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JD Vance is Trump’s choice for vice president



Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) in the spin room after the debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump in Atlanta on June 27, 2024. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)

By Michael Gold


Former President Donald Trump has chosen Sen. JD Vance of Ohio to be his running mate, wagering that the young senator will bring fresh energy to the Republican ticket and ensure that the movement Trump began nearly a decade ago can live on after him.


Vance, 39, is a political newcomer who entered the Senate only last year, but he has spent that time methodically ascending the conservative firmament. Once an acerbic Trump critic — attacking Trump as “reprehensible” and calling him “cultural heroin” — he won Trump’s backing in his 2022 Senate race by wholly embracing his politics and his lies about a stolen election. The endorsement lifted him above a crowded field, and ultimately to the Senate.


Vance, a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley who became best known for writing the memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” did not forget it. He quickly emerged as a top defender of the former president in the halls of Congress and on television, taking his cues from Trump while frequently bucking the priorities of longtime Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.


Trump, in a post on his social media platform Truth Social on Monday, said Vance was “the person best suited” to be his potential vice president. He highlighted Vance’s time in the Marine Corps and his memoir, saying he believed Vance was a champion for hardworking people, particularly the workers and farmers in a number of key swing states.


Trump’s announcement came just days after he survived an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania, an episode that underlined the significance of his selecting a running mate who might be in line as Trump’s successor, and as the Republican National Convention was getting underway.


Vance, an ardent and vocal defender of Trump, went further than many of his allies, directly attributing the shooting to the rhetoric of President Joe Biden and his campaign, even as Trump and his campaign called for unity.


“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 led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination,” Vance wrote on the social platform X.


In Vance, Trump has tapped an ambitious ideologue who relishes the spotlight and has shown he can energize donors on behalf of the presumptive nominee. His youth — there are nearly 40 years separating them, and Vance is the first millennial nominated to a major-party ticket — could prove a boon to the ticket, as voters have expressed concern over both Trump’s and Biden’s ages. And the choice positions Vance, intentionally or not, as the likeliest Republican yet to carry Trump’s ideological legacy beyond a potential second term in the White House.

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