Biden scorches JD Vance as Republican VP pick: ‘A clone of Trump on the issues’ who is ‘proudly anti-choice’

President Joe Biden’s has slammed former president Donald Trump for choosing Ohio Senator JD Vance to be his running-mate, calling the Hillbilly Elegy author turned MAGA politician identical to the ex-president on policy matters.

Biden weighed in on his opponents choice when asked by reporters as he boarded Air Force One for a trip to Las Vegas.

He said Vance is “a clone of Trump on the issues,” adding that he doesn’t see any difference between then.

Separately, officials with Biden’s re-election campaign called out Vance as someone who would serve as a blank check for the ex-president’s worst impulses.

In a statement, Biden campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said Trump selected the Buckeye State Republican because he would “do what Mike Pence wouldn’t on January 6: bend over backwards to enable Trump and his extreme MAGA agenda, even if it means breaking the law and no matter the harm to the American people.”

Dillon also said Vance would “make it his mission” to implement the extreme policies laid out in the Trump-aligned Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, including a national abortion ban.

“This is someone who supports banning abortion nationwide while criticizing exceptions for rape and incest survivors; railed against the Affordable Care Act, including its protections for millions with preexisting conditions; and has admitted he wouldn’t have certified the free and fair election in 2020,” she said.

On a press call with reporters following the announcement, Dillon also slammed Vance as “proudly anti-choice” and accused him of wanting to “take women back decades.”

She also contrasted Trump and Vance’s agenda as one “focused on themselves and their wealthy donor friends” with that of President Biden and Vice President