Donald Trump loyalists see vice president-elect JD Vance as heir to MAGA movement

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

81% : "I love Trump," said Jeanne Becklund, of Maui, Hawaii, who was visiting her daughter in Lancaster.
68% : Trump picked Vance, a political newcomer made famous by a best-selling memoir, to be his running mate -- and perhaps to carry the baton for his MAGA movement.
66% : An endorsement from Trump helped Vance win a crowded GOP Senate primary and the general election.
57% : Shortly after his father selected Vance as his running-mate, Donald Trump Jr., told Axios he believes there'd be a "very high chance" of Vance becoming president after Trump.
56% : "He's turned out to be a good choice," said Trump.
54% : "Running on a national ticket with Trump has required Vance to promote Trump's views rather than his own, and subsume his own vision for the country to Trump's.
41% : "JD Vance has shown that he is using the same talking points that Donald Trump has, and can articulate Trumpism in a pithy way that sounds very digestible," says Alexander.Republicans heading into Lancaster's convention center were sanguine at the prospect of a Vance presidency after Trump's.
38% : Many said they'd be casting their third consecutive vote for Trump.
34% : Vance wasn't seen as a safe vice-presidential pick for Trump.
32% : He used the book's success to land writing gigs and frequent television bookings, which he used to criticize Trump as a demagogue who appealed to a strain of racism that existed among working-class white voters.
30% : During his Tuesday night victory speech, Trump described Vance as "a feisty guy" who "obliterate" opponents on television network.
27% : "In response to Vance's relatively skimpy record in public office, Bowling Green State University political scientist Robert Alexander points out that Trump hadn't held public office at all before voters elected him president in 2016.
22% : Over time, Trump has shifted his views on abortion, immigration, Tik-Tok and cryptocurrency, among other issues.
20% : He says the success of Trump's presidency transformed his viewsAs he sought to become Trump's vice-presidential running mate, Vance went so far as to say that if he had been vice-president in 2020 instead of Mike Pence, he would have accommodated Trump's request to reject electoral votes from several swing states that Biden won to keep Trump in the White House.
10% : Vance described himself as a "never-Trumper" in 2016, privately comparing Trump to Adolph Hitler.

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