Here’s what Governor Tim Walz had to say about JD Vance doubling down on his and Donald Trump’s Project 2025 plans to attack reproductive freedom:
“JD Vance and Donald Trump are going to ban medication abortion, making sure they make decisions in getting between you and your doctor. Vice President Harris and I will make sure that you make your health care decisions because we have a rule, whether you’d make the same decision as someone else: Just mind your own damn business.”
In case you missed it, this morning, Vance doubled down on Trump’s plans to ban abortion medication and he defended his cozy friendship with Project 2025 leaders whose plans for a Trump administration would ban abortion in all 50 states, jeopardize fertility treatments like IVF, and put access to birth control at risk.
Things only got worse from there. Here are a few other moments you may have missed from Vance’s morning:
- Admitted that Kevin Roberts, the head of Project 2025, “is a friend of mine.” (We know, JD, you wrote the foreword in his upcoming book.)
- Touted his work campaigning to ban abortion in Ohio. (Without the referendum, women in Ohio would be living under one of the strictest, near-total abortion bans in the country.)
- Lied that “Trump doesn’t know anything about” Nick Fuentes, the far-right conspiracy theorist. (They famously had dinner together at his Mar-a-Lago country club.)
- On the Florida abortion referendum, Vance said Trump should “do what he has done up to this point … [He] has shown real leadership there.” (Yes, we know, just ask the more than one in three women of reproductive age living under an abortion ban in this country.)
- Left the door open to banning abortion medication. (Trump greenlit plans to wipe out access to medication abortion.)
- Backed Trump’s authoritarian plans to wield power over the Federal Reserve, which would skyrocket inflation. (Vice President Harris would continue to protect the Fed’s long-standing independence.)
- Dug himself deeper into a hole by yet again standing by his attacks against women that have put off even MAGA conservatives. (These weird and extreme views are part of “a clear pattern” for JD that includes banning abortion nationwide, giving women’s medical records to law enforcement, and opposing affordable child care.)
- Stumbled repeatedly trying to defend Donald Trump’s plan to ban abortion medication. (Last week, Trump said he was open to it and today, JD couldn’t answer for him.)
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