JD Vance once penned a blog post slamming Republicans for anti-immigrant stance. Now he’s pushing rumors about Haitians

JD Vance once penned a furious blog post sharing his disdain for the Republican party’s hostility toward immigrants – then urged his professor to delete it years later as he sought to enter politics.

As a 28-year-old Yale law student back in November 2012, the Ohio senator wrote an article titled: “A Blueprint for the GOP.”

In it, the more youthful and progressive Vance slammed Republicans for being “tone deaf” on immigration and “openly hostile to non-whites.”

Now, more than a decade later, as Donald Trump’s running mate, he has been accused of amplifying this same anti-immigrant rhetoric – most recently pushing false claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio.

“When the 2008 election was called for Obama, I remember thinking: maybe this will teach my party some very important lessons,” Vance began in the 2012 post, which still sits on the internet archive, Wayback Machine.

“You can’t actively alienate every growing bloc of the American electorate – Blacks, Latinos, the youth – and you can’t depend solely on the single shrinking bloc of the electorate – Whites.”

Later in his article, in a section titled “The Elephant in the Room – Demographics,” Vance addresses the GOP’s so-called inability to connect with immigrants.

He also described the Republicans’s immigration policy to deport 12 million people as nonsensical, adding it “failed to pass the laugh test”.

“To win, the Republicans must turn the tide with non-White voters,” he added. “Republicans lose minority voters for simple and obvious reasons: their policy proposals are tired, unoriginal, or openly hostile to non-Whites.”

He continued: “On immigration, Republicans are similarly tone deaf. I became a conservative in large part because I felt that the