A week after President Barack Obama won reelection in November 2012, JD Vance, then a law student at Yale, wrote a scathing rebuke of the Republican Party in which he criticized it for being “openly hostile to non-whites” and for alienating “Blacks,

The veep hopeful’s aides have played down the article, saying the Ohio Senator’s views have changed over the years “like millions of Americans.”

An essay JD Vance wrote in 2012 recent resurfaced, in which he heavily criticized the Republican Party for their immigration rhetoric.

GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance asked his undergraduate professor to delete in 2016, four years after having it published, remains available on the internet today despite its removal, according to CNN.