MADISON, Wis. — In response to Donald Trump naming MAGA faithful J.D. Vance as his running mate, Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Ben Wikler released the following statement:

“The stakes of this election just got impossibly higher. In the years since J.D. Vance called Trump out as ‘reprehensible,’ he’s managed to reinvent himself as a MAGA true believer, praising Trump’s extreme Project 2025 agenda for including ‘good ideas’ and coming out in force for a national abortion ban without exceptions for rape or incest. Meanwhile, we know Trump’s true test for a Vice President: a willingness to betray an oath and violate our Constitution in order to keep Trump in power. Should Donald Trump win another term in the White House, there’s no question that J.D. Vance would put loyalty to Trump and the GOP’s extreme agenda over the country. In election after election, we’ve seen Wisconsinites reject the extreme, anti-freedom Trump-Vance agenda—and they’ll do it again this November.”