J.D. Vance hints at tension between him and Donald Trump: 'I've learned my lesson'
Trump broke with his running mate on the issue of abortion at Tuesday's debate
Sen. J.D. Vance says he won't try to speak for Donald Trump in the future after the vice presidential nominee expressed a contradicting viewpoint on a federal abortion ban.
The admission came after a moment at Tuesday's debate where the former president broke with his running mate and said they have not yet discussed a veto on banning abortion at a national level.
'I think that I've learned my lesson on speaking for the president before he and I have actually talked about an issue,' Vance said in an interview with Meet the Press host Kristen Welker on Sunday morning.
The Ohio Senator said his point last month was to reiterate that Trump has been clear he does not support the idea of a national ban – but that he also thinks the issue would never cross his desk because it wouldn't get through Congress in the first place.
Asked at the debate with Vice President Kamala Harris in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Tuesday if he would veto a bill putting a federal ban on abortions, Trump was noncommittal.
@JDVance said Donald Trump would veto a national abortion ban.
But on the debate stage, Trump said he “wouldn’t have to” and that he and Vance had not discussed it.
Vance now tells MTP, “I’ve learned my lesson on speaking for the president.”
'I won't have to,' he insisted.
But when the ABC debate moderator Linsey Davis pressed him on Vance's remarks just weeks earlier, the ex-president broke with his running mate
'I didn't discuss it with J.D. in all fairness,' Trump said on stage. 'J.D. – and I don't mind if he has a certain view – but I think he was speaking for me. But I really didn't.'
Harris's campaign hopped on Vance's latest remarks as proof that Trump would actually veto the ban – despite the senator repeatedly claiming to the contrary.
'Donald Trump and JD Vance are running on the most extreme, anti-choice ticket in history,' Harris-Walz 2024 spokesperson Sarafina Chitik wrote in a statement on the interview.
'Today's admission from Vance is the latest proof of what voters already know: Trump and Vance will implement their Project 2025 playbook to ban abortion nationwide the minute they get the chance,' she added. 'Trump and Vance can say whatever suits them, but their records speak louder than their lies – voters will hold them accountable this November.'
Vance said in an August interview with Welker that he 'thinks' Trump would not sign a bill regulating pregnancy terminations at the national level. And he reiterated on Sunday that a 'national abortion ban is not on the table.'
'I think he's been clear, he wouldn't support it. I mean he said that explicitly,' the Republican vice presidential nominee said last month.
(Vance stay out of the abortion swampboth sides will drag you down, its never enough)
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