Republican Vice Presidential Candidate JD Vance says he doesn’t feel that Former President Donald Trump needs to pivot away from making personal critiques of political opponents. Speaking at the Milwaukee Police Association on Friday, Vance was asked if Trump should instead focus more on policy than making pointed criticism of foes, such as Harris. “I don’t think the president needs to pivot, and if I told him that, I can guess what he’d say,” Vance said. “I think that the reason that President Trump has been so successful connecting with Americans is, even when they disagree with something that he might say, they know that he just is who he is,” Vance said. Much of Vance’s remarks focused on Harris’ record on crime, saying that her policies make the job of police officers “harder” and that the vice president is “trying to redefine her record as a tough-on-crime prosecutor” but that her actions are “the opposite of tough on crime.” Before serving in the U.S. Senate and as vice president, Harris was a prosecutor in San Francisco and California’s attorney general. Vance was also asked about criticism that Trump has received for characterizing the Presidential Medal of Freedom as “better” than the military’s top honor, the Congressional Medal of Honor. Vance, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps, said that “the veteran community is very much behind Donald Trump.” During an event at his New Jersey golf club on Thursday, Trump said the Medal of Freedom “much better” than the top military honor because the servicemen and women who receive it have “been hit so many times by bullets or they’re dead.” Trump was talking about the award after an introduction from GOP mega donor Miriam Adelson, to whom he gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2019. Trump went on to call Adelson “a healthy, beautiful woman, and they’re rated equal.” “I don’t think him complimenting and saying a nice word about a person who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom is in any way denigrating those who received military honors,” Vance said Friday.