A confident, articulate Sen. JD Vance took the vice-presidential debate stage at CBS News Tuesday night to assuage American doubts about reelecting Donald Trump. Balancing his own more pro-life position with a determination to present Trump’s abortion rhetoric as both moderate and pro-family, Vance may have successfully threaded a needle that Republican politicians, including his running mate, had previously failed to do.
“We’ve got to do so much better of a job at earning the American people’s trust back on this issue where they frankly just don’t trust us,” Vance said.
And I think that’s one of the things that Donald Trump and I are endeavoring to do. I want us, as a Republican Party, to be pro-family in the fullest sense of the word. I want us to support fertility treatments. I want us to make it easier for moms to afford to have babies. I want to make it easier for young families to afford a home so they can afford a place to raise that family. And I think there’s so much that we can do on the public policy front just to give women more options. …