Friend,
This week, as Republicans gathered in Wisconsin to formally nominate Donald Trump and JD Vance for President and Vice President, any notion that there would be a tone change in the GOP was quickly lost. A crowd of “MASS DEPORTATION NOW” signs filled the audience while Republican leaders stoked the same fears and divisions as ever.
My colleagues in Congress were right in the center of it.
Senator Tom Cotton used his time to support Trump’s work to “ban travel to America from terrorist-infested countries.” Representative Matt Gaetz was one of many speaking out against our LGBTQ+ community, saying we need to go back to a time when there were two genders. New York’s Representative Elise Stefanik stated that the former President would bring “moral leadership back to the White House.” It was hard to keep a straight face for that one.
Not only did their speeches enforce the Republican vision of the country as “us vs. them,” but they were also riddled with lies.
During his acceptance speech, Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance lauded the former President for being a man “not in the pocket of big business.” We know during his first term, Trump gave corporations the most significant tax cuts in decades and ballooned the national deficit doing so. And he’s committed to even more significant cuts if re-elected. During a fundraiser just last month, Donald Trump told a room of oil executives that it was in their best interest to raise $1 billion to support his re-election.
And the Presidential nominee couldn’t help himself—from international to domestic policy claims, he went from wild exaggerations to blatant lies.
My takeaway from the RNC could not be more apparent – the Republican Party will do and say whatever it takes to win back the White House and Congress with no accountability or sense of unity in sight.
We need to come together and do all we can to ensure this does not happen.
