VALDOSTA, Georgia — Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), former President Donald Trump’s running mate, told Breitbart News exclusively that despite Democrats’ message of “joy” around their new candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, the truth is their message is actually “dark and ominous.” Democrats, of course, used the word “joy” dozens of times at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) as they keep pushing the concept as a theme for Harris’s nascent campaign.
“About this joy thing, dude, the thing I don’t understand is they say they are joyful,” JD Vance said in an exclusive interview last week at the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office. “Yet you actually watch their convention, it’s actually pretty dark and ominous. Their entire pitch is not ‘we’re going to lower your gas prices, we’re going to lower your food prices, we’re going to bring back manufacturing jobs from China.’ They can’t say that because Kamala Harris hasn’t done that. Their entire argument is that if you vote for Donald Trump and you want to change the direction of this country, you’re a bad person. I think waging war on the citizens of your own country and saying they are bad people for their electoral choices, that’s not joyful — that’s very, very dark. And unfortunately, that’s where the Democratic Party is going. So they can talk about joy all they want, but I think most Americans who watched that convention didn’t see a whole lot of joy.”
When asked to contrast the two visions for the country, the Democrat vision and the Republican vision, Vance said the GOP vision he and Trump are offering is “very simple.”