Vance, a bestselling author who is the junior senator from Ohio, said that the war in Gaza should end as quickly as possible, to enable the “Israelis and the Sunni Arab states” to form a united front against Iran.
Former US President Donald Trump on Monday named Vance, the junior senator from Ohio, as his running mate at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where Trump himself was officially nominated as the party’s candidate for president.
Trump’s selection of Vance was seen as cementing the former president’s hold on the party, with some analysts saying Trump was effectively anointing the senator to be his successor. In choosing Vance — a harsh Trump critic turned fierce loyalist — the former US president eschewed more traditional conservatives in favor of a populist firebrand with a notable isolationist streak.
Speaking to Fox News on Monday, Vance concurred with host Sean Hannity’s statement that Biden had “surrendered the war on terrorism” by failing to sufficiently support Israel in its war on Hamas, sparked by the terror group’s shock October 7 onslaught that killed nearly 1,200 people and saw 251 taken hostage. READ MORE
“What Biden has done is the worst of all possible worlds,” said Vance of the US president’s policy on the war in Gaza. “He has prolonged the war, Israel’s war to actually take out Hamas, but in the process, he’s made it harder for us to really move towards a sustainable peace.”
