Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) urged the Left to soften its rhetoric around former President Donald Trump at the Democratic National Convention, as he worried “crazy people are going to take actions into their own hands.”
Speaking to reporters in North Carolina on Wednesday, Vance reflected on Trump’s near brush with death last month and said even “Democrats recognize that when you say that the guy is an existential threat to American democracy, sometimes that means crazy people are going to take actions into their own hands.”
However, Trump’s running mate expressed concern that while polarizing rhetoric had dropped “a little bit” in the wake of the assassination attempt on the former president, Democrats are “trying to ramp the rhetoric back up” at this week’s DNC in Chicago.
The Ohio senator urged “my Democratic friends to maybe pump the brakes a little bit…
