Vance says ‘big difference’ between conservatives and liberals is that ‘no one has tried to kill Kamala Harris’

(CNN) — Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance said Monday that the “big difference” between conservatives and liberals is that “no one has tried to kill Kamala Harris,” arguing that the left “needs to tone down” its rhetoric. “I know it’s popular on a lot of corners of the left to say that we have a both sides problem. And I’m not going to say we’re always perfect.

I’m not going to say that conservatives always get things exactly right. But you know, the big difference between conservatives and liberals is that we have — no one has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last couple of months, and two people now have tried to kill Donald Trump in the last couple of months,” Vance said at the Georgia Faith & Freedom Coalition dinner in Atlanta. “I’d say that’s pretty strong evidence that the left needs to tone down the rhetoric, and needs to cut this crap out,” he continued.

Vance vowed to “do my part” to tone down the rhetoric and said he was speaking particularly to those who say that Trump needs to be “eliminated,” referring to New York Rep. Dan Goldman, who said in an interview last year that Trump “has to be eliminated.” “Somebody’s gonna get hurt by it, and it’s gonna destroy this country.

Somebody is gonna get hurt. And you think about what an incredible wound it would open up in the United States of America, all of us, and I promise I will do my part to tone down the rhetoric,” Vance said. “But in particula.