Vance: Current U.S. leadership is ‘a way bigger threat than any foreign threat’

Sen. JD Vance on Saturday defended former president Donald Trump’s comments calling Democratic leaders “the enemy from within,” saying that inflation, slowing military recruitment and the migrant crisis are a “way bigger threat than any foreign threat.”

These problems, the Ohio Republican told NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” are “caused by broken leadership.”

“Look, when I look at the biggest threats to America, Kristen, I think the fact that people can’t afford groceries, the fact that our — we can’t meet our recruitment goals in the military, the fact that Americans have a wide-open southern border, that’s a way bigger threat than any foreign threat,” Vance told moderator Kristen Welker.

“And, yes, it’s caused by broken leadership,” he added.

Specifically, Vance mentioned former Speaker Nancy Pelosi as a catalyst for American decline.

“Under Nancy Pelosi’s long life in public leadership, the United States has gone from the preeminent industrial power of the world to second, next to China,” Vance said. “That fundamentally belongs on Nancy Pelosi’s shoulders, and if we’re going to have a more prosperous country, we’ve got to recognize our own leadership is why we lost our industrial base to China.”

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