From the DNC:
As JD Vance parachutes into Radford, Virginia today, the DNC is launching a new mobile billboard that will circle the rally site highlighting the stakes for Virginians as Donald Trump and JD Vance push their extreme Project 2025 agenda, which seeks to ban abortion nationwide without exceptions for rape or incest. In the 2023 Virginia legislative elections, Virginia voters turned out decisively to reject Governor Glenn Youngkin’s extreme abortion ban. Virginia voters will do the same to reject Donald Trump and JD Vance.
A reminder: if Trump and Vance win this election, they will implement a national abortion ban that will override the will of Virginia voters.
Here are the facts about Donald Trump and JD Vance when it comes to their plans to restrict our fundamental freedoms:
- After overturning Roe v. Wade, Donald Trump owns every single abortion ban and policy that’s ripped away essential reproductive health care from women across the country.
- Vance was caught on leaked audio expressing how he would like for abortion to be illegal nationally.
- Trump has doubled down on taking credit for extreme state abortion bans, bragging that he “broke Roe,” saying he “was proudly the person responsible” for overturning it and it is “working the way it’s supposed to.”
- Vance supports banning abortion nationally, criticizes exceptions for rape and incest, admitted he’s open to banning women from crossing state lines for reproductive care, and compared abortion to slavery.
- Vance suggested that women should stay in violent marriages for the sake of their children.
- Trump and Vance have deep ties to Project 2025, an extreme second term agenda created by those who know Trump best, that plots to ban abortion nationwide and punish women who get abortions.
DNC Spokesperson Addy Toevs released the following statement:
“Ahead of JD Vance’s first solo campaign rally, it’s important to remember that Virginians have already rejected an extreme abortion ban once, and they will do it once again in November. The Trump-Vance ticket’s extreme, anti-abortion, anti-women message has proven to be unpopular with voters in Virginia and across the nation. Add that on top of their dangerous Project 2025 agenda which would make the ultra-wealthy richer, raise costs for working families, and gut Medicare and Social Security, and you see how Trump and Vance’s plans are a direct affront to what voters in Virginia and across the country care most about. This year, Virginians will choose Democrats’ vision for the nation over the Trump-Vance ticket’s anti-freedom, anti-women future. We’re doing the work to win everywhere – community by community, block by block.”
Watch the mobile billboard video here.
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