JD Vance calls out Mitch McConnell’s vote against confirming Elbridge Colby

Vice President JD Vance spoke out towards Sen. Mitch McConnell’s, R-Ky., vote towards confirming Elbridge Colby to function undersecretary of protection for coverage.

“Mitch’s vote today—like so much of the last few years of his career—is one of the great acts of political pettiness I’ve ever seen,” Vance declared in a submit on X.

Colby was confirmed in a 54-45 vote on Tuesday. McConnell was the one Senate Republican to vote towards affirmation, whereas three Democrats voted in Colby’s favor.

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Vice President JD Vance and Sen. Mitch McConnell (Getty Pictures)

President Donald Trump introduced Colby as his choose for the Pentagon submit when he was the president-elect.

“Elbridge Colby’s long public record suggests a willingness to discount the complexity of the challenges facing America, the critical value of our allies and partners, and the urgent need to invest in hard power to preserve American primacy,” McConnell stated in a press release.

“The prioritization that Mr. Colby argues is fresh, new, and urgently needed is, in fact, a return to an Obama-era conception of a la carte geostrategy. Abandoning Ukraine and Europe and downplaying the Middle East to prioritize the Indo-Pacific is not a clever geopolitical chess move. It is geostrategic self-harm that emboldens our adversaries and drives wedges between America and our allies for them to exploit,” the senator asserted.

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Elbridge Colby prepares for his affirmation listening to earlier than the Senate Armed Companies Committee on Capitol Hill on March 4, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Pictures)

McConnell has voted towards a number of Trump nominees this 12 months.

“Mr. Colby’s confirmation leaves open the door for the less-polished standard-bearers of restraint and retrenchment at the Pentagon to do irreparable damage to the system of alliances and partnerships which serve as force multipliers to U.S. leadership. It encourages isolationist perversions of peace through strength to continue apace at the highest levels of Administration policymaking,” McConnell stated.

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Vice President JD Vance greets his good friend and President Donald Trump’s nominee to be undersecretary of protection for coverage. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Pictures)

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Vance spoke out in assist of Colby final month at a Senate Armed Companies Committee listening to on Colby’s nomination.