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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/18/rnc-convention-usha-vance-maga-attacks/
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To be clear, this is disgusting. At the same time, there is no sorrow in seeing Vance get a taste of his own medicin
But he is catching hell from those deeply imbedded in the Trump MAGA camp
And Vance is a hypocrite!!
I hate the attacks on his wife, but I have no sympathy for them. Looking forward to Vance debating Harris, and other Indian American, on immigration
***Mod Edit: Archive link for the above (no paywall): https://archive.is/xjoBf
To be clear, this is disgusting. At the same time, there is no sorrow in seeing Vance get a taste of his own medicin
Sen. J.D. Vance spoke lovingly of his wife and her family on Wednesday when he accepted the Republican nomination as Donald Trump’s running mate, proudly telling delegates in the convention hall in Milwaukee that he was married to the daughter of South Asian immigrants, “people who genuinely have enriched this country in so many ways.”
But he is catching hell from those deeply imbedded in the Trump MAGA camp
But online, extremist supporters of Trump had already trained their attacks on Vance’s wife, Usha, over her Indian heritage, denigrating the couple, their mixed-race family and Usha Vance’s immigrant background.
Shortly after Trump announced Monday that Vance would be named as his running mate, far-right activist Jaden McNeil on X shared an undated picture of the Vances and their newborn child on a post captioned: “I’m sure this guy is going to be great on immigration.”
In a podcast in which he attacked the Vances, Nick Fuentes, an avowed white supremacist, repeated rhetoric often associated with the racist “great replacement theory” — a line of argument popular among the right-wing, white nationalist fringe that falsely claims that there is a plan to “replace” native-born White Americans with immigrants. Fuentes — who has also promoted antisemitism and who attended the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville in 2017 — said he doesn’t expect “the guy who has an Indian wife” to “support White identity.”
And Vance is a hypocrite!!
As a Senate nominee in 2022, Vance himself appeared to echo some of the rhetoric behind the “great replacement theory” as well as conspiracy theories about voter fraud when he claimed in an interview with Tucker Carlson that Democrats were hoping to win the midterm elections by replacing American voters and bringing in “a large number of new voters to replace the voters that are already here.” Vance was playing into fears about election fraud, though it is rare in the United States.
I hate the attacks on his wife, but I have no sympathy for them. Looking forward to Vance debating Harris, and other Indian American, on immigration
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