In a blitz of media appearances on Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance took friendly fire from the hosts at Fox & Friends and Gutfeld!, and some not-so-friendly fire from the hosts of The View. On the surface, Vance was trying to drum up interest in his new book, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, which is about his conversion to Catholicism. What ended up happening, though, was an advertisement aimed at Christian Republicans who feel alienated from the party by its more sensationalist wing.During his roughly half-hour appearance on The View, a daytime show hosted by a group of women whom President Donald Trump has often called “degenerates,” Vance’s Christian beliefs came into question when host Sara Haines asked, “What are you willing to excuse in the name of power?”
In response, Vance said it took personal humility to admit that he had originally been wrong about Trump.
“I would say fundamentally that one of the things I underappreciated about Donald Trump is that so many of the things that people said about him weren’t actually true,” he said.
Vance pointed to earlier media reporting on Trump that claimed the then-presidential candidate had called all Mexican immigrants “rapists,” and said such reports were simply untrue.
