{"id":155421,"date":"2026-07-17T08:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/155421\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T08:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:18:13","slug":"ben-shapiro-accuses-jd-vance-of-sounding-like-a-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/155421\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shapiro Accuses JD Vance Of Sounding Like A Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conservative media personality Ben Shapiro<\/a> revived his criticism of Vice President JD Vance<\/a> on Thursday, this time with a new twist.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tuned into Joe Rogan yesterday and heard Bernie Sanders<\/a>\u2019 economics, Barack Obama<\/a>\u2019s foreign policy, and Ro Khanna\u2019s conspiracy theories. And then I realized JD Vance was talking,\u201d Shapiro wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want a candidate in 2028 who doesn\u2019t mirror the Democrats<\/a> \u2014 and who can win. Mr. VP, this is not the way,\u201d he said of Vance, who is considered a leading contender for the GOP\u2019s 2028 presidential pick.<\/p>\n

\"BenBen Shapiro, here at Turning Point USA\u2019s AmericaFest last December, accused Vice President JD Vance of sounding like a Democrat during an appearance on Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast.<\/p>\n

OLIVIER TOURON via Getty Images<\/p>\n

During his sprawling conversation with Rogan, the vice president kept to the party line as he defended Trump<\/a> against allegations he was involved in Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s crimes, denounced socialism<\/a> and dismissed the idea Israel influenced the president\u2019s decision<\/a> to go to war with Iran.<\/p>\n

However, Vance also admitted the White House had \u201cscrewed up\u201d the release of Epstein files, claimed Republicans<\/a> have a \u201ccool problem,\u201d<\/a> and accused people within the Israeli government of \u201cmanipulating\u201d U.S. public opinion<\/a> in hopes of getting the war in Iran to go on \u201cindefinitely.\u201d<\/p>\n

Delving deeper into his criticism on YouTube,<\/a> Shapiro called Vance\u2019s podcast takes \u201cweird and concerning\u201d while suggesting the VP had strayed from true conservative values.<\/p>\n

\"\u201cI\u201cI want a candidate in 2028 who doesn\u2019t mirror the Democrats \u2014 and who can win,\u201d Shapiro said of Vance, a leading contender for the GOP\u2019s 2028 presidential pick, picture here July 8.<\/p>\n

Scott Olson via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a conservative. I have always been a conservative,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not evolving on my views or changing my fundamental principles because they are based on extremely basic fundamental truths about politics and human nature,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Shapiro previously questioned whether Vance<\/a> will be the right person to carry the MAGA mantle into 2028, accusing him of being too close with both Republicans\u2019 \u201cconspiratorial wing\u201d and its \u201clibertarian-minded\u201d side. The podcaster, who is an Orthodox Jew, has also sounded alarms about growing antisemitism in the party.<\/p>\n

But Shapiro\u2019s own influence in the right-wing world has cratered in recent years.<\/p>\n

While his outlet, The Daily Wire, was once one of the most popular publishers on Facebook<\/a> and his podcast topped the charts, its audience has shrunk dramatically<\/a> since its peak in 2023, forcing the site to undergo massive downsizing<\/a> and leaving the future of its business in a lurch.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conservative media personality Ben Shapiro revived his criticism of Vice President JD Vance on Thursday, this time with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[119],"tags":[72470,1390,3535,169,168,9840],"class_list":["post-155421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jd-vance","tag-ben-shapiro","tag-democratic-party","tag-j-d-vance","tag-james-david-vance","tag-jd-vance","tag-joe-rogan"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116934338683848160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}