As the race for the White House heats up with less than three months until Election Day, one prominent Republican from Mississippi has weighed in on GOP nominee Donald Trump’s decision to choose JD Vance as his running mate.
Trent Lott, who served as majority leader (1996-2001) and minority leader (2001-2003) of the U.S. Senate, took to The Gallo Show recently to discuss Vance’s rapid rise from junior senator to Trump running mate. Lott said he overall approves of the pick but vouched that Vance is going to have to “take a serious look” at his checkered past when it comes to foreign policy and defense.
“He is smart. He is articulate. But some of his positions have been questionable,” Lott said. “He’s going to have to take a serious look at what his support is for President Trump with regard to foreign policy and defense issues where he’s been a little shaky. I think he will be fine, but like all of us, you have to grow and learn.”
The focal point of Lott’s criticism of Vance is the Ohio senator’s outspoken position on the war between Russia and Ukraine. Vance, an avid critic of giving additional aid to Ukraine, is on record saying he is not concerned with what happens if Russia overtakes its westward neighbor and would rather utilize U.S. taxpayer dollars to curb illegal immigration through the southern border.
“I’ve got to be honest with you. I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another,” Vance said during an appearance on Steve Bannon’s War Room before he was tabbed as Trump’s running mate. “I do care about the fact that in my community right now, the leading cause of death among 18 to 45-year-olds is Mexican fentanyl that’s coming across the southern border. I’m sick of Joe Biden focusing on the border of a country I don’t care about while he lets the border of his own country become a total war zone.”
Trent Lott served stints as majority and minority leader while in Congress from 1973-2007.
Lott disagrees with the VP hopeful’s rhetoric and
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