Vance Has Missed All Senate Votes Since Joining Ticket

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports:

Since becoming Donald Trump’s vice-presidential running mate in July, U.S. Sen. JD Vance hasn’t cast a single vote in Congress.

The 42 votes the Cincinnati Republican missed while on the campaign trail for Trump were mostly to confirm federal appointees but they also included measures to expand the child tax credit, create a right to in-vitro fertilization, and to extend government funding and avoid a partial government shutdown.

From April until June, Vance missed nearly a fifth of all votes (22 percent). The freshman senator, who has only served in his elected position since January 2023, has never seen one of his sponsored bills passed by Congress.

Read the full article. It’s not unusual for VP nominees to miss votes in the final months of the campaign, but Vance has missed key votes on the very issues that he and Trump are campaigning on.

JD Vance has missed every U.S. Senate vote since becoming Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate https://t.co/FgSOMMkgiK

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