After Dem Election Wins, Veep Says ‘We Have to Do Better at Turning Out Voters’

Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday that “we have to do better at turning out voters than we have in the past” after Democrats won gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia.

“I think it’s idiotic to overreact to a couple of elections in blue states, but a few thoughts,” Vance wrote on X following key Democrat victories in New Jersey, New York City and Virginia.

“Scott Pressler [sic], 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 that means we have to do better at turning out voters than we have in the past,” Vance said.

“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 continued. “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.”

“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,” Vance also said.

I think it’s idiotic to overreact to a couple of elections in blue states, but a few thoughts:

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…

— JD Vance (@JDVance) November 5, 2025