Donald Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance called for a reduction in heated political rhetoric a day after the former president was apparently targeted for assassination for the second time in as many months.
Speaking at the Georgia Faith and Freedom Coalition dinner in Atlanta on Monday, Vance said he would “do my part” to tone down the rhetoric. He also said Democrats cannot call Trump a “threat to democracy” and “a fascist” and expect that violence would not follow, because “some crazy person” decides “to take matters into their own hands.”
Trump has in recent weeks regularly called Democratic nominee Kamala Harris a “communist” and a “fascist” — ideologies at the opposite ends of the left-right political spectrum. He’s also said Harris and Democrats are threats to democracy.
Vance allowed that conservatives do not “always get things exactly right” in their rhetoric. But he argued that two assassination attempts against Trump prove that Democrats are worse. “No one has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last couple of months,” Vance said.
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