Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance, who is disgraced former President Donald Trump’s running mate, has removed his staunch anti-abortion stance from his Senate campaign website.
A report by The Daily Beast said his move suggests a shift away from his previously firm “100% pro-life” position, which included statements like “abortion has turned our society into a place where we see children as an inconvenience.”
Vince is on record in support of a nationwide ban on abortion without exceptions for rape or incest.
He justified this radical position by stating that, “two wrongs don’t make a right.”
Removing Vance’s anti-abortion policy from his website reflects a broader Republican strategy to downplay controversial issues that could invite a potential defeat in November.
Trump has distanced himself from the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, the comprehensive agenda for a second Trump presidency that explicitly describes plans to make life more difficult for immigrants, working people, and other groups that have been disadvantaged in American history.
The plan aims to promote conservative and right-wing policies to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power if Trump wins the 2024 presidential election.
Project 2025 asserts that the entire executive branch is under the direct control of the president under the unitary executive theory.
It proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of federal civil service workers as political appointees, in order to replace them with people loyal to the president.
Proponents argue it would dismantle what they view as a vast, unaccountable, and liberal government bureaucracy.[10] The Project seeks to infuse the government and society with conservative Christian values.
Critics have characterized the radical GOP agenda as an authoritarian, Christian nationalist, plan to steer the US toward autocracy.
Legal experts have said it would undermine the rule of law, separation of powers, separation of church and state, and civil liberties.
While Trump claims that he is unaware of the scheme, nearly two-thirds of Heritage Foundation’s 2015 proposals were attempted by Trump during his first term and the latest version was developed by a constellation of conservative groups run by Trump allies.
Yet, while the overt efforts to hide or disguise the disruptive consequences of the intended policy goals is taking place in plain sight, but almost half of American voters are still supporting the candidate who is the only president who was convicted of a crime.