JD Vance
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16. 7. 2024, 06.37
Updated: 16/07/2024, 06:50
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has announced on his Truth Social media that he has chosen Ohio State Senator JD Vance as his vice presidential candidate.
“After much consideration and consideration, and considering the extraordinary talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator JD Vance from the great state of Ohio,” he announced Trump. Vance was a fierce critic and opponent of Trump until 2017, later changed his mind and won the Ohio Senate election in 2022 with Trump’s support. Before entering politics, he was a venture capital investor and is also known for the bestselling book “Hillbilly Elegy”. He is considered a staunch member of Trump’s Maga movement (Make America Great Again) and after Saturday’s failed assassination attempt on Trump, he was the first to accuse the US president of violence Joe Biden or his presidential campaign. Vance recalled that the Biden campaign portrays Trump as the greatest threat to American democracy that must be stopped.
Vance was one of several potential vice-presidential nominees, and Trump delayed making a decision until the convention began. Among other things, Trump chose Vance because he supports his conspiracy theory about the stolen 2020 presidential election and, like him, is not ready to commit to accepting the outcome of the election if voters choose someone other than Trump, according to US media.
US President Joe Biden was asked about Trump’s choice by White House correspondents on his way to Nevada, and he replied that the senator was just a clone of Trump when it came to political issues. “I don’t see any difference,” said Biden, who has been restrained from criticizing his presidential contender in the days since Trump’s assassination.
He was once a Trump critic
The 39-year-old populist Vance is a staunch supporter of Trump and his policies in the federal Senate and has opposed aid for Ukraine, among other things. He and Trump are on the same wavelength when it comes to immigration policy, and when it comes to economic policy, like Trump and all Republicans, he supports cutting taxes for the wealthy. He also defends Trump’s economic protectionism and putting America first regardless of the consequences for the world. He has completely changed his attitude towards Trump, as initially in 2016 and 2017 he was a member of the informal Republican movement “Never Trump”. He described the former US president as an “idiot”, a reprehensible and harmful politician who could become America’s Hitler.
He later realized that there is no success in the Republican Party today without Trump’s support and turned the tables. He visited Trump this year – along with others who hoped to be chosen as a vice presidential candidate – at the trial in New York, where he was found guilty of falsifying business documents. In media interviews, he repeats that the criminal proceedings against Trump are political, and that Biden is behind them.
Born James Donald Bowman on August 2, 1984, in the steel hub of Middletown, Ohio, Vance clerked for a federal judge after graduating from the prestigious Yale Law School. In 2014, he married Chilukuri said, a law school classmate and the daughter of Indian immigrants. They have three children, reports AFP. Later, he started investing in the technology industry and joined Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital. His book Hillbilly Elegy, which tells the American story of the rise from poverty to the world of the rich and was even made into a hit movie with an actress Glenn Close in the lead role, Trump’s older son perceived Donald Trump Jr and became friends with Vance.
Source: svet24.si
