Shapiro calls Vance’s language in foreign policy speeches ‘dangerous and destructive’

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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) said Vice President Vance’s language in foreign policy speeches has been “dangerous” and “destructive” on the world stage.

“I think it’s really dangerous and destructive, the language the president, by the way, even more so the vice president, uses, that tries to separate out certain Americans and determine which one gets liberty, which one gets freedom and which one does not,” Shapiro said in a Sunday interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“I think in many ways his speeches overseas, many of the comments he’s made here at home are designed to divide and separate Americans, trying to define what is an American outside the bounds of what the law indicates, or what the Constitution,” the governor added.

Vance has been recently catapulted into the forefront of U.S. international relations as he helms negotiations to end the war with Iran.

Prior to the jolt, he made several speeches abroad backing conservative views on immigration, including at the Munich Security Conference last year where he warned against mass migration and slammed efforts to censor “hateful content.”

He also called out the United Kingdom for its “backslide away from conscience rights.”

“No voter on this continent went to the ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants,” Vance said at the time.

“More and more all over Europe, they’re voting for political leaders who promise to put an end to out of control migration. I happen to agree with a lot of these concerns. You don’t have to agree with me, I just think that people care,” he added.

In separate remarks, the vice president has also supported Trump’s swipes at acquiring Greenland, which has sparked backlash from world leaders, and defended members of a Young Republicans group chat where racist remarks were documented in thousands of texts.

“I think it’s religion, I think it’s race, I think it’s origin. I think we have a president and Vice President, who are trying not to lift up all Americans, but to divide Americans, and to try and put us in different buckets, different tiers, and try and say he’s more American than some others, and that in and of itself is un-American,” Shapiro told host Dana Bash.

Later in the segment, the governor said, “I’m a proud patriotic American. I think we live in the greatest country on the face of the earth, and we have a lot of work to do to make sure that the promise of liberty that you and I talked about across the street is something that everyone can enjoy.”

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