Violence has already marked one event in the Republican campaign this year. When J.D. Vance held his first campaign rally as the new Republican vice presidential candidate on Monday, a well-meaning party member greeted him.
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- J.D. Vance held his first campaign rally as the Republican vice presidential candidate in his hometown of Middletown, Ohio.
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About life in this small town in the American Rust Belt, J.D. Vance wrote “Hillbilly Elegy,” which became a political phenomenon in 2016.
It was about growing up rough in a dysfunctional, poor family in a city that had been, he says, “bleeding jobs and hope” for decades.
Great atmosphere in your hometown
Twenty-one years after graduating from high school, J.D. Vance returned to Middletown High School on Monday. There, he wrote, he held his first solo campaign event as the Republican vice presidential candidate. AFP News.
With the son back in his place, the mood was high in a small Ohio town.
“Many of you know my family story. Probably half of you are related to me,” the Ohio senator said, closing his eyes to the large, enthusiastic crowd.
According to the tabloid newspaper New York Post The event seemed more like a “victory march than an election campaign kickoff.”
Senator: Civil War If We Lose
One of Vance's warmongers was state Senator George Lang, and less than an hour before the vice presidential candidate took the stage, he urged the crowd to fight.
“If it ends in a civil war, we will be the last ones standing,” Lang said to cheers from the hall.
He added: If we lose the elections, I fear that there will be a need for a civil war to save the country.
The remarks came less than two weeks after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was the victim of an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in neighboring Pennsylvania.
In the wake of the shooting, politicians on both sides have promised calmer rhetoric.
It seems that today's protagonist did not like his party mate Lang.
From the stage, Vance praised several local Republicans, but did not mention Lang by name.
Unsurprisingly, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris's campaign staff was more forthcoming about their take on the remarks.
They accuse Trump and Vance of divisive rhetoric and urge them to apologize for Lang's statement.
“Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are running a campaign spewing hate and vowing revenge on their political rivals. That’s why Republicans feel like they can predict civil war when they present it,” she said in a statement.
It must have been moved away.
Shortly after the election rally, an apparently repentant offender retracted the statements he had made “in the heat of battle.” X.
“We all have to think about what we say in politics, and I do,” Lang writes.
– Sen. Vance agrees with President Trump on the need to unite the country, and is pleased that Sen. Lang has retracted his comments, according to Vance's press secretary, Taylor Van Kirk.
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