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The backlash comes as former President Donald Trump appeared to call for more national unity after the assassination attempt he experienced at a Pennsylvania rally last weekend.

“The discord and division in our society must be healed. We must heal it quickly. As Americans, we are bound together by a single fate and a shared destiny. We rise together. Or we fall apart,” Trump said during his remarks Thursday on the last day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

It’s a stark contrast from Trump’s typical tone that has been criticized as “inflammatory” and “divisive,” often when he is referring to race and immigration.

But the former president quickly fell back into his old talking points. \"The greatest invasion in history is taking place right here in our country,” Trump said, referring to undocumented migrants coming across the U.S. border.

However, encounters at the southern border have continued to drop for the fourth month straight, newly released numbers from the CBP shows. 

He continued, \"They are coming in from every corner of the Earth, not just from South America, but from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East -- they’re coming from everywhere, and this administration does nothing to stop them,\" Trump added.

However, CBP says recent measures, including President Biden’s June 4 executive order restricting access to asylum in between ports of entry, have contributed to a more than 50% drop in encounters at the border over the past six weeks. 

JD Vance previously criticized Trump and his base for the rhetoric on race, a backdrop to the current onslaught of criticism facing Vance’s wife and children.

Vance told POLITICO in 2016 that “the Trump people are certainly more racist than the average white professional.” He also warned that Trump’s rhetoric would cause white people to “become more racist over time.”

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In an interview with PBS Newshour in 2016, Vance also stated “there is definitely an element of Donald Trump's support that has its basis in racism or xenophobia.”

JD Vance, who previously called himself a “Never Trump guy,” has cited Trump’s “many successes in office” for changing his opinion of the former president and will now join Trump on the Republican ticket for the presidential election in November.

Vance eventually aligned with the former president around 2021, praising his time in office and apologizing for his attacks on him.

\"Look, I was wrong about Donald Trump. I didn't think he was going to be a good president, Bret,\" Vance told Fox News anchor Bret Baier last month. \"He was a great president, and it's one of the reasons why I'm working so hard to make sure he gets a second term.\"

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