‘I'm Just Disappointed With His Positions’: Ro Khanna Reacts To JD Vance Being Trump's Running Mate

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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) joined Cat Oriel on "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss former President Donald Trump picking Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) as his running mate.

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00:00A few days after the incident, you know, we had the RNC and their Vice President Donald

00:06Trump, former President Donald Trump announced his decision to pick Senator J.D. Vance.

00:11So I'm just curious your response to his selection.

00:14Look, I've known Senator Vance for many years.

00:16We've worked with Tim Ryan.

00:17We did a tour through Ohio with Silicon Valley leaders to invest in places left out.

00:24But I've been disappointed with his positions.

00:26It has nothing to do with him as a person, but his positions.

00:29I believe that a woman should have the right to control her own body, shouldn't have a

00:34ban on abortions nationwide after six weeks, which is his position.

00:40I disagree with him in his view that we should reduce legal immigration.

00:45I think we need immigrants to start businesses and startups and have Silicon Valley thrive.

00:51And many of the Silicon Valley leaders are supporting him, also believe in increasing

00:55legal immigration.

00:57I disagree with him in terms of massive corporate tax cuts.

01:00He wants to give the wealth, people already have wealth, more tax cuts.

01:04I want to invest in places that have been left out of globalization.

01:09So we just have two very different visions for the country.

01:13Those topics that you mentioned, are those what scare you the most about a potential

01:16second Trump presidency?

01:18Or is there anything else that frightens you about that possibility?

01:22Well, what frustrates me is that we're going to disappoint people with giving them false

01:27hope. I was in Johnstown, Pennsylvania and Franklin, Pennsylvania last week, and I

01:32introduced the modern steel bill.

01:34Here's how we have government financing with unions, with companies like Cleveland

01:39Cliffs or United Steel to build new modern steel plants in places that were

01:44deindustrialized, in places that were shafted.

01:47And that's what we should be doing in a bipartisan basis.

01:49And I've worked with Republicans to do that.

01:51And we work to do that with semiconductors.

01:53We should do it with steel, aluminum, drug manufacturing.

01:56Donald Trump, though, is just going to have tax cuts and he's just going to rail it

02:01against immigration. And that's not going to put factories in Johnstown.

02:04It's not going to put factories in Franklin, Pennsylvania.

02:07So what saddens me is these folks, really, they want something done.

02:12They're sick of the politicians sloganeering.

02:15They want real action and we need to deliver.

02:18And I just don't think the Trump fans agenda delivers.

‘I'm Just Disappointed With His Positions’: Ro Khanna Reacts To JD Vance Being Trump's Running Mate

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