As the 2024 presidential race starts to heat up and get going, the endorsements that go with it are starting too. Leading the pack this month was Ohio Senator JD Vance, who threw his support behind Trump in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, saying:
“Bipartisan foreign policy consensus has led the country astray many times. Leadership in both parties supported the invasion of Iraq, the decadeslong nation-building project in Afghanistan, regime change in Libya and guerrilla war in Syria. All of these policies cost a lot of money and killed many. None of those conflicts has served the nation’s long-term interest. Very few were ever challenged by a leader of national significance.
“That is, of course, until Donald Trump came along. American partisans view Mr. Trump’s record primarily through a domestic lens. To my fellow Republicans, Mr. Trump lowered taxes and worked hard to deregulate the federal bureaucracy. To Democrats, Mr. Trump was a corrupt narcissist who earned his two impeachments. Yet neither party acknowledges perhaps the most important part of Mr. Trump’s legacy: his successful foreign policy.”
Continuing, Vance differentiated Trump from the Uniparty politicians, pointing out that Trump hadn’t started any foreign wars, unlike the string of presidents before him, and that Trump stood strong and stood up to both the GOP and Democrats when they demanded he do so, saying:
My entire adult lifetime has been shaped by presidents who threw America into unwise wars and failed to win them. I had just started high school when George W. Bush was elected president, and his presidency is the first I remember with any detail. Mr. Bush allowed a just war in Afghanistan to turn into a nation-building quagmire and then started an unjust war in Iraq. His successor, Barack Obama, doubled down on nation building in Afghanistan and launched a new war of his own in Libya, with the enthusiastic support of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
In Mr. Trump’s four years in office, he started no wars despite enormous pressure from his own party and even members of his own administration.
And so, because President Trump was willing to buck the trend and reject the Uniparty, Senator Vance threw his support behind him for 2024, saying:
Donald Trump’s presidency marked the first real disruption to a failed consensus and the terrible consequences it wrought. That fact, more than any single accomplishment, is the enduring legacy of Mr. Trump’s first term. But there is much more to do, and I’m supporting him for president in 2024 because he’s the only person certain to do it.
Vance’s mobe to back Trump because Trump backed him in April of 2022, saying “I’ve studied this race closely and I think J.D. is the most likely to take out the weak, but dangerous, Democrat opponent.”
That endorsement put Vance in the lead and now, unlike the backstabbing RINOs that took Trump’s endorsements and then worked to destroy him, Vance is paying him back by supporting him early.
By: Will Tanner. Follow me on Twitter @Will_Tanner_1
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