'Guy is toast': Vance roasted by ex-lawmakers as he tries to sell Trump's cuts
Vice President JD Vance got a round of roasting on MSNBC by former Reps. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) and Max Rose (D-NY) for his effort to sell President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill," even while he tiptoes around making any mention of the fact that the legislation — which he cast the tiebreaking vote for in the Senate — cuts around $1 trillion from Medicaid and provides little tax benefit to the voters he is trying to motivate.
"What I ask every single person to do is take what I've said — of course, go and do the research yourself, but go and talk to your neighbors, go and talk to your friends about what this bill does for American citizens, because we don't want to wake up in a year and a half and give the Democrats power back," said Vance at a recent event in Pennsylvania.
As Riggleman was swift to note, almost none of the bill's benefits flow to the voters he was talking to.
"I think the reason he's saying to go house to house — which I've even said in my disinformation campaigns, right? If there's disinformation, you got to go house to house, make sure you confront them — I think right now they're trying to convince people that this is good when it isn't," said Riggleman. "He is talking to people that are middle class, that work their butts off, and he's trying to get them to go house to house to explain to them how good the bill is. And they have no idea why it's good for them. They just don't, they don't understand it, because it isn't."
"I think that's the issue that you're having with JD Vance while they're trying to message this way," Riggleman continued. "Because right now, if he's saying that at this point, they've already lost the messaging."
Rose agreed with this assessment.
"What you just saw there is the great tragedy of JD Vance's 2028 presidential campaign," said Rose. "Here's a guy that has changed his name multiple times, changed his religion multiple times, changed his political loyalties to Donald Trump from I hate him to I love him. And now, somehow, he's going to figure out how he's got to try to figure out how to defend to the American people, why he decided to cut their health care and cut their pay and cut their benefits and close their ERs."
"The guy is toast," he added. "And by the way, who the hell wants a neighbor who's knocking on their door saying, hey, let me come and cheer Medicaid cuts to you? That sounds like the worst neighbor in the world."
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