{"id":188962,"date":"2026-08-14T16:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T16:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/188962\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T16:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T16:36:17","slug":"jd-vance-says-the-gop-needs-to-realize-why-young-people-are-turning-to-socialism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/188962\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance says the GOP needs to realize why young people are turning to socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Vice President JD Vance said that the GOP needs to be weary of blaming young people for being <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/bill-maher-slams-democratic-socialists-as-more-far-left-candidates-continue-to-get-elected-michigan-wisconsin-vermont-new-york\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/bill-maher-slams-democratic-socialists-as-more-far-left-candidates-continue-to-get-elected-michigan-wisconsin-vermont-new-york\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">drawn to socialism<\/a>, arguing that some Republicans are part of the problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy warning to my fellow Republicans would be: If we don\u2019t get this right, don\u2019t blame young people for being sympathetic to socialism,\u201d he said on \u201cThe Will Cain Show\u201d on Thursday. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to blame ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vance\u2019s statement comes as more far-left candidates win primary elections in different states.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, progressive Democratic Michigan candidate Abdul El-Sayed <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/politics\/progressive-abdul-el-sayed-wins-michigan-senate-primary-testing-democrats-midterm-plan-socialist-candidate\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/politics\/progressive-abdul-el-sayed-wins-michigan-senate-primary-testing-democrats-midterm-plan-socialist-candidate\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">won the primary for U.S. Senate.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even though he isn\u2019t a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, he has likened himself to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>Vance said that while socialism is a dangerous ideology, he said that the GOP is ignoring economic concerns of young people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say to that young person that you as an American citizen deserve to have a good life in this country, and you deserve to have a government that is making it easier for you to start a family, for you to afford to get a good education, for you to have a good job, for you to afford a home,\u201d Vance said, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/14\/us-news\/jd-vance-warns-republicans-not-to-blame-young-americans-for-the-appeal-of-socialism\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/14\/us-news\/jd-vance-warns-republicans-not-to-blame-young-americans-for-the-appeal-of-socialism\/\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to the New York Post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the main concerns of young voters is housing prices. Vance said on \u201cThe Will Cain Show\u201d that under the Trump administration, saying that housing prices have stabilized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re seeing trillions of dollars of new investment into this country, which means good, middle-class jobs for young people, middle-income people all across our country,\u201d Vance stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Vice President JD Vance said that the GOP needs to be weary of blaming young&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[119],"tags":[4704,1331,84780,169,168,35253,1076,869,22596],"class_list":["post-188962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jd-vance","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-gop","tag-housing-prices","tag-james-david-vance","tag-jd-vance","tag-primary-elections","tag-republicans","tag-socialism","tag-young-voters"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/117094841242384384","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188962","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=188962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}