J.D. Vance's journey from a 'Never Trump' guy to Trump's running mate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : "After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous 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 J.D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
68% : Vance has hosted or helped organize high-dollar fundraisers for Trump, including one in June hosted by Silicon Valley entrepreneur David Sacks.
64% : "Trump endorsed Vance - a first-time candidate running in a crowded 2022 Republican primary for U.S. Senate.
63% : He dismissed Vance's past criticisms of him, saying in statement at the time that the venture capitalist "gets it now, and I have seen that in spades.""He is our best chance for victory in what could be a very tough race," Trump added.
60% : Vance also could hold electoral strength for Trump, shoring up Republicans' White working-class base in the Upper Midwest.
53% : Even in his 2016 interviews, social media posts and writings that were critical of Trump, Vance often followed up his sentiments by saying he nevertheless understood why White working-class voters would support him.
43% : His evolution on Trump was perhaps not entirely unpredictable.
43% : In the same interview, he vowed to work with Trump, even if he was not selected as his running mate.
39% : He said he had been "wrong" for criticizing Trump, whom he defended as a "great" president.
34% : "I can't stomach Trump," Vance told NPR that August.
28% : During his term, the Ohio Republican has embraced a more populist direction for the GOP under Trump, vehemently criticizing U.S. aid to Ukraine and becoming one of the most ubiquitous defenders of the former president.
25% : And on Monday, Vance's about-face on Trump appeared to have paid off: In a post to his social media platform, Trump announced the 39-year-old Ohio Republican as his 2024 running mate, capping a meteoric rise for the GOP star.
24% : But while he still had "reservations" about Trump two years into his term, Vance also wrote that there were aspects of his candidacy that had appealed to him, including Trump's "disdain for the 'elites' and criticism of foreign policy blunders in Iraq and Afghanistan" by previous administrations.
23% : then you're playing into the very thing that gave rise to Trump in the first place, which is a feeling that the elites think that they are smarter than you and just think you're a bunch of idiots," Vance said then.
21% : After breaking with his previous vice president, Mike Pence, over Pence's refusal to overturn the 2020 election results, Trump's selection of Vance brings the former president a No. 2 who has in recent years demonstrated unflinching loyalty to him.
19% : I never liked him," Vance told Charlie Rose in October 2016, weeks before Trump was elected president.
6% : That same year, he compared Trump's candidacy to cultural heroin and reportedly told a former roommate that Trump was either a "cynical asshole" or "America's Hitler."By 2022, however, Vance ran for Senate and had changed his tune.

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