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JD Vance says GOP tired of 'racist' label
The gist
Vice President JD Vance told the GOP midterm convention Republicans were 'tired of being called racist.'
The speech echoes Tucker Carlson and is read as a 2028 positioning move.
How it unfolded
- 2018 -12Tucker Carlson told his Fox News audience immigration makes the country 'poorer, and dirtier, and more divided' and aired footage of migrant caravans in Mexico.
- Jul 1, 2021The day he announced his Senate campaign, Vance went on Carlson's Fox program and said he was running so his kids would not grow up in a country 'much poorer... much dirtier... much uglier.'
- Sep 10, 2026Vance used his keynote on the final night of the GOP midterm convention in Dallas to say voters were 'tired of being called racist for noticing that our country was becoming dirtier and poorer and less safe and less prosperous.'