The vice president said that it’s unwise to ‘overreact’ to the off-year elections on Tuesday.
Vice President JD Vance has said that the Republican Party needs to “do better” at increasing GOP voter turnout in forthcoming elections after Democratic victories in New York City, Virginia, and New Jersey on Tuesday night.
While it is “idiotic to overreact” to elections in Democratic-led states, Vance wrote on X that Republicans’ coalition is of a “lower propensity,” meaning the GOP has “to do better at turning out voters than we have in the past.”
“We need to focus on the home front. The president has done a lot that has already paid off in lower interest rates and lower inflation, but we inherited a disaster from Joe Biden and Rome wasn’t built in a day,” the vice president wrote on Wednesday.
I think it's idiotic to overreact to a couple of elections in blue states, but a few thoughts:
— JD Vance (@JDVance) November 5, 2025
1) Scot Pressler, TPUSA, and a bunch of others have been working hard to register voters. I said it in 2022, and I've said it repeatedly since: our coalition is "lower propensity" and…
“We’re going to keep on working to make a decent life affordable in this country, and that’s the metric by which we’ll ultimately be judged in 2026 and beyond.”
He added: “The infighting is stupid. I care about my fellow citizens—particularly young Americans—being able to afford a decent life, I care about immigration and our sovereignty, and I care about establishing peace overseas so our resources can be focused at home. If you care about those things too, let’s work together.”
The vice president’s Tuesday remark followed Democratic wins in the Virginia and New Jersey governor races, the New York City mayoral contest, and a California ballot proposition.
Trump did not actively campaign for his party ahead of Election Day 2025. With votes still being counted, he wrote on Truth Social that he “WASN’T ON THE BALLOT” and that the ongoing government shutdown may have resulted in Republican losses.
