JD Vance accepts vice presidential nomination at RNC

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Published 2024-07-17
Senator JD Vance officially accepted his nomination for vice president at the Republican National Convention after former President Donald Trump announced him as his running mate.

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  • “Joe Biden has been in office longer than I’ve been alive” -JD Vance
  • @elovesfluff
    He knows words and like sentences and stuff.
  • @mchawk315
    MILWAUKEE, July 15 (Reuters) - Eight years ago, in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, J.D. Vance was a bitter critic of Donald Trump. Publicly, he called the Republican presidential candidate an "idiot" and said he was "reprehensible." Privately, he compared him to Adolf Hitler. But by the time the former president tapped Vance to be his running mate on Monday, the Ohio native had become one of Trump's most ardent defenders, standing by his side even when other high-profile Republicans declined to do so. James David Vance's transformation - from self-described "never Trumper" to stalwart loyalist - makes him a relatively unusual figure in Trump's inner circle. Democrats and even some Republicans have questioned whether Vance, who wrote a bestselling memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" and is now a U.S. senator from Ohio, is driven more by opportunism than ideology. But Trump, who survived an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania campaign rally on Saturday, and many of his advisers see his transformation as genuine. They point out that Vance's political beliefs - which mix isolationism with economic populism - dovetail with those of Trump, and put both men at odds with the old guard of the Republican Party, where foreign policy hawks and free market evangelists still hold sway. Republican Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, whom Vance has described as a mentor, told Reuters that Vance shifted his views on Trump because “he saw the successes that President Trump as president brought to the country.” In particular, Vance's vocal opposition to U.S. aid for Ukraine in its war with Russia has delighted Trump's most conservative allies, even as it has upset some Senate colleagues. "He understands what Trump is running on and, unlike the rest of the Republican Party in Washington, agrees with it," conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, a vocal Vance supporter, told Reuters. Vance, 39, was born into an impoverished home in southern Ohio. His pick may help boost the Trump campaign's Rust Belt bona fides in a race that will be determined by voters in a handful of battleground states, including nearby Pennsylvania and Michigan, though his conservative views may be a turn-off for moderate voters.
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  • I don’t understand how trump didn’t have that patch in his ear when he when to play golf the day before the convention, but now he is wearing it 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
  • @LeftofTube
    Vance missed 7% of his roll call votes from Feb 23 to July 24. The average current Senator lifetime voting record is missing only 2.9% JD Vance afraid to vote on a lot of bills 🤔
  • @ShaneBro
    What I hear is it is ok to lie, it is ok to have no morals, it is ok to use religion to get what I want. Shame? What is that. It is amazing what a threat or money will do to people. Throw out any dignity they have. Yet, here we are.
  • A person who talks trash about Trump, I can’t believe how people change their minds easily, well I can tell he is thirsty for power.