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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
JD Vance cracks that interviewer is an ‘a**hole' for calling him an ‘intellectual'
Vice President JD Vance jokingly slammed an interviewer as an 'a**hole' for calling him an 'intellectual' during an event hosted by the conservative think tank American Compass on Tuesday night. The Hillbilly Elegy author-turned-Donald Trump bulldog was being interviewed by the think tank's founder, Oren Cass, who worked on the presidential campaigns of the former Massachusetts governor and Utah senator, Mitt Romney, in 2008 and 2012. The think tank hosted its New World Gala in Washington D.C. on June 3. Cass noted that theYale Law School-grad Vance has written for the conservative magazine National Review in the past, when he was fiercely opposed to President Donald Trump. But Vance made a public turnaround and secured the president's endorsement as he ran for Senate in 2022, and was selected as his running mate last year. 'We are thrilled to have you here,' said Cass at the black-tie event. 'I am thrilled to have this opportunity to talk with you and so grateful that the work you're doing and, in a sense, so in awe of it because there are politicians out there who are – they've just been politicians.' 'But you are someone who was an intellectual first,' he added. 'Some people don't like the word 'intellectual.' But I mean it in the good sense of the term. You were writing for National Review. You were at the bar late at night arguing about and helping shape these ideas that you are now…' Vance interrupted to express sarcastic outrage at Cass's comments. 'I come here for free, and you insult me,' said Vance. 'And you call me 'an intellectual,' remind me that I wrote for National Review. What an a**hole this guy is!' he added to cheers and applause from the audience. 'That's fair. I will admit that I, too, wrote for National Review,' said Cass.
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Ahead of 2028, Vance, Rubio offer up a vision to the future of the GOP
Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered a preview of a post-Trump Republican Party on Tuesday at a gathering of many of those who in the coming years will be responsible for running it. No one at the black-tie conservative gathering mentioned '2028,' though it was an unmistakable undercurrent as the two featured speakers, who both hope to carry the Trump legacy into the future, laid out their respective visions. The affair was ostensibly a celebration of the brand of economic populism that's taken hold in the Republican Party under President Donald Trump. But American Compass' 'New World Gala' at Washington's National Building Museum was really a forum for laying the intellectual groundwork for a MAGA movement once the president leaves office. 'This is not a five, a 10 — this is a 20-year project to actually get America back to common-sense economic policy,' Vance said. Rubio, who spoke first, noted that that the country was in the 'midst of an important and long overdue realignment.' 'This is going to be the work of a generation,' he told the relatively young audience. 'There's still much work to be done.' Vance and Rubio — who lavished praise on one another — offered similar assessments of the current state of the country and where they hope to take it. Both spoke of reindustrialization, of an America First approach to economic and foreign policy and the role the next generation will play. The two men — who Trump has said would both make good successors — used their time to outline a break from the pre-Trump era they argued did not focus enough on middle-class needs and neglected the nation's manufacturing sector, leaving the country reliant on foreign adversaries and vulnerable to national security risks. 'You can never be secure as a nation unless you're able to feed your people, and unless you're able to make the things that your economy needs in order to function and ultimately to defend yourself,' Rubio said. Vance said it's why Trump was elected, adding that the president is the 'first mainstream American politician to come along and say, 'this isn't working.'' Their remarks were filled with appeals to GOP voters who will in the coming years choose a new standard-bearer for the America First movement. And while the Republican candidates will likely embrace an era of conservatism shaped by Trump, they will spend the next several years working to bring long-lasting structure to the party and unity among intellectually diverse factions. Neither mentioned the GOP megabill, the top legislative priority for the administration, some of which is at odds with the brand of economic populism espoused by American Compass. The legislation, which already passed the House, could cause millions of low-income Americans to lose their health insurance and cut funding for food assistance programs. It also offers tax breaks to top earners, while American Compass and others in the movement have unsuccessfully urged the administration to raise rates on corporations and high-earners. Vance, who sat for a Q&A with Oren Cass, founder of American Compass, sought to unify intellectually diverse factions inside the Republican party, a feat of coalition building that has helped Trump win three successive nominations. Vance did much the same in March when he spoke at a high-profile gathering of right-leaning tech figures to bring together the tech right and the populist right. And he leaned into populist rhetoric, as he said he wants 'normal people who work hard and play by the rules to have a good life.' 'Most of our fellow Americans, they're not nearly as dumb as Washington, D.C., assumes they are,' Vance said. 'They are actually very smart.' Rubio's speech had a more academic flare as he argued that the Cold War resulted in countries, including the United States, abandoning nationhood — across economic, immigration and foreign policy. 'Every single nation state we interact with prioritizes their national interest in their interactions with us,' Rubio said. 'And we need to begin to do that again. And we're beginning to do that again.' Vance is seen by many in the America First movement as the heir to MAGA, a position he's solidified with his full-throated backing of the president and his policies. In the Conservative Political Action Conference's annual straw poll earlier this year, Vance captured over 60 percent of the vote. And in a YouGov poll from April, among Republicans, 69 percent said Vance was someone they would consider voting for in the 2028 primary. Rubio polled at 34 percent.
Politico
6 days ago
- Business
- Politico
Ahead of 2028, Vance, Rubio offer up a vision to the future of the GOP
Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered a preview of a post-Trump Republican Party on Tuesday at a gathering of many of those who in the coming years will be responsible for running it. No one at the black-tie conservative gathering mentioned '2028,' though it was an unmistakable undercurrent as the two featured speakers, who both hope to carry the Trump legacy into the future, laid out their respective visions. The affair was ostensibly a celebration of the brand of economic populism that's taken hold in the Republican Party under President Donald Trump. But American Compass' 'New World Gala' at Washington's National Building Museum was really a forum for laying the intellectual groundwork for a MAGA movement once the president leaves office. 'This is not a five, a 10 — this is a 20-year project to actually get America back to common-sense economic policy,' Vance said. Rubio, who spoke first, noted that that the country was in the 'midst of an important and long overdue realignment.' 'This is going to be the work of a generation,' he told the relatively young audience. 'There's still much work to be done.' Vance and Rubio — who lavished praise on one another — offered similar assessments of the current state of the country and where they hope to take it. Both spoke of reindustrialization, of an America First approach to economic and foreign policy and the role the next generation will play. The two men — who Trump has said would both make good successors — used their time to outline a break from the pre-Trump era they argued did not focus enough on middle-class needs and neglected the nation's manufacturing sector, leaving the country reliant on foreign adversaries and vulnerable to national security risks. 'You can never be secure as a nation unless you're able to feed your people, and unless you're able to make the things that your economy needs in order to function and ultimately to defend yourself,' Rubio said. Vance said it's why Trump was elected, adding that the president is the 'first mainstream American politician to come along and say, 'this isn't working.'' Their remarks were filled with appeals to GOP voters who will in the coming years choose a new standard-bearer for the America First movement. And while the Republican candidates will likely embrace an era of conservatism shaped by Trump, they will spend the next several years working to bring long-lasting structure to the party and unity among intellectually diverse factions. Neither mentioned the GOP megabill, the top legislative priority for the administration, some of which is at odds with the brand of economic populism espoused by American Compass. The legislation, which already passed the House, could cause millions of low-income Americans to lose their health insurance and cut funding for food assistance programs. It also offers tax breaks to top earners, while American Compass and others in the movement have unsuccessfully urged the administration to raise rates on corporations and high-earners. Vance, who sat for a Q&A with Oren Cass, founder of American Compass, sought to unify intellectually diverse factions inside the Republican party, a feat of coalition building that has helped Trump win three successive nominations. Vance did much the same in March when he spoke at a high-profile gathering of right-leaning tech figures to bring together the tech right and the populist right. And he leaned into populist rhetoric, as he said he wants 'normal people who work hard and play by the rules to have a good life.' 'Most of our fellow Americans, they're not nearly as dumb as Washington, D.C., assumes they are,' Vance said. 'They are actually very smart.' Rubio's speech had a more academic flare as he argued that the Cold War resulted in countries, including the United States, abandoning nationhood — across economic, immigration and foreign policy. 'Every single nation state we interact with prioritizes their national interest in their interactions with us,' Rubio said. 'And we need to begin to do that again. And we're beginning to do that again.' Vance is seen by many in the America First movement as the heir to MAGA, a position he's solidified with his full-throated backing of the president and his policies. In the Conservative Political Action Conference's annual straw poll earlier this year, Vance captured over 60 percent of the vote. And in a YouGov poll from April, among Republicans, 69 percent said Vance was someone they would consider voting for in the 2028 primary. Rubio polled at 34 percent.
Daily Mail
7 days ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Inside the 'cool' new Republican group attracting JD Vance, Marco Rubio and younger Trump potential successors
A young conservative organization in Washington, D.C., is celebrating a milestone and hosting Vice President JD Vance as it tries to map out the future for the MAGA movement and the Republican Party. The nonprofit organization American Compass is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a special 'New World Gala' at the National Building Museum. The organization, founded in 2020, is working for Republicans to think differently on policy questions, including by grabbing the third rail of sacrosanct political principles that have traditionally been the core ideals of the conservative movement. In Washington, political think tanks tend to excel after they win the attention of powerful interests. Policy nerds and former Congressional staffers also win new status in the city after they are lifted up into the spotlight and many get employed to put their ideas into practice. In just five years, the group has acquired significant influence in the Republican Party. In 2023, then-Senator JD Vance appeared at a forum sponsored by the organization and celebrated the 'familiar' and 'bright smiling faces' in the room. Vance and some of his political staff are tied to the organization as they pursue new policy ideas as an 'unconventional' Republican. Rather than just getting government out of the way of the markets, Vance has argued for using taxes and subsidies to incentivize better behavior for businesses. 'Let's tax the things we want to see less of and lets subsidize the things we want to see more of,' he argued, clarifying he did not want to see a 'larger federal government' but wanted a more efficient government that responded to it's citizens. In the same speech, he criticized 'all the woke bulls****,' going on in American businesses earning him a few laughs from the audience. The organization credits Vance and his policies for lifting up their status in Washington. 'No figure in American politics has more effectively advocated for American families and workers than Vice President JD Vance,' American Compass communications director Theresa Braid said to the Daily Mail. She cited Vance's work in the Senate and the White House as well as his book Hillbilly Elegy, which chronicles the struggles that working class voters in America face. 'Vice President Vance has led the charge to speak for the Americans that our elites have forgotten,' she continued. 'It is an honor to have him join our celebration of the movement that he has helped build.' Other prominent Republicans on the right who are connected with the group include Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Senators Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Todd Young of Ohio, Jim Banks from Indiana and Bernie Moreno from Ohio. Together they describe themselves as 'The New Right' and focus intently on the goal of building a movement that focuses on building American families, a stronger American workforce, and a more purposeful economic policy. The organization is trying to nurture an intellectual and policy centric MAGA movement in D.C. to back President Donald Trump's political movement that reshaped the Republican Party almost entirely based off his experience in business and gut instinct. The organization was founded by former Mitt Romney aide Oren Cass who continues to promote the idea that policy should be focused on the American citizens first instead of focusing entirely on the growth and expansion of free markets. Cass appeared on the Daily Show to defend Trump's economic policies despite the chaotic nature of his presidency, asserting that Republicans were focused on policies that would help strengthen communities and first. 'I have a great deal of hope that as that moves to be the center of the party, you really are going to see a different Republican party that still loves markets and wants them to work, but has a much better understanding of their limitation, has much more concern for what is happening to typical working families and wants to figure out how to keep their conservative principles but apply them somehow to use public policy and make things better,' he explained to Stewart. Cass expressed optimism that 'the policy wonks, researchers, writers, journalists, lawyers, folks sort of 40 and under,' were 'overwhelmingly oriented' to a new way of thinking. The group briefly employed Sen. Marco Rubio's prominent chief of staff Michael Needham in 2024 before he left in 2025 to rejoin Rubio at the State Department. Needham got his start at the prominent Heritage foundation think tank which helped fuel conservative ideology and shake up the Republican establishment in Washington, DC during the Tea Party era. The fledgling group American Compass has already sparked opposition from other conservative non-profit organizations in Washington, DC who have spent decades defending Reagan-era policies the ideas of free markets, free trade, and tax cuts. Cass is now promoting his new book: The New Conservatives: Restoring America's Commitment to Family, Community, and Industry which outlines some of the organization's biggest ideas for the country.
