The Streisand Effect is in full force here. I see now why Musk and Zuckerburg don’t want this out there. Vance was against trump hugely in the beginning and then swapped around 2020. Also, the people who he has donated to and have donated to him are laid out completely. Those names should be looked into since he received 15 million for his Senate race.

At the end, they source and explain all of the bullet points of his quotes against trump, his flip flopping and his “bad for moderates” stances. If our media went after him at all, this would be a great starting point since it is fully sourced.

My general summary:

• Since 2018, Vance has failed to vote in at least four elections including the 2020 primary elections.
• Vance was not a registered Republican Party voter in Hamilton County between September 2018 and May 2022.
• While not a lobbyist himself, Vance’s old law firm, Sidley Austin, lobbied on behalf of several controversial clients during his tenure with the company. (Purdue Pharma and Chinese Communist Party-affiliated companies including Alibaba and Kaisa Group.)
• During the 2016 campaign, Vance indicated he believed the women who accused Trump of sexual assault.
• Vance previously heaped praise upon Hillary Clinton (ed note: lol)
• Vance appears to have once indicated that Joe Biden could have beat Trump in 2016.
• Vance opposed the Trump Administration’s efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare.
• Vance is opposed to providing childcare assistance to low income Americans and is opposed to expanding healthcare access to all Americans
• Vance supports placing restrictions on abortion access.
• Vance pushed Trump to nominate controversial figure Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
• Steve Bannon once called for Vance to become head of the Heritage Foundation and appears to have ties to Alex Jones
• In 2016, Vance Said “What Trump Offers Is An Easy Escape From The Pain” And That “Trump’s Promises Are The Needle In America’s Collective Vein.”

Since 2023, J.D. Vance has received an aggregate of $1,574,894.48 in total contributions for his re-election campaign. Vance transferred more than $160,000 from his fundraising committee and has also received hundreds of thousands of dollars from special interest groups including the National Association of Convenience Stores and the National Automobile Dealers Association. Vance has also received funding from corporations such as SpaceX, Honeywell, and Comcast. It should also be noted that Vance has accepted funding from Republican PACs and groups who may be considered out-of-touch with the current party, like Mitch McConnell and the Susan B. Anthony List. Further, Vance has begun to pay himself back for the loans he gave to his 2022 campaign, disbursing $700,000 in 2022 and an additional $614,500 in 2023. In 2022, Vance received an aggregate of $15,994,977.29 in total contributions for his campaign for the U.S. Senate. Vance personally loaned his campaign $1.4 million and received similarly large contributions from Republican-aligned committees including the RNC, the NRSC, and the Republican Jewish Coalition. Vance additionally received large contributions from corporations such as Altria, Nextera, and Marathon Petroleum. Of note, Vance received funding from establishment PACs and groups such as Koch Industries, as well as the leadership PACs of Roy Blunt, Lindsey Graham, and Mike Huckabee. It should also be noted that Vance has received thousands of dollars from individuals with a history of anti-Trump rhetoric like Ken Griffen and Paul Singer.

Individually, Vance has contributed an aggregate of $15,325 to federal and statewide campaign committees. Federally, Vance contributed $11,255, giving to various Republicans from Ohio including Rob Portman and Max Miller, as well as other prominent Republicans across the country such as Blake Masters and Joe Kent. At the state level, Vance has contributed $4,100 to campaign committees in the state of Ohio, giving it entirely to Sharon Kennedy’s campaign for the Ohio Supreme Court.