J.D. Vance Takes Up the Populist Torch Despised by GOP Establishment

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Months before announcing his Ohio Senate bid, Vance blamed corporate donors for waves of illegal immigration year after year in an interview with Breitbart News.
44% : Le Pen, like Trump, has routinely broken political orthodoxy with aggressive populist platforms that have featured tariffs, fast deportations, environmental conservation, and preservation of national heritage.
43% : In his 1996 run, one Texas Republican declared that Buchanan's opposition to free trade was "a dagger aimed at the heart of everything we stand for in the world."Buchanan, at the time, went after Bob Dole for having "put the interests of the big banks ahead of the interests of American workers."
32% : As Breitbart News reported, Vance's position that tariffs on foreign imports ought to be used to reshore America's manufacturing base made him an enemy of the Club for Growth, which has promoted a free trade agenda for decades.

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