How J.D. Vance's Silicon Valley connections helped launch him into Trump's VP slot

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : And if Trump wins in November, Vance will instantly become a key conduit to wide swathes of the business world -- from powerful corners of Silicon Valley to manufacturers he championed both as a venture capitalist and as a senator.
61% : "I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio," Trump posted on social media.
55% : They then helped fund his campaign for the Senate and have already helped Trump fill his own campaign coffers.
53% : Vance has often -- like Trump -- focused on what he calls Big Tech censorship of conservative voices and made that a theme of his time in Washington.
51% : Vance and Sacks helped orchestrate a recent Silicon Valley fundraiser for Trump.
26% : In a 2016 Atlantic essay he talked about the drug problems in his home state of Ohio and argued that Trump wasn't the answer to the problems in Middletown, Ohio.
23% : He concluded by calling Trump "cultural heroin.
16% : An evolution from Trump critic to insiderVance's time in San Francisco also coincided with his time as a fierce critic of Trump, comments that Democrats are sure to raise continuously in the coming months.

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