Christie: JD Vance Is a ‘Disgrace’

“You not only have to question the judgement of a man who would take a woman — an elderly woman, out of the car she was living in out of the parking lot in a church in Pennsylvania with her cats and put her in front of a video camera, and make that a TV ad in the gubernatorial race. We know what Vivek Ramaswamy is, and voters have judged him as such. But here is the real problem going forward. J.D. Vance stood 100 percent with Vivek Ramaswamy. Not only as a person and a candidate, but he stood behind that advertisement. And Vivek Ramaswamy will be forgotten. He is going to be sent to the dustbin of history. But J.D. Vance is going to be remembered, I think, for this campaign, for more than anything else, he stood by that ad, a man who wrote a book on Catholicism, stood behind that ad. It’s a disgrace.”

— Former Gov. Chris Christie (R), on ABC News.

JD Vance, the Unconstitutional Catholic

“Trump might have moved on, and Vance, a relatively recent convert to Catholicism, would have been able to stay out of a dustup between his president and his spiritual leader. But no. Vance just had to speak up. He could have taken his cues from John F. Kennedy or Mario Cuomo, Catholic politicians who were careful to note that their faith was personal and important to them, but that in their public life, they must govern as Americans according to the Constitution. … Vance decided on a different approach: The pope, he implied, wasn’t a very good, or very smart, Catholic.”

— Tom Nichols