higher education usually, let alone an Ivy League school, in comparison with students who discover as gender-conforming to attain is that they were assigned at birth.

Describing a friend as a “gay Reagan Democrat” who rejects the ideology of progressive politicians, Vance said he believed the Trump-Vance ticket could herald what he called a “normal gay vote.”

“Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if me and Trump just won the normal gay election because they just wanted to be left alone,” Vance said.

Vance also described a conversation he had during a congressional delegation trip to the Paris Air Show with a “very conservative” woman from Mississippi about how, in her opinion, Paris was more conservative than some cities within the United States, and the way she viewed a person's genitals had seen in a miniskirt.

“Oh my God, that’s not empowerment. Lifestyle choices are not respected. “We’re letting a grown man walk around in a miniskirt in broad daylight,” Vance said. “If you do that, you’re a pervert. And I want all of us to say, whatever your political persuasion, just say, 'No, that's weird, isn't it?' “You can't walk down the street in the middle of the biggest city in the world or America flashing kids let it go,” Vance said.

Vance also said he believes most Americans are open-minded about what he called “lifestyle selections” but about transgender people Athletes participating in competitions In women's sports you cross a line.

Per week after President Barack Obama’s re-election in November 2012, JD Vance, then a law student at Yale, said wrote a devastating rebuke the Republican Party’s attitude towards immigrants and minorities, criticising it for its “open hostility towards non-whites” and for the alienation of “blacks, Latinos, [and] the youth.”

Four years later, as Vance considered a career in GOP politics, he asked a former college professor to take down the article. That professor, Brad Nelson, had taught Vance at Ohio State University when he was an undergraduate. After graduating, Nelson asked him to contribute to a blog he ran for the nonpartisan Center for World Conflict and Peace.

Nelson told CNN that he agreed to delete the article at Vance's request during the 2016 Republican primary so that Vance could more easily get a job in Republican politics. However, the article, titled “A Blueprint for the GOP,” remains available on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

“A key part of Republican immigration policy revolves around the ability to deport 12 million people (or deport themselves),” Vance wrote. “Think about it: We conservatives (rightly) distrust the government when it comes to efficiently managing corporate loans and regulating our food supply, and yet we supposedly believe it can deport millions of undocumented aliens. That notion is simply ridiculous. The same is true of too many parts of the party platform.”

Twelve years later, as former President Donald Trump’s vice presidential candidate, Vance espouses many of the same anti-immigration sentiments he criticized as a 28-year-old law student in 2012. In recent days, Vance has increased without reason Claims against Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio.

But asked on Sunday Regarding his previous criticism of Trump's stance on immigration, Vance argued that Trump's rhetoric on immigration was actually the reason he turned from a Trump critic to a Trump supporter.

“The reason I changed my mind about Donald Trump is made clear by what happened in Springfield,” Vance said. “The media and the Kamala Harris campaign have been calling the people of Springfield racists and lying about them. They've said they made up these reports about migrants eating geese, and they're completely ignoring the health catastrophe that's unfolding in Springfield right now. You know who hasn't ignored that? Donald Trump.”

Will Martin, a spokesman for Vance, told CNN that Vance has long supported tough border security measures, including deportations, and now has one of the most conservative voting records in the Senate. He said his views on deportations have changed since the time of the blog post.

“There is nothing strange about the fact that Senator Vance's views on certain issues have changed since his twenties, like those of millions of Americans,” Martin said in an email to CNN.

Vance’s previous anti-Trump rhetoric is well known, as he was a vocal critic the former president during much of Trump's first year in office. And although Vance defended many of his supporters, he wrote on Facebook in 2016: “There are undoubtedly vile racists at the core of Trump's movement.”

Nelson, who was very positive about Vance in messages to CNN and called him one of his brightest students, said Vance's post “caused some excitement among some campaign teams that Vance had considered working for.”

“I was a little surprised at the backlash he apparently received from the GOP, as I thought his post was pretty innocuous,” Nelson told CNN. “Anyway, I liked JD and wanted to help him, so I deleted his post.”

“He gave no indication that his opinion on the issues he wrote about in his post had changed,” Nelson added in messages to CNN.

CNN found the article about X where he was mentioned from the think tank in 2012.

Two more blog posts Vance wrote for the site, are still active, but CNN noted that the “Blueprint” article has been removed from the site. The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, where the post was stored, shows that it was published sometime between March 2014 and February 2016.

“Only attractive to white people”

Vance began his article with a scathing critique of Republican strategies and candidates, which he blamed for the party's failures within the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections.

“When the 2008 election was called for Obama, I assumed: Maybe my party can learn some very vital lessons from this,” Vance wrote. “You can't nominate people like Sarah Palin who alienate swing voters. You can't actively alienate every growing block of the American electorate – blacks, Latinos, youth – and you possibly can't rely solely on the one shrinking block of the electorate – whites. And yet, 4 years later, I’m forced to reassess a few party that nominated the worst people like Richard Mourdock and tried to win an election by appealing only to whites.”

In the article, which Nelson asked to be removed, Vance argued that the Republican Party would be in trouble if it did not adapt to the country's changing demographics. He criticized the GOP's adherence to supply-side politics, comparing it to support for outdated policies such as Soviet containment. He said that during the Bush years, this approach to the economy led to stagnant wages and concentrated growth, alienating minority voters who found Democratic policies more relevant and appealing.

“Republicans are losing minority voters for easy and obvious reasons: their policy proposals are trite, unoriginal, or openly hostile to non-whites,” Vance wrote.

By COLLEEN LONG

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance didn’t back down on Sunday from the false allegations he and Donald Trump have ensured that Haitians in a Ohio Community kidnap and eat pets, although the state's Republican governor and other officials insist there is no such thing as a evidence of such behavior.

Vance, an Ohio senator, said voters in Springfield were telling him their concerns and a minimum of 10 of them were “verifiable.” In a series of interviews on news programs, he said he exaggerated the allegations to attract attention to Democrat Kamala Harris' immigration policies, which he described as lax. He added: “Anyone who has dealt with a large influx of immigrants knows that sometimes there are cultural practices that seem very far-fetched to many Americans.”

Local and state officials have said the allegations are unfaithful, unfairly solid the town in a negative light, and have generated unwanted and frightening negative attention since Trump. mentioned it within the presidential debate last week when he mentioned Springfield by name. For two days Bomb threats led to the evacuation of colleges and government buildings. Some email threats pointed to an influx of migrants into the community.

But it wasn't just Springfield officials who denied the allegations. Governor Mike DeWine (Republican of Ohio) said Sunday: “There's a lot of garbage on the Internet and, you know, that garbage was just not true. There's no evidence for it at all.”

He continued, “Let me tell you what we know. What we know is that the Haitians that are in Springfield are legal. They came to Springfield to work. Ohio is on the move, and Springfield has really seen a big boom with a lot of companies coming here. These Haitians have come to work for these companies. What the companies are telling us is that they are very good workers. They are very happy to have them there. And, frankly, that has helped the economy.”

Nevertheless, the narrative has dominated Trump’s campaign messages over the past week and shows how some within the Republican Party are willing to make use of false claims as a part of the inflammatory and anti-immigration rhetoric which Trump promoted throughout his election campaigns.

“Whatever any local mayor has said about this case, I hear from dozens of constituents who are concerned about these issues,” Vance said.

He added: “I think it's important to say that we are not angry at Haitian migrants who want a better life. We are angry at Kamala Harris for letting this happen to a small town in Ohio, and thank God Donald Trump has called attention to this and would fight back against this policy if the American people were willing.”

About 15,000 immigrants have arrived in recent times to the predominantly white and working-class city of about 60,000 inhabitants, just over an hour west of Columbus.

Springfield also says the Haitian immigrants are within the U.S. legally, under a federal program that permits them temporary residency within the country. Last month Biden administration grants approval for a short lived legal status for about 300,000 Haitians already within the USAciting conditions in Haiti which might be deemed unsafe for his or her return. Haiti's government has declared a state of emergency as a consequence of rampant gang violence across the country.

Vance was asked in an interview whether he knew the allegations were false.

“If I have to invent stories to get the American media to actually pay attention to the suffering of the American people, then I will do that,” Vance said, quickly clarifying that he “created the focus that allowed the media to talk about this story and the suffering caused by the policies.”

Vance appeared on CBS's “Face the Nation,” CNN's “State of the Union” and NBC's “Meet the Press,” while DeWine appeared on ABC's “This Week.”

Originally published: September 15, 2024 at 8:57 am

Relationships on Wall Street

Unlikely allies

Local news

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance spoke on the Congress of the International Association of Firefighters in Boston on Thursday, a day after Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz spoke at the identical event.

Both candidates are vying for the support of one among the biggest unions, which represents nearly 350,000 employees.

An IAFF spokesperson told Boston.com that each campaigns had contacted the union about speaking on the event, but they didn’t provide an actual timeline for when each candidate would accomplish that.

After being introduced by Republican Rep. Carlos Giménez of Florida, Vance was greeted with a mixture of boos and cheers as he took the stage.

“Sounds like we have some fans and some haters,” he said. “That's okay.”

Vance began his speech by talking about his mother, who he said struggled with addiction.

“Believe me, believe a child who saw it with his own eyes,” Vance said. “Without some of the people sitting in this room, we probably wouldn't have a second chance with my mother.”

Vance said he was “proud” to be a “populist” and called former President Donald Trump a “different kind of Republican.”

“Our enemies and many Democrats call us populists as if it's an insult,” Vance said. “If being a populist means being on the side of working people and not the powerful elites who have hollowed out our middle class and pushed us into stupid foreign wars, then I'm in.”

The Senator from Ohio asked the union, the supported Joe Biden for president in 2020, but has not yet announced support for that race to think about supporting the Republicans this time.

“For decades, unions have supported Democratic candidates without paying much attention to Republicans,” Vance said. “What good has it done for you in this union to support Democrats for so long?”

The IAFF spokesperson told Boston.com that there isn’t a set timeline for a possible advice.

Vance acknowledged the union's “diverse” political beliefs and thanked his firefighter friend from Dayton, Ohio, for changing his mind about Trump.

“Some of you love President Trump, some of you obviously don’t,” he said.[Trump] modified my mind and he won my vote, and for the skeptics on the market, I hope he modified your mind too.”

On Wednesday, Walz was also conscious of the bipartisan demographics of his audience and made an appeal to the Republicans and undecided candidates in the room.

“When Republicans used to speak about freedom, they meant it – but not anymore,” Walz said. “These guys over there want the federal government to have the liberty to invade every corner of our lives, from our union halls to our kids's schools to our doctor's offices.”

But Vance said Trump “cares about the working people.”

“Many Democrats need to attack Republicans as anti-union, and sometimes that's true, but not me and never Donald Trump,” he said.

In his speech, Walz attacked Vance and Trump for their attitude toward workers and Project 2025.

“The only thing these guys find out about working people is how you can exploit them,” Walz said. “Project 2025 is a plan to reshape what America looks like by turning away from the center class and putting it back within the hands of the oligarchs and the wealthy at the highest.”

Vance asked for the union's support and endorsement.

“I would like your support,” Vance said. “We will fight for you whether we get it or not.”

IVF, Trump and Abortion

Firestorm in Florida

NEW YORK (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance says Donald Trump wouldn’t support a nationwide abortion ban if elected president and would veto such laws if it landed on his desk.

“I can absolutely guarantee that,” Vance said when asked on NBC's “Meet the Press” if he could prohibit Trump from making such a ban. “Donald Trump's view is that we want the individual states, with their respective cultures and their respective political sensitivities, to make these decisions because we don't want a perpetual conflict at the federal level over this issue.”

The Ohio senator also stressed that Trump, the previous president and this 12 months's Republican candidate, would veto such a bill if it were passed by Congress.

“I mean, if you don't support it as president of the United States, you basically have to veto it,” he said in an interview that aired Sunday.

Vance's comments come after Democrats at their national convention in Chicago last week attacked Trump night after night for his role in appointing the Supreme Court justices who overturned the Roe v. Wade decision, ending the constitutional right to abortion within the United States and paving the best way for bans and restrictions in Republican-led states.

But efforts to neutralize a difficulty that Democrats hope will mobilize voters in the autumn also risk alienating parts of Trump's electoral base that oppose abortion rights.

“God have mercy on this nation if this is now the position of the former pro-life party,” Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, wrote in a post Sunday with a link to an article about Vance's comments.

While Trump has repeatedly boasted about his role in overturning the Roe decision, in recent days he has dismissed warnings from Democrats that he would go further and restrict access to information if he were to win a second term.

“My administration will be great for women and their reproductive rights,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform on Friday, adopting the language of abortion rights activists and the left.

His comments sparked a wave of criticism from anti-abortion groups, including the editor of the conservative National Review, which published an article titled “Trump Has Completely Abandoned Pro-Lifers.”

Trump repeated his claim hours later at an event in Las Vegas.

“I am a strong supporter of women's reproductive rights. I am a strong supporter of IVF (in vitro fertilization). We are leaders here. And I think people see that,” he told reporters.

The Democrats reacted to Trump with great skepticism.

“American women are not stupid, and we will not entrust the future of our daughters and granddaughters to two men who have openly bragged about denying women across the country access to abortion,” Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren told NBC.

Senator Lindsey Graham, RS.C., a Trump ally, waved off an issue about how Trump can be “great” on the problem of reproductive rights.

“You'll have to ask him. I would say President Trump has been a very good pro-life president,” he said on CNN's “State of the Union.”

“Pro-lifers,” Graham said, “have stood up for the welfare of the child and offered the mother alternatives to abortion.” Graham said, “This movement will continue even after his death.”

Trump has often struggled to speak about abortion. Before entering politics, he described himself as “very pro-choice.” Earlier this 12 months, he wrestled along with his stance on a federal abortion ban, at one point hinting that he would support such a ban starting at 15 weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions in cases of rape, incest and when the mother's life is in peril. He then settled on his current position: that restrictions must be left to individual states.

Trump has not commented on how he intends to vote in an upcoming referendum on the six-week travel ban in Florida.

In an interview with CBS News earlier this week, Trump said he “does not regret” his role in overturning the Roe v. Wade ruling. But after months of confusing statements, he said he wouldn’t use a federal law called the Comstock Act to ban the distribution of medication used as alternatives to surgical abortions, something a few of his allies have called for and something Vance has supported prior to now.

“We will discuss the details, but in general, no,” he said. “I wouldn't do that.”

“It will be available and it is now. And as far as I know, the Supreme Court has said, 'Let it continue as before.' I will advocate for that and agree with the Supreme Court, but basically they have said, let it continue as before,” he said.

Since the Roe decision in the summertime of 2022, the problem of abortion has been a robust motif for Democrats, and the party expects it to play a key role again this 12 months.

On the stage on the Democratic National Convention, women told harrowing personal stories of being forced to hold non-viable pregnancies and being denied miscarriage care, jeopardizing their future fertility.

Trump, reacting to the speech in real time, falsely insisted that “everyone, Democrats, Republicans, liberals and conservatives, wanted Roe v. Wade to be ended and returned to the States.”

“I do not restrict access to contraception or IVF – THAT'S A LIE, these are all false stories she makes up,” he wrote. “I TOO TRUST WOMEN AND I WILL STAND UP FOR THEM'S PROTECTION!”

As Election Day approaches, candidates are using every thing at their disposal to woo voters: targeted ads, text messages, taunts, and campaign speeches.

As a fashion historianI feel one aspect of the campaign trail that is commonly missed is clothing. It is a quiet but powerful way for candidates to speak who they’re to the American public.

It is an act as old as power itself.

“Clothing, from the king’s cloak downward, is symbolic,” wrote Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle in “Sartor Resartus,” a groundbreaking text in fashion studies.

Tim Walz, Kamala Harris, JD Vance and Donald Trump have all taken a cue from this 1834 publication. Each of them wears an emblem to appeal to voters – and indicate how they’ll lead.

The Crown of the People

What's more American than a baseball cap?

When Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, wears one among these in the course of the election campaign, he isn’t only covering up his thinning hair.

To the detriment of many churchgoers and office managerBaseball caps have evolved beyond the ballpark to turn out to be a ubiquitous symbol of an American guy.

“It is completely egalitarian,” speculated a brand guru at New Era, the official baseball cap supplier of Major League Baseball. “It's the people's crown.”

The baseball cap was born out of functionality. Shaded eyes can see higher. In the Eighties Choose between styles from pillboxes within the form of pageboys with thick brims to something that newsboys could carry. Consumer selections pushed manufacturers like Spalding to go for the dome shape that’s common today.

I feel Walz wears these hats to inform voters, “Hey, I’m just like you.”

He has a cap for each occasion. The former highschool coach wears a trucker cap with mesh sides when he's hosting a fishing competition. He wears a camouflaged number when he's talking to other hunters. He switches to an NFL Minnesota Vikings version when he's eating corn dogs with reporters and one other with Goldy Gopher — the University of Minnesota's mascot — when he Hugging piglets on the state fair.

Gentle movements

Whether She dances to the rhythm of a drum or Turn burgersPresidential candidate Kamala Harris is often seen wearing a classic pair of Chuck Taylor All-Stars.

Marquis Mills Converse designed the sneaker in 1917 at his Massachusetts-based rubber shoe company to appeal to basketball players. a comparatively latest sport that has turn out to be increasingly popularThe shoe's diagonally profiled sole prevented players from slipping on the basketball courts that were bobbing up on college campuses and in cities across the country.

Today, the cultural influence of the Chuck Taylor All-Stars can’t be overestimated.

Fashion historian say the democratic origins of the shoe – at one point, it had 70% of the basketball shoe market – are a part of its ongoing appeal. Company archivist Attribute its success of its utilitarian simplicity.

But within the Seventies the up-and-coming Adidas Superstarwhich were lighter and had a protective toe shell, became a favourite amongst basketball players.

Whatever. Skateboarder from California fell in love with the soles of the All-Starthat provided extra grip on their decks, so it's by some means fitting that a California politician made the shoe a component of her signature style.

The low-cut model worn by Harris was introduced within the Fifties for a non-athletic market and she or he raves in regards to the shoes' practicality and flexibility.

“I walk through airports in my Converse sneakers,” She told The Cuta web based fashion publication, in 2017. “I have a whole collection… a pair in black leather, a pair in white leather, I have the non-laced kind and the laced kind.”

She wore the shoes on the duvet of Vogue magazine in 2021, they usually were a continuing presence as she ran for the highest job.

Beyond the comfort that sneakers offer a candidate who spends quite a lot of time on her feet, I feel they convey a more subtle message that recalls her origins: able to move, able to spin, able to win.

Imitation is flattery

A red tie is nothing latest. For centuries, military leaders and their armies wore red ties. to radiate power and aggression. Chinese imperial warriors wore red headscarves. Roman soldiers wore red headscarves to match the colour of Emperor Trajan's cloak.

Former President Trump has worn a red tie because the early Eighties, when he was best generally known as a ruthless real estate mogul. As president, he took it up a notch: “Republican Red.”

Although red has long been related to dominance and keenness, it only became the colour of the Republican Party in recent many years after television networks assigned the party the colour to announce state election results.

As Oscar Wilde wrote, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” and Trump’s supporters copied his clothing style.

Vance is one among them. The incontrovertible fact that the Republican vice presidential candidate is wearing the red tie is the icing on the cake of his transformation from tech bro to MAGA supporter.

As menswear expert Derek Guy wroteVance was having fun with a golden period on his path to becoming a vice presidential candidate. Gone were the times of off-the-rack gray suit jackets, paired with open-collar and button-down shirts and nice jeans.

Instead, the uniform of his latest boss: navy blue suits, worn with the more formal spread collars – and yes, shiny red ties.

Guy sees Vance’s makeover as “a fad, a way for him to previous criticism and prove his loyalty to Trump.”

Vance's suits fit higher than Trump's, and his tie is a little bit looser, however the message is identical because it has been for millennia: “I am the man in the room who commands this army.”

Well, so long as Trump isn't there.

Orange Crush

Trump blames the orange hue of his skin to energy efficient light bulbsbut there may be more to it than that.

Liked by the New York Times Unlike “Warhol's shock of white hair or Big Bird's scarlet plumage,” Trump's fake tan was “a culturally embedded image of his personality long before he entered politics.” Beauty editors have picked apart the look, cartoonists have mocked it, and critics have ridiculed it mercilessly.

And yet he continues to shine. Why?

Although sun worship has existed since time immemorial, tanned skin is a cultural phenomenon of the twentieth century. The trend is commonly attributed to French dressmaker Coco Chanel, who told Vogue in 1929: “A golden tan is an indication of chic.” More likely, tanned skin became popular resulting from a boom in outdoor recreational activities corresponding to sailing, tennis and golf, which became the domain of the wealthy and famous.

Trump's tan suits his public image as a wealthy power broker. Sociologists are studying why persons are motivated to make use of artificial tanning concluded that “tanned white skin may mean that its owner is a healthy, relatively wealthy, sociable, physically fit and attractive person.”

To achieve this goal, tanning enthusiasts turned to science. The first tanning salon opened in 1978. By 2004, there have been already 50,000 establishments serving 28 million customers.

Self-tanner — the widely accepted source of Trump's hue — have been around because the Chanel days. Originally, they were a style of makeup. But by the Seventies, all the main cosmetic brands were offering chemical versions that coloured actual skin. Soon, magazine editors were falling over themselves to offer instructions on find out how to prep skin and apply the product for a fair finish. an issue that has occasionally plagued Trump.

For Trump, the flexibility of self-tanner to convey youth and vitality is more essential than ever. because the age of the previous president has turn out to be the topic of criticism.