During a campaign event in North Carolina on Monday, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) said that Vice President Kamala Harris is “the biggest threat to religious liberty we’ve had in at least a generation.”
The remarks from Vance came during a “Believers and Ballots” event in Charlotte. During his speech, Vance also said that the Biden administration was an “opponent” of individual freedoms.
“Now let’s just run through a number of ways in which the Kamala Harris administration has been a chief opponent of freedom of conscience, of free speech, and of religious liberty in this country,” Vance said.
“Number one, Kamala Harris — despite the fact that she says that she stands for working people, despite the fact that you know her running mate has this slogan, we believe in America that people ought to mind their own damn business — both of them pursued policies that would have people fired for refusing to take the COVID vaccine shot,” he continued.
Vance was referencing the Biden administration’s mandate for federal workers to receive the vaccine while it sought to combat the COVID-19 virus. It also sought to push the mandate into the private sector, requiring private employers to institute vaccine-or-test requirements.
The Supreme Court later blocked the mandate while keeping it in place for certain healthcare sites.
The remarks from Vance follow a recent trend of religious concerns being brought up by the Republican ticket.
Over the weekend, Former President Donald Trump suggested that “Jewish people would have a lot to do” with his loss if Harris beats him in November.
“In my opinion, the Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss, if I’m at 40 percent,” Trump said while speaking at an event called “Fighting Antisemitism.”
“If I don’t win this election — and Jewish people would have a lot to do with that, 60 percent are voting for the enemy — Israel will cease to exist in two years,” Trump said. “I believe I’m 100 percent right. … If I do win, Israel will be safe and secure, and we’ll stop the toxic poison of antisemitism.”