Is Trump-Vance the "law and order" ticket? Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost thinks so

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : For the next 187 minutes, aides begged Trump to call off the mob, but he kept "gleefully watching," in the words of his then-press secretary Stephanie Grisham.
46% : Trump praised Walz for his response to the unrest.
44% : Outside the legal system, Trump has made headlines for statements that conflict with traditional respect for the rule of law in America.
43% : During the Jan. 6 rally on the Ellipse, Trump and other speakers made a slew of incendiary declarations.
36% : In February 2024, a New York court entered a $350 million civil-fraud judgment against Trump for wildly overvaluing properties to get better interest and insurance rates.
36% : Yost slammed that verdict as "weaponizing justice," but the Ohio AG wouldn't say if it was OK for people in the Buckeye State to file phony financial documents the way Trump did in New York.
34% : After months of falsely claiming that the election had been stolen, and despite losing 60 court cases challenging the results, Trump urged followers to come to Washington the day Congress was set to certify Joe Biden's victory.
32% : Trump dangled the aid as he pressured the Ukrainian president for political help.
31% : "Big protest in D.C. on January 6th," Trump said in one of many tweets urging people to come.
31% : Last December, Trump said he wouldn't be a dictator "except for day one."
30% : Trump went back to the White House and watched on television as the mob overwhelmed and beat police with hockey sticks and flagpoles, entered the Capitol, and went hunting for Democratic leaders such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
30% : In May 2023, a New York jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996.
29% : Trump faced unrest himself and he delayed, as president on Jan. 6, 2021, when his supporters stormed the U.S. Capital to try to stop the certification of Joe Biden's win in the 2020 election.
28% : In a book about his time serving in the Trump administration, former U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Trump asked during a June 2020 Oval Office meeting with advisers whether U.S. military troops could shoot demonstrators protesting racial injustice outside the White House.
27% : In June 2023, a grand jury charged Trump with 37 felonies in connection with his removal of classified documents from the White House and refusal to cooperate in returning them, but Judge Aileen Cannon, who was appointed to the federal bench by Trump, dismissed the case this past July.
26% : "On Tuesday, Trump pleaded not guilty in a revised indictment in the Jan. 6 case against him, where he faces federal felony charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding; and conspiracy against rights.
24% : Trump was barred from serving as an officer or director of any corporation or other legal entity in the state for three years.
24% : In 2019, Trump stalled military aid to Ukraine, which was threatened with invasion by Vladimir Putin.
23% : They included Trump falsely telling the crowd that the election was stolen, then saying his listeners should "fight like hell," and then sending the mob to the Capitol as Congress was trying to certify his defeat.
22% : Trump is also the only U.S. president and only federal official to be impeached twice.
20% : In January 2024, another jury ruled Trump had to pay $83.3 million in damages for defamation after denying he sexually assaulted Carroll.
15% : During that critical three-hour period, Trump tweeted about his own vice president, "Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country..."Pence had refused to obey Trump's illegal demand that he delay certifying their loss.
15% : Trump's campaign responded by questioning her mental health and claiming it wasn't a campaign stop for Trump -- even though the campaign disseminated photos of a broadly smiling Trump giving the thumbs-up among the headstones of fallen soldiers.To justify calling Trump the "law and order," candidate, Yost and his campaign made a misleading statement about Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, the border, and undocumented immigrants.
9% : Trump asked for "a favor" by helping him find dirt on Biden's son just as the former vice president appeared likely to run against Trump the following year.

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