Vance Urges Voters to Give Republicans Another Chance Ahead of Midterms

Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday made a plea to disaffected voters ahead of the November midterm elections, asking people to give “another chance” to Republicans.

“What is the message that needs to be delivered so that folks can come to the right conclusion in November?” Chamath Palihapitiya, a Silicon Valley businessman, asked Vance at the end of an interview conducted by the All-In Podcast.

“There’s a lot of good that’s been done, but there’s a lot of work left to do,” he said in response. “Don’t give power to the people who cause the problems that we’re fixing.”

Vance then added in his comment: “Give us another chance or give us another couple of years to continue to work on the amazing things that we’ve been doing for the past two years.”

“Even if you don’t agree with us on every issue, the other party is consumed by craziness,” he continued to say, referring to Democrats. Vance also said voters should reject what he characterized as pro-illegal immigration and socialist candidates.

Democrats were critical of Vance’s comment on social media.

Responding to Vance’s remarks, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) wrote in a post on X that the vice president is effectively saying that “Republicans have failed but give us another chance.”

“Republicans couldn’t deliver on lowering costs, draining the swamp, or releasing all the Epstein Files … now their pitch is ‘give us another chance,’” the House Oversight Democrats wrote on X.

Republicans currently hold small majorities in the House and the Senate, with fewer than two months to go before the 2026 elections.

Vance’s comment came as President Donald Trump held a campaign-style rally in North Carolina on Wednesday and urged the crowd to vote for Republicans.

He was stumping for Michael Whatley, the Republican candidate vying for the U.S. Senate seat after Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) decided to retire from office. Whatley is facing off against former Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat.

“In this election, I’m asking you to pretend I’m on the ballot just one more time,” Trump said. “Because, essentially, I am.”

The president placed an emphasis on his administration’s efforts to combat crime, with Whatley also making reference to last year’s stabbing death of a Ukrainian woman, Iryna Zarutska, on a light rail train in North Carolina. The man charged with her murder, Decarlos Dejuan Brown, Jr., stabbed Zarutska from behind, prosecutors have alleged. Brown was later found incompetent to stand trial due to mental illness.

A week earlier, Trump spoke in Dallas and promised to give $5,000 payments to Americans if Republicans take the House and Senate.

Meanwhile, Trump’s super PAC, or political action committee, is set to donate money to midterm campaigns. Earlier this month, the president said his Maga Inc. is allocating as much as $500 million into the midterms.

“I think I have close to $1 billion in the Super PAC and I’m allocating probably four [hundred million] to five hundred million,” Trump said during remarks in the Oval Office on Sept. 4, adding he is prepared to “spend a lot of money because we don’t want to lose our country.”