
(ConservativeFreePress.com) – Obama’s former senior adviser David Axelrod stated on Sunday that the response of Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) to the shooting at Trump’s rally should have him be disqualified from the position of vice president.
In a post on the platform X, formerly known as Twitter, Axelrod pointed out that Vance is on former President Donald Trump’s shortlist for vice president, but that his recent tweet only hours after the assassination attempt during a rally in Pennsylvania should have him disqualified by the Trump campaign.
Vance, who at the time was considered a top contender in Trump’s running mate shortlist, had taken to social media on Saturday to claim that the shooting had not been an “isolated incident” and as he had argued the campaign of President Joe Biden was at least partly to blame. He further claimed that one of the central premises of the Biden campaign was that former President Donald Trump was “an authoritarian fascist” who needed to be stopped at any cost, which is the type of rhetoric that had directly contributed to the assassination attempt.
Axelrod slammed Vance for this response and argued that this was the “wrong vibe” at the time. He also suggested that it was possible that the Trump administration would not be interested in a running mate who shared such polarizing sentiments. He added that according to the information they now have the gunman’s profile does not fit the premise formed by Vance. He added that Trump most likely did not “want a shoot-from-the-hip VP.”
This post came after what officials had called an assassination attempt.
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