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Democrats spotlight Biden alter-ego ‘Dark Brandon’ as they launch billboards near GOP convention
FIRST ON FOX – As GOP delegates, officials, activists, and supporters head to day two of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Democrats have a message for them. The day after former President Trump was formally nominated as the GOP’s 2024 standard-bearer, the Democratic National Committee, in a messaging push shared first with Fox News, is touting what they highlight as President Biden’s “winning record.” The DNC on Tuesday is launching eight new billboards in Milwaukee, urging Wisconsinites to “Vote Joe” and showcasing that in Biden’s three and a half years in the White House, he has “created more than 15 million new good paying jobs, lowered costs on health care and prescription drugs, and worked to strengthen our democracy, not tear it down.” TRUMP ANNOUNCES JD VANCE AS HIS 2024 RUNNING MATE The new billboards feature “Dark Brandon” – an image of Biden featuring beaming laser red eyes that was created by his detractors and co-opted by his campaign – an alter-ego of the 81-year-old president used by his political team to extoll his policy victories. CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST FOX NEWS REPORTING FROM THE GOP CONVENTION “Restore Roe, vote for Joe,” reads an abortion-themed billboard. Another one says “Get on board folks, we’re lowering prescription drug costs.,” while a different billboard reads “Democracy is on the ballot folks. Stand with Joe!!” The DNC went up with billboards in Milwaukee earlier in July ahead of the start of the GOP convention that highlighted what they say were Trump’s failures in Wisconsin – a key battleground state – during his tenure in the White House. However, those billboards were dropped, along with all TV ads across the country that were being run by the Biden campaign, after Saturday’s attempted assassination attempt on the former president at a Trump rally in western Pennsylvania. Deputy communications director Abhi Rahman said that “the DNC is highlighting Joe Biden’s winning platform and policies that are delivering for the American people. We’re making sure voters know it by bringing Dark Brandon to Milwaukee to outline a bold second term agenda that sharply contrasts with what Wisconsinites are seeing on the RNC stage this week – restoring Roe, lowering costs, protecting Social Security, and safeguarding our democracy.” The billboards are being launched the day after Trump named Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, who is a top Trump supporter in the Senate and a champion of the former president’s America First agenda, as his running mate. Rahman charged that Trump, Vance and the GOP highlighted during the first day of the convention “unpopular and extreme policies that would rip fundamental rights away from women and leave working families behind.” Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
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Former Trump primary rival Haley in Republican convention spotlight on day after JD Vance named running mate
MILWAUKEE- One day after Donald Trump was formally nominated as the GOP’s 2024 presidential nominee and named Sen. JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate, Trump’s final rival during the presidential primaries takes center stage at the Republican National Convention. Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who served as U.N. ambassador in the Trump administration, will speak at the convention on Tuesday, multiple sources familiar with the decision confirmed to Fox News over the weekend. As of last week, Haley wasn’t invited to speak at the convention and wasn’t planning on attending the four-day confab, which is being held in swing state, Wisconsin’s largest city. But following Saturday’s attempted assassination attempt on Trump at a rally in western Pennsylvania, where the former president was visibly bloodied after a bullet grazed his ear and where one spectator was killed and two critically injured, the GOP quickly unified around their standard-bearer. And as part of that push for unity, Haley was invited to speak at the convention. TRUMP ANNOUNCES JD VANCE AS HIS 2024 RUNNING MATE Haley launched her presidential campaign in February last year, becoming the first major candidate to challenge Trump, who had announced his candidacy three months earlier. She was the final rival to Trump, battling the former president in a contentious two-candidate showdown from the New Hampshire primary in late January through Super Tuesday in early March. CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST FOX NEWS REPORTING FROM THE GOP CONVENTION Haley announced that she was suspending her White House campaign on March 6, the day after Trump swept 14 of 15 GOP nominating contests on Super Tuesday. As she departed the race, Haley made it clear that she intended to keep speaking out. And Haley continued to grab up to 20% of the vote in Republican presidential primaries in the months after she dropped out. In late May, in her first public comments since announcing the end of her 2024 campaign, Haley said she would vote for Trump. Haley won a total of 97 delegates during the Republican presidential primaries. And last week, Haley released all of her delegates and urged them to support Trump. Asked last week in an interview with Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade about Haley, Trump said “there was a lot of bad blood there, and she stayed too long.” Pointing to another former nomination rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who left the race three days ahead of the New Hampshire primary, Trump said, “DeSantis left right after Iowa. She should have left right after Iowa.” Also in the spotlight on the second night of the convention, a handful of high-profile Republican Senate candidates will address GOP delegates from the podium of Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum. Thanks in part to a very favorable Senate electoral map, the GOP aims to win back the majority in the chamber that it lost in the 2020 election cycle. Tuesday’s session follows Monday’s blockbuster developments. Just ahead of his formal nomination during the convention’s presidential roll call, Trump announced his much anticipated choice for running mate. With an eye toward the future of a Republican Party dominated by Trump and his legions of MAGA supporters, the former president added the 39-year-old Vance to the party’s national ticket. Trump will now share the ticket with one of his top supporters in the Senate and a one-time Trump critic who has transformed into a leading America First disciple. Vance, a former venture capitalist and the author of the bestselling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” before running for elective office, was one of a handful of Republicans considered top running mate contenders. That group also included North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida. As Fox News reported, Rubio and Burgum received phone calls a couple of hours ahead of Trump’s announcement that they would not be named as the running mate. And a well-placed source in Vance’s political orbit told Fox News that the senator wasn’t informed he was the running mate until 20 minutes before Trump unveiled his choice in a social media post on the Truth Social platform. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
JD Vance brings a wealth of experience from Silicon Valley to the campaign, White House
The GOP vice presidential nominee is only a freshman senator, but has years of experience outside the political arena that is likely to boost the Republican ticket in November. On Monday, former President Donald Trump tapped JD Vance of Ohio to be his running mate. Vance is the New York Times bestselling author of Hillbilly Elegy, a Yale Law School graduate, former Marine, and recently elected to the U.S. Senate in 2022. “I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio,” Trump posted on his social media platform, Truth Social. “J.D. has had a very successful business career in Technology and Finance,” the former president added. JD VANCE’S RESPONSE TO THE EAST PALESTINE DERAILMENT WAS FIRST MEMORABLE THING THE OHIO SENATOR DID But before building his political career, Vance was a successful venture capitalist. Yahoo Finance reported that Vance’s Silicon Valley contacts first helped him bring investor dollars to his home state of Ohio, and then helped fund his campaign for the Senate and have already helped contribute to the Trump campaign. After graduating from Yale Law school in 2013, Vance moved to San Francisco, where he worked at Mithril Capital, a firm co-founded by former PayPal CEO and Republican donor Peter Thiel, the outlet reported. PRO-LIFE GROUPS RALLY BEHIND TRUMP VP PICK JD VANCE DESPITE HIS SUPPORT FOR ‘ACCESSIBLE’ ABORTION PILLS Vance also spent time in his early career near the nation’s capital working for former AOL CEO Steve Case’s venture capital firm, Revolution LLC. There he spearheaded a project to expand capital opportunities to small towns like Middletown, Ohio — where Vance was born, Yahoo notes. “J.D. Vance has become a leading voice for people across the country who feel left behind, so he is the perfect person to help us expand Rise Of The Rest,” Case said in 2017, according to the outlet. In 2020 Vance launched his own Cincinnati-based fund, reportedly with the backing of, Marc Andreessen, Eric Schmidt, and Scott Dorsey. Yahoo reports that firm was founded to help redirect big East Coast dollars into investment opportunities in states like Ohio. Earlier this year, Vance helped to organize a fundraiser for Trump’s campaign with billionaire investor David Sacks. That fundraiser, hosted at Sacks’ home, marked Trump’s first visit to San Francisco in years and resulted in a $12 million boost to Trump’s re-election fund. TRUMP PICK JD VANCE CELEBRATED BY GOP: ‘OPPONENT OF ENDLESS WARS’ In June, Vance spoke to Fox News’ Lawrence Jones, who asked him what a “JD Vance economy” would look like. “A lot more manufacturing jobs than we have right now,” he said. “If you look, the economies that really, really thrive, they’ve got a foundation of strong manufacturing. They’re developing their own energy.”
Kamala Harris congratulates JD Vance, hopes ‘that the two can meet’ at VP debate
Vice President Kamala Harris called Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, whom former President Trump chose as his running mate Monday, and congratulated him after the announcement. “Vice President Harris reached out to Senator Vance and left a message to congratulate him on his selection, welcome him to the race and express her hope that the two can meet in the vice presidential debate proposed by CBS News,” a Biden campaign official told Fox News. After months of teasing his pick, Trump revealed Vance as his running mate selection in a Truth Social post on the opening afternoon of the Republican National Convention. WHAT TRUMP-VANCE TICKET MEANS FOR MITCH MCCONNELL’S UKRAINE AID CRUSADE In May, Trump accepted a vice presidential debate on behalf of his future running mate to be hosted on Fox News. However, the Biden campaign has only been willing to do the debate on CBS. While no vice presidential debate has been confirmed yet, in the case that Vance and Harris do face off, it may be the vice president’s worst-case scenario. President Biden and former President Trump agreed to two presidential debates. The first was hosted by CNN on June 27 and the second will be hosted by ABC on Sept. 10. TRUMP PICK JD VANCE CELEBRATED BY GOP: ‘OPPONENT OF ENDLESS WARS’ “I think JD Vance would pose the greatest threat [to] Kamala Harris, in some respects. I mean he’s an incredible debater,” Ashley Etienne, Harris’ former communications director, previously told CNN. “I think he has this quality that makes him seem palpable to that one to two percent that actually might vote or that is undecided, that will actually pay attention to the debates because most people don’t pay attention to the debates,” she explained. TRUMP PICKS JD VANCE AS RUNNING MATE AS HE BECOMES GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE She described the 39-year-old senator as both “super smart” and “quick-witted,” which she noted could be a problem for Harris. This could pose a particular issue for the vice president, who has become known for “word salads” or rambling monologues that often find their way onto social media. One such clip going viral on TikTok and other social media platforms features Harris asking, “You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?” TRUMP CELEBRATES ‘MIRACLE’ SURVIVAL, EXPLAINS WHY HE ASKED ABOUT HIS SHOES After laughing, she continues to say, “You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.” Harris has even been the subject of a Saturday Night Live skit, which made fun of the habit. “It’s a process I call speaking without thinking,” joked Daily Show correspondent Desi Lydic, playing the role of the vice president’s “holistic thought adviser, Dahlia Rose Hibiscus.” “It’s not about the destination of the thought, it’s about the journey and how many words you use to describe the journey,” she added. One author, Elaina Plott Calabro, who profiled Harris for months at the Atlantic remarked, “She’s a very poor communicator when the parameters are quite wide.” In a setting such as a debate, where communication is one of the most important elements, its unclear whether Harris would be able to stack up. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
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JD Vance, once a Never Trumper, is the VP pick to shape MAGA’s future
My Spidey sense told me all along that Donald Trump wanted to pick JD Vance as his running mate. He saw the freshman senator as a populist conservative in his own mold, an eloquent voice who could help cement Trumpism as the future of the Republican Party. Plus, he had a powerful advocate in Donald Trump, Jr. But then, after the horrible assassination attempt on Trump last weekend, I had a moment of doubt. The former president had started saying that he needed someone who could help him get elected. Given the heightened awareness of someone who’s been shot that his choice might have to immediately take over as president, I thought Trump might reconsider and tap the far better known and more experienced Marco Rubio. Nope. TRUMP SURVIVES SHOOTING, BUT THE POLITICALLY CHARGED BLAME GAME NEVER FADES Vance has several things going for him. He served in Iraq, giving him a military credential that his rivals lacked. And while he is from Ohio, he speaks Midwestern. If that helps Trump win neighboring Pennsylvania, the election is over. President Biden’s only path to re-election – which his own party’s leaders privately believe is exceedingly narrow – is to win Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. Vance, after writing “Hillbilly Elegy,” said some terrible things about Trump in 2016, including likening him to Hitler. So did Rubio, and the former president has long since mended fences with both men. The downside for Vance is that most ordinary voters have never heard of him, and his relative inexperience, having just been elected to public office in 2022, is open to question. Vance has owned his past torching of Trump and said he was happy to be wrong once he met the former president. He also modified his positions, especially on abortion, to fall in the line with the MAGA agenda. The Biden campaign immediately hit Vance by saying he “will do what Mike Pence wouldn’t on January 6: bend over backwards to enable Trump and his extreme MAGA agenda, even if it means breaking the law and no matter the harm to the American people.” GOP PUNCHES A MAGA TICKET, WHICH DEMOCRATS ARE ALREADY SMEARING AS ‘EXTREME’ In his 2022 campaign, Vance said he would vote to set the national abortion ban at 15 weeks, but he also believes in certain exceptions. Trump is against a national ban, sticking to the Supreme Court language leaving it up to the states. Trump has been sending signals while discussing the merits of his running mate. He said North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, a wealthy tech investor whose company he enjoys, was problematic because he signed very strict abortion restrictions in his state. Also, Burgum is largely unknown and North Dakota has three electoral votes. When discussing Rubio, who spoke at a recent rally with Trump, the former president said the constitutional bar against two running mates from the same state could easily be fixed – but was still a complication that might be better avoided. JD VANCE’S RESPONSE TO THE EAST PALESTINE DERAILMENT WAS FIRST MEMORABLE THING THE OHIO SENATOR DID The sequence of yesterday’s announcement was odd. Both Rubio and Burgum, presumably with Trump’s permission, said they had gotten calls that they were out of the running, which left Vance by the process of elimination. Perhaps Trump realized this because he confirmed Vance well before waiting for the 4:30 ET time and Vance was told he was the guy just 20 minutes before Trump went public. For political junkies, Vance is now the instant frontrunner for 2028. And I’ve learned once again to trust my Spidey sense.
Who is JD Vance, Trump’s pick for US vice president?
Donald Trump has chosen Senator JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate as the former US president looks to return to the White House. Vance, 39, rose to national fame with the 2016 publication of his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, which was published as Trump was first running for president. Vance was elected to the United States Senate in 2022 and has become one of the staunchest champions of the former president’s “Make America Great Again” agenda, particularly on trade, foreign policy and immigration. But he is largely untested in national politics and is joining the Trump ticket at an extraordinary moment. An attempted assassination of Trump at a rally on Saturday has shaken the campaign, bringing new attention to the nation’s coarse political rhetoric, and reinforcing the importance of those who are one heartbeat away from the presidency. From rural Ohio to the Marine Corps Vance grew up in Middletown, Ohio, served in the Marine Corps, including in Iraq, and graduated from Ohio State University and Yale Law School. From there, he joined a Silicon Valley investment firm before returning to Ohio to launch a non-profit that he said would aim to develop opioid addiction treatments that might be “scaled nationally”. Ultimately, Our Ohio Renewal failed at that mission and was shuttered. Vance with his wife Usha during the 2022 US midterm elections in Ohio [File: Gaelen Morse/Reuters] Bestselling author Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy earned him a reputation as someone who could help explain Trump’s appeal in middle America, and especially among the working-class, rural white voters who helped Trump win the presidency in 2016. The book detailed life in Appalachian communities that drifted from a Democratic Party many residents found disconnected from their daily travails. While the book was a bestseller, it was also criticised for sometimes oversimplifying rural life and ignoring the role of racism in modern politics. Trump critic-turned-stanch supporter During the early stages of Trump’s political career, Vance cast him as “a total fraud,” “a moral disaster” and “America’s Hitler”. But like many Republicans who sought relevance in the Trump era, Vance eventually shifted his tone. He said he was proved wrong by Trump’s performance in office and evolved into one of his most steadfast defenders. Vance was rewarded for his turnaround during his bid for an open Senate seat in 2022, during which he landed Trump’s coveted endorsement and rode it to victory in a crowded Republican primary and a general election hard fought by Democrats. He was elected to the Senate in 2022 and has since become one of the staunchest champions of the former president’s “Make America Great Again” agenda. As a senator, Vance has shown some willingness to work across the aisle. He and Ohio’s senior Senator Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, have teamed up on a number of issues important to the state, including fighting for funding for a $20bn chip facility Intel is building in central Ohio and introducing rail safety legislation in response to the fiery 2023 freight-train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Views on Israel-Palestine conflict Vance is a staunch supporter of Israel, offering an “America First with an Israel exception” worldview. “America is not good at micromanaging wars in the Middle East… I think that our attitude vis-a-vis the Israelis should be look, we’re not good at micromanaging Middle Eastern wars, the Israelis are our allies, let them prosecute this war the way they see fit,” he told the CNN network in an interview in May. Vance was among the first to blame the Biden administration for allegedly empowering Hamas to commit the October 7 attack. Hours after the attack, he said the “Americans must face a stark truth: our tax dollars funded this”, according to media reports. “Money is fungible, and many of the dollars we sent to Iran are being used to now kill innocent people. This must stop. Israel has every right to defend itself. I wish our friends well, but most of all I wish they weren’t fighting against weapons bought with our money,” he said. Adblock test (Why?)