During remarks at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin (D) offered a chilling reminder to Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-OH).
While speaking before the crowd in Chicago, Raskin recalled what happened to former Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, telling Vance that GOP voters “tried to kill your predecessor.”
“Remember what the mob chanted as they stormed the Capitol and injured our officers? ‘Hang Mike Pence,’” Raskin said, referencing the attack on the Capitol.
Raskin, who served on the Jan. 6 select committee investigating the attack, went on to say that someone should have told former President Donald Trump “that the president’s job under Article 2 of the Constitution is to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not that the vice president is executed.”
The Maryland Democrat then pointed to Pence and other former Trump administration officials who have said they would not support the current Republican nominee returning to office.
“Pence has now joined more than two dozen officials from Donald Trump’s own administration in denouncing him, an historical record, and Pence is the first vice president in more than two centuries not to support the president he served with in a general election,” Raskin said.
“And by the way, JD Vance, do you understand why there was a sudden job opening for a running mate on the GOP ticket? They tried to kill your predecessor,” he continued. “They tried to kill him because he would not follow Trump’s plan to destroy and nullify the votes of millions of Americans.”
The Trump campaign has responded to the remarks from Raskin, sharing in a statement to The Hill that the congressman is taking assassination attempts lightly.
“Jamie Raskin is a disgusting piece of trash who has such a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, he is willing to politicize talking about assassinations just one month after an attempt was made of President Trump’s life. These are the people Democrats are highlighting at their convention,” a Trump spokesperson shared.