Problems 'caused by broken leadership' bigger than 'any foreign threat'

Vice presidential candidate Senator JD Vance (R-Ohio) defended former President Trump’s comments suggesting the use of military force on Election Day to Fight “the enemy within” in one interview with NBC News published on Saturday.

“Well, I think what Donald Trump said is that these people are a greater threat to the peace and security of the United States because America is strong enough to face any foreign adversary,” Vance told Kristen Welker, presenter of Meet the Press.

“What he said, and I agree with that, is that our biggest threat is not a foreign adversary because we can handle these guys; we can handle foreign conflicts,” Vance added before mentioning former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D).

“Under Nancy Pelosi’s long life in public leadership, the United States has gone from being the world’s preeminent industrial power to second only to China,” Vance said.

His criticism of the California representative signals a larger battle between the Republican and Democratic parties to secure razor-thin races in the final days before the general election.

“That fundamentally falls on Nancy Pelosi’s shoulders, and if we want to have a more prosperous country, we have to recognize that our own leadership is the reason why we lost our industrial base to China,” Vance said.

Pelosi has publicly shared her own criticism of the senator, including recently questioning his comments through a personal connection to reproductive rights during the vice presidential debate.

Trump has faced with control because he said in an interview with Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo that the greater threat to the country than foreign adversaries was “people from within.” He added that any unrest from his critics after the election “should be handled very easily by, if necessary, by the National Guard, or, if really necessary, by the military, because they cannot let that happen.”

Trump has since doubled down on his comments despite the criticism.

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