JD Vance Acknowledges He’s Lost Friends Over Trump Support After Casting Ballot In Ohio: ‘I Think That’s a Tragedy’

Senator JD Vance (R-OH), the Republican nominee for vice president, addressed the press after casting his ballot for Donald Trump and himself on Tuesday and, in a somewhat somber moment, acknowledged that he’s lost friends over his support for Trump.

After fielding a question that wasn’t picked up by the mics, Vance offered a clue as to its contents by beginning his answer this way:

You know, my most important message is we ought to argue, disagree about, Persuade each other about politics — That’s that’s part of the natural process. But we can’t discard friends and we can’t discard family members. I think that if we all just recognize this basic principle that we ought to love people, we ought to be friends with people, we ought to be family members with people regardless of their politics. That would do a lot to heal the division.

“I know myself, I’ve had a lot of friends — not a lot — I’ve had a few friends who have cast their friendship aside because I decided that I wanted Donald J. Trump to be the winner in the last election, in this election. I think that’s a tragedy, and I’m not going to follow that example,” he continued. “I’d say to everybody, whether you’re voting for Donald Trump or voting for Kamala Harris, remember friends and family, that stuff is what really, really matters. We ought to be kind to one another, we ought to treat each other with respect.

“And fundamentally, what we’re trying to do, President Trump and I, is just build the kind of country where our fellow Americans can achieve their dreams. But that’s all of our fellow Americans, regardless of who they vote for,” concluded Vance.

Prior to expressing his support for Trump ahead of the 2020 presidential election, Vance worried that Trump could be America’s Hitler, accused him of being serial sexual predator, and mused that “Trump makes people I care about afraid.”

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