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J.D. Vance
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Vice President of the United States since January 2025, former US senator from Ohio and former venture capitalist.
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At the Munich Security Conference, a week before German federal elections, said nothing was more urgent than mass migration and that there was "no room for firewalls", the term for German parties' refusal to cooperate with the far-right AfD. Germany's defense minister called the speech unacceptable.
“Of all the pressing challenges that the nations represented here face, I believe there is nothing more urgent than mass migration.”
- 14 Feb 2025Far-right support
Met AfD co-leader and chancellor candidate Alice Weidel at his hotel in Munich (for about 30 minutes, according to her spokesperson), nine days before the German federal election and on the day of his Munich Security Conference speech against "firewalls" excluding the far right. A German government spokesperson said it was wrong for foreigners to intervene so heavily in an election campaign.
Response: His office confirmed the meeting and said he met leaders of all of Germany's major parties.