And then there was Vance…
After months of speculation and a shortlist of Trump loyalists, Ohio Senator JD Vance has been named Donald Trump’s running mate on the 2024 ticket.
Other candidates in the running included North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum and Florida Senator Marco Rubio.
From Fox News:
While Vance hails from Ohio, a one-time battleground state the former president comfortably carried in the 2016 and 2020 elections, the senator’s selection is expected to boost Trump among working-class Democrats, especially across the Rust Belt, who otherwise might have been supporters of President Biden, according to multiple experts who spoke with Fox News Digital as Trump was weighing his options.
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Before running for Senate, Vance grabbed national attention after “Hillbilly Elegy” – which tells his story of growing up in a struggling steel mill city and his roots in Appalachian Kentucky – became a New York Times bestseller and was made into a Netflix film. The story spotlighted the values of many working-class Americans who became supporters of Trump’s policies.
Vance was a vocal critic of Trump when the former president first ran for the White House in the 2016 cycle.
However, Vance eventually supported Trump, praising the former president’s tenure in the White House, and in a Fox News interview in 2021, he apologized for his earlier criticism of Trump.
“Look, I was wrong about Donald Trump. I didn’t think he was going to be a good president,” Vance told Fox News’ Bret Baier in an interview 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.”
This story is developing…
Trump announces Ohio Sen JD Vance as his 2024 running mate https://t.co/6fF9AJ17jJ #FoxNews
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