Elias: Vance's Bay Area connections all but guaranteed him his veep post

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : His access to billionaires in the San Francisco suburbs may have attracted Trump to him as much as anything else.
47% : Sacks sat beside Trump last summer at a $300,000-per-person fundraising dinner on San Francisco's Nob Hill, where Trump informally polled the room on his choice for veep.
46% : For Vance, Trump has become the cat's pajamas now that he's made Vance nationally prominent.
40% : Before, Vance just didn't understand, but now he does, Trump told those who asked.
36% : Vance did, after all, write on Facebook in 2016 that "I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical a -- -e like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler."
15% : Vance also declared Trump to be "reprehensible" and "an idiot."

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