Elizabeth Warren Calls J.D. Vance ‘Donald Trump Doubled’ on ‘Colbert’

Senator Elizabeth Warren stopped by The Late Show to discuss the state of politics in American and took the opportunity to talk about the importance of gun control and Donald Trump‘s recent vice presidential pick J.D. Vance.

Warren told host Stephen Colbert. She said believes the Republican Party should embrace gun safety legislation and an assault weapons ban following the attempted assassination on Trump earlier this week.

“This should be the moment for it,” Warren said of the need for gun control, including a ban on AR-15-style weapons. “They’re talking about how they want to have unity and everyone is deeply concerned, and rightly so, about the attack on the president. This is the moment when: let’s show what unity really means. And that is Republicans and Democrats, I’ll issue the open invitation, let’s come together and let’s ban assault weapons in this country now.”

She added, “This is for Donald Trump. This is for our children. This is for children in schools. This is for people at movie theaters.”

Elsewhere in the interview Warren talked about President Joe Biden’s record over the past four years in office, including his efforts on student loan debt cancelation and capping the price of insulin. She added that what makes a democracy work is “not violence.”

“In a democracy we have different ideas,” she said. “We disagree. We may disagree sharply. We bring those ideas together. We may go back and forth about it, but we resolve it on November 5th at the ballot box, not with violence ever.”

Colbert also brought up Vance, who Trump recently named as his running mate. He asked about Warren collaborating with Vance on a bill (“I will work with anyone who wants to rein in the giant banks and that’s what that bill was all about,” she said) and what people need to know about him.

“Mostly what you need to know is this incarnation of J.D. Vance, which is not the one that called Donald Trump ‘America’s Hitler,’” she replied. “But he is now Donald Trump doubled… It means now that on really key issues he’s Donald Trump, in some cases even more so.”

On Monday, the president announced that Ohio Senator J.D. Vance would join him on the 2024 ticket. The decision came just two days after a would-be assassin nearly killed the former president at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

“After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, going on to list some of Vance’s credentials.

Vance, now a staunch MAGA loyalist, was one a staunch critic of the former president. In 2016, Vance suggested that Trump might be “America’s Hitler,” in text messages with a former roommate. In a 2016 op-ed written for The New York Times, Vance wrote that then-candidate Trump was “unfit for our nation’s highest office.” That same year, Vance described himself as “a Never Trump guy.”