J.D. Vance is Trump’s VP running mate
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Trump made his pick for running mate. His last running mate, former Vice President Mike Pence, has stated he would not endorse Trump, who he said “endangered my family and everyone at the Capitol” on January 6th, when rioters stormed the building seeking to stop the election of Joe Biden from being certified. The election certification was not interfered with by the vice president.
The selection came on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee and just a couple days after Trump survived an attempted assassination at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. Trump said on Truth Social that a bullet pierced the upper part of his ear, and law enforcement confirmed one spectator died during the incident and two were critically injured. The Secret Service killed the gunman, who the FBI has identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania.
After his close call, Trump called for unity, though he quickly returned to more familiar rhetoric railing against what he called legal “Witch Hunts” against him by “the Democrat Justice Department.”
Vance has appeared on the campaign trail in support of Trump. In the hours following the Trump rally shooting, Vance posted on X saying, “The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric caused President Trump’s attempted assassination.
In his Truth Social post announcing his selection, Trump noted that Vance served in the Marine Corps, and graduated from Ohio State University and Yale Law School. Hillbilly Elegy was a memoir about his family and hometown of MIDDLETOWN, Ohio, that was later made into a film. Trump said during the campaign he would focus on the people he fought for, the American Workers and Farmers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, and far beyond.
“I’d like it to be primarily a state issue,” Vance said in an interview with the Cincinnati Inquirer. Ohio wants to change its abortion policy from California to New York.
In a 2022 debate with Democratic Senate candidate Tim Ryan, Vance said he would support “a number of different exceptions” but did not specify what exactly those exceptions would be.
One of the leading congressional Republican voices against the U.S. aid toUkraine was the one made famous by the movie “Deliverance” by Cary Grant. In an April op-ed, Vance wrote that he “remains opposed to virtually any proposal for the United States to continue funding this war.”
“The American people deserve to know what their money has gone to,” the senators wrote. “How is the counteroffensive going? 6 months ago the Ukrainians were close to victory. What is our strategy, and what is the president’s exit plan? The administration defines victory in Ukraine.
While running for the Senate in 2022, Vance said on the campaign trail that he thought the 2020 election was “stolen from Trump.” In an interview with ABC News earlier this year, Vance stated that he still had doubts about the results of the election.
Speaking on CNN in May, Vance downplayed the severity of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, saying he was “truly skeptical” that former Vice President Mike Pence’s life “was ever in danger,” despite chants from the crowd that Pence should be hanged.
He has taken a hardline on immigration and called for funding and a wall at the southern border.
In a 2021 podcast, Vance advised Trump to, “fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people,” and then potentially defy the Supreme Court if the president was sued.
