WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 While President Donald Trump has struggled to settle on a way to address Americans\u2019 concerns about high costs, Vice President JD Vance on Thursday offered a more direct and empathetic message, saying, \u201cWe hear you\u201d and \u201cthere\u2019s a lot more work to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
But the American people need to have \u201ca little bit of patience,\u201d Vance said in remarks at an event hosted by Breitbart News.<\/p>\n
The vice president\u2019s remarks come as the White House grapples with how to speak to voters about the cost of living, an issue that emerged as a vulnerability for Republicans in this month\u2019s off-year elections in New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races.<\/p>\n
Vance said the Trump administration has \u201cmade incredible progress\u201d in tackling cost-of-living concerns as they worked to undo policies from former President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs much progress as we\u2019ve made, it\u2019s going to take a little bit of time for every American to feel that economic boom, which we really do believe is coming. We believe that we\u2019re on the front end of it,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n
Trump, whose tariffs have contributed to higher prices for many goods, has insisted that prices are down, pointing to gas and egg prices specifically. The president has said Democrats’ arguments about affordability during the election were \u201ca con job,\u201d and saying \u201cI don\u2019t want to hear about the affordability, because right now, we\u2019re much less.\u201d However, in recent days he has shifted his response, acknowledging that there is room for consumer prices to drop further.<\/p>\n
Vance addresses Republican infighting<\/p>\n
Vance was asked about recent high-profile rifts within Trump’s Make America Great Again coalition. Trump broke with one of his most loyal backers, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, over her complaints he was spending too much time on foreign policy and had dragged his feet on releasing files related to Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n
Trump also has been reluctant to disavow white nationalist Nick Fuentes and conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, who recently hosted Fuentes for a friendly interview, touching off turmoil on the right.<\/p>\n
Vance did not directly address the recent infighting, but said he thinks the debates within the party are healthy. \u201cIt\u2019s totally reasonable for the people who make up this coalition to argue,\u201d about issues, said Vance, who often publicly engages in online debates on his X account.<\/p>\n
But Trump’s MAGA coalition needs to remember, \u201cthat we have a lot more in common than we do not in common\u201d and that supporters are up against \u201ca radical leftist movement.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHave our debates \u2014 but focus on the enemy, so that we can win victories that matter for the American people,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n
The vice president and former senator said Republicans have to keep their coalition united, especially heading into next year’s midterm elections that determine control of Congress.<\/p>\n
He said the working class voters who elected Trump to the White House don’t necessarily turn out to vote in midterm elections and said Republicans need to motivate them.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s one of the lessons that we learned in Virginia and New Jersey is that when Donald Trump is not on the ballot, you\u2019ve got to give people something to actually believe in, something to be inspired by, to get out there and vote,\u201d Vance said. \u201cThey\u2019re not going to vote just because you have an \u2018R\u2019 next to your name.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 While President Donald Trump has struggled to settle on a way to address Americans\u2019 concerns…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":396133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,79,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-396132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115591450693230072","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}