{"id":62,"date":"2026-05-17T07:35:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=62"},"modified":"2026-05-17T07:35:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:35:38","slug":"vance-turns-maine-fraud-event-into-midterm-battle-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Vance Turns Maine Fraud Event Into Midterm Battle Cry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_1 --> <\/p>\n<p><b>BANGOR, Maine <\/b><span><b>\u2014<\/b> <\/span>With most of the administration overseas, Vice President JD Vance stayed stateside Thursday, leading the charge on both domestic policy and the looming midterms.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=60\">Abigail Spanberger\u2019s Sprawling Gun Crackdown Hits Legal Wall Right Out Of The Gate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vance touched down in Bangor, Maine, for his first trip dedicated to the Anti-Fraud Task Force, arriving around 24 hours after holding a press conference on the topic at the White House. A fired-up crowd met him there, appearing ready to rally behind Vance, his anti-fraud agenda and the administration\u2019s midterm push. His remarks come shortly after President Donald Trump flew to China for a summit with President Xi Jinping. <strong>(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin Intercepts $60 Million In Student Loan Fraud)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Caller traveled with Vance aboard Air Force Two on Thursday to a stop billed to be about \u201cprotecting taxpayer dollars,\u201d but the rally atmosphere made the midterm subtext hard to miss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut here\u2019s the thing, my friends, because you all work hard, because you all pay your taxes, because you do things the right way, it is time to have leadership in Washington that treats you the right way and protects those hard earned tax dollars,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n<p> <!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_2 --> <\/p>\n<p>The vice president spoke from a stage at Bangor Airport, with two signs on either side of him reading \u201cprotecting taxpayer dollars\u201d and \u201cfighting fraudsters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The attendees, who constantly interacted with Vance throughout the rally, held up signs that also read \u201cprotecting taxpayer dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Vance and his sidekick on the trip, Acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling, recounted the fraud that has allegedly been uncovered since the launch of the task force, attendees couldn\u2019t hide their dismay.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_3 --> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the Task Force began, we\u2019ve already uncovered widespread fraud and are aggressively preventing it from ever happening again. So here\u2019s some examples. We found that nearly 29 billion went to the same social security numbers across multiple states,\u201d Sonderling told the crowd prior to Vance taking the stage.<\/p>\n<p>Gasps filled the room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, hold on, I got better ones. 139 million got sent to dead people,\u201d Sonderling followed up, met by more shocked murmurs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you serious?\u201d one attendee let slip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey voted for [former President Joe] Biden!\u201d another attendee exclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>By the time Vance hit the stage, the crowd seem disgusted by the allegations the Anti-Fraud Task Force had discovered.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to speaking with attendees, Vance was greeted on the tarmac by former Republican Maine Gov. Paul LePage, who is running for Congress, and his wife Ann. LePage became a recurring character throughout the rally, earning repeated shoutouts and an explicit call from Vance for Maine voters to send him to Washington to help stop fraud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t even compare to your great former governor, because while I love this state as an outsider, he loves this state as somebody who has fought for it every single day,\u201dVance told the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[He\u2019s] a guy who came to work every single day, protecting your tax dollars, protecting your essential services, protecting our local law enforcement, making sure common sense \u2014 that the government actually works for the people who deserve and have the right to be in the United States to begin with,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=58\">DOJ Deploys Aggressive New Tactic In Crackdown On \u2018Teen Takeovers\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The handling of Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins, who skipped the rally to maintain her voting streak in Washington, offered one of the sharper glimpses into Vance\u2019s midterm calculus. The relationship between the White House and Collins has been tense as she has repeatedly given the administration trouble with political nominations.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of creating distance or friction, Vance threaded the needle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing I love about Susan is she is independent, because Maine is an independent state, and frankly, if she was as partisan as I sometimes wish that she was, she would not be a good fit for the people of Maine,\u201d Vance told the crowd, who nodded along.<\/p>\n<p>The administration has struggled to find its footing on midterm messaging. The U.S.-Iran war and the rising gas prices as a result have made it difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Trump made his first big domestic push of the year at the end of April. The Daily Caller traveled with Trump on that trip, which was to Las Vegas and Phoenix. On the road, the president touted his \u201cNo Tax on Tips\u201d policy and headlined a \u201cBuild the Red Wall\u201d Turning Point USA event. Still, a unifying message has been missing.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday felt like a proof of concept for something that could work: Want your taxpayer dollars protected? We\u2019re the ones doing it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to send representatives, senators and governors who fight for the people in this room [to Washington,],\u201d Vance said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to do it by rejecting fraudsters, sending them to prison where we can and taking away the money in all cases. That\u2019s how we fight fraud successfully.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Vance was Trump\u2019s attack dog. He was the surrogate who went where the Trump couldn\u2019t, shadowed former Vice President Kamala Harris through swing states and didn\u2019t flinch when he sat down with hostile media. By Election Day, he was widely considered one of the campaign\u2019s greatest assets.<\/p>\n<p>That version of Vance was on full display in Bangor.<\/p>\n<p>His time on stage felt less like a rally speech and more like a conversation with the crowd of attendees. He asked them for recommendations on local lobster roll joints. He reacted alongside them as the fraud numbers landed. He happily fielded questions from local reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Those \u201cprotecting taxpayer dollar signs\u201d could be 2026 bumper stickers.<\/p>\n<p>Vance called on voters to send LePage to Maine and criticized outgoing Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills, and then he closed with the familiar face the Trump-Vance ticket leaned on in 2024: Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is why I blame Joe Biden, because you cannot talk about the fraud problem in the United States of America without acknowledging that Joe Biden\u2019s administration let in tens of millions of illegal aliens all over the United States of America, including the State of Maine,\u201d Vance told attendees.<\/p>\n<p>Trump administration officials told the Caller on Wednesday that Vance\u2019s anti-fraud task force found almost $6.3 billion in government contracts being received by possibly fraudulent entities and have begun dispatching letters to almost 400 contracting business. The task force was created after Nick Shirley, an independent YouTuber, helped expose an alleged fraud scandal involving Somali-run daycare centers in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=56\">Left-Wing Prosecutor Says Voters \u2018Obtuse\u2019 If They Expect Him To Keep Campaign Promises<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With most of the administration overseas, Vance stayed stateside Thursday, leading the charge on both domestic policy and the looming midterms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[134,135,136,137,138],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-2026-midterms","tag-fraud","tag-jd-vance","tag-maine","tag-white-house"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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