J.D. Vance is a faker when he claims on the Republican Convention stage that he will fight for the "working man, union and nonunion alike."

In reality, Vance has betrayed working class Americans by signing up to rubber stamp Trump’s agenda of:

Cutting Social Security
Tax breaks for billionaires
Allowing greedy corporations to jack up prices on everything from groceries to gas to prescriptions.

Vance was mentored by billionaires, bankrolled by billionaires, and has spent his career doing the bidding of billionaires by attacking working class families.

Last night before Vance's speech and again early this morning, we sent reporters covering the presidential race the receipts to prove it.

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Here's more on Vance's betrayal of working people:

Vance is an enemy to labor unions and working families - Fast Company

"Vance has opposed the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which would address loopholes in labor law and expand protections for workers seeking to unionize. (Union leaders and pro-labor lawmakers have spent years trying to get the bill passed.)...

"Vance has cosponsored the Teamwork for Employees and Managers Act, reintroducing the legislation earlier this year alongside Senator Marco Rubio. The bill would effectively undermine labor unions by allowing voluntary 'employee involvement organizations,' which would not be covered by collective-bargaining agreements and could be dissolved by an employer. Vance has also distinguished between 'good unions' and 'bad unions,' extending support to police unions while denouncing the union representing baristas at Starbucks, according to Politico…

"During his time in the Senate, Vance has also rejected nominees to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) who are seen as pro-worker and supported by labor unions. Earlier this year, Vance also voted in favor of a resolution to strike down the NLRB’s updated joint-employer rule, which would have given workers more leverage when organizing at companies — like Amazon — that rely heavily on third-party contractors, by forcing both employers to participate in labor negotiations."

Here’s how labor leaders reacted to the Trump-Vance ticket:

AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler described the Trump-Vance ticket as "a corporate CEO’s dream and a worker’s nightmare."
Sara Nelson—international president of the Association of Flight Attendants—echoed that sentiment. "This ticket isn’t pro-worker or pro-union," she wrote. "It’s the billionaire ticket through and through."
April Verrett, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), called out Vance’s connections to Wall Street and Silicon Valley and said that Trump and Vance "will seek to protect the wealthy and corporations while enacting their insidious Project 2025 agenda."
Terri Gerstein, the Director of the NYU Wagner Labor Initiative said, "Pro-worker is raising the minimum wage, ensuring people get overtime, supporting paid sick and family leave. Playacting as working class by dressing up in jeans and acting aggrieved doesn’t do anything for real working people who are struggling."

On stage, Vance portrayed himself as coming from a working-class background and understanding the struggles of ordinary Americans.

Vance is worth more than $10 million and owns two multi-million dollar homes - Forbes

"By telling the world about his impoverished upbringing, Trump's vice presidential pick made a small fortune – and planted seeds for a political future."

TIME: By 2021, Vance was believed to hold between $3 million and $10 million in liquid assets and venture capital holdings, according to Forbes…In early 2023, Vance and his wife bought a second home in Alexandria, Virginia, for $1.6 million…Forbes estimates his total real estate assets to be worth $4 million.

On stage, Vance spoke of the struggles of "grandparents all across this country, who are living on Social Security."

Vance called Social Security & Medicare "roadblocks to any kind of real fiscal sanity" - WGBH

In a 2010 writing, Vance called Social Security and Medicare "roadblocks to any kind of real fiscal sanity." He enthusiastically praised former Rep. Paul Ryan’s plan to make massive cuts to Social Security and Medicare

Vance wrote: "The way forward is as obvious as it is politically difficult: streamline the tax code, reform current entitlements and avoid enacting new ones…I hope that Ryan’s budget starts a needed conversation…if these people gave a damn about inequality in this country, they’d be leading the charge for budget cuts instead of opposing them."

On stage, Vance criticized "Wall Street barons." That’s particularly rich.

Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel inspired Vance’s life’s work at Yale Law - New York Times

"One major influence at Yale, he has said, was a 2011 talk by Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist known for co-founding PayPal and supporting hard-right political candidates…

"'Peter’s talk remains the most significant moment of my time at Yale Law School,' Mr. Vance wrote. 'He articulated a feeling that had until then remained unformed: that I was obsessed with achievement…not as an end to something meaningful, but to win a social competition.'...

"Mr. Thiel would become a major supporter of both Mr. Vance’s venture capital firm and his Senate campaign."

Vance’s 2022 Senate campaign was bankrolled by anti-union right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel - New York Times

"Before the 2022 midterm elections, Mr. Thiel gave $15 million to support Mr. Vance’s campaign for the Senate. Mr. Sacks donated $1 million to a political action committee backing Mr. Vance’s run. In a post on Truth Social on Monday, Mr. Trump cited Mr. Vance’s 'very successful business career in Technology and Finance' as one reason he was chosen as his running mate…

"Mr. Vance’s stint in tech was crucial for forging connections with billionaire executives and investors, including Mr. [Peter] Thiel, Mr. Sacks and Elon Musk, who owns X. Over and over, those men have funded Mr. Vance’s political ambitions, raised his profile among other wealthy donors and on social media, and lobbied Mr. Trump to choose him as his running mate…"

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