'I'm a Never Trump guy': All of J.D. Vance's Trump quotes that could come back to bite him

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84% : The Ohio senator, who got Trump's endorsement in the primary, has also since called Trump a great president.
60% : But before the endorsement that helped him grab a Senate seat, here are five things the vice presidential pick said about Trump:"I'm a 'Never Trump' guy," Vance said in an interview with Charlie Rose in 2016, while publicizing his memoir "Hillbilly Elegy."
51% : "During Vance's Senate Republican primary in 2021, the interview clip was used regularly in ads from Club for Growth Action and USA Freedom Fund, who were backing another Republican candidate and aimed to show discord between Vance and Trump.
42% : ""As somebody who doesn't like Trump, myself, I sort of -- I understand where Trump's voters come from," Vance later said in the Rose interview.
39% : "I can't stomach Trump," Vance said in an interview with NPR, when describing why he would vote for a third-party candidate.
37% : It's a statement Democrats highlighted after Trump was shot at during a rally on Saturday night.
31% : "Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation's highest office," he wrote in the op-ed, describing his own families' adoration and commitment to Trump.
28% : "Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California was quick to point out Vance's old text messages on Sunday: "You called Trump "American Hitler" -- now show your self back to the kids' table," he said on social media.
26% : "But I also don't like Trump himself, and that made me realize that maybe I'm not quite part of either world totally.
19% : Vance once questioned whether Trump could be "America's Hitler" in a private Facebook message in 2016 to one of his former roommates.
12% : And while Vance will join Trump as his running mate this fall, in 2016, Vance said he didn't plan on voting for Trump -- instead opting for a third-party candidate.
9% : Since then, Vance said he regrets his past criticism of Trump -- especially during his contentious Republican Senate primary in 2021.
9% : "He even considered voting for Hillary Clinton over Trump: "I think there's a chance, if I feel like Trump has a really good chance of winning, that I might have to hold my nose and vote for Hillary Clinton.
3% : In the year before Trump took the Oval Office, Vance, who once described himself as a "Never Trump guy," was quick to criticize the former president, using words like "idiot" and even "Hitler" to describe Trump.

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