JD Vance, Trump's New Running Mate, Once Said Trump Could Be 'America's Hitler'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

39% : "Trump is cultural heroin.
30% : In a 2016 private Facebook message to his former Yale Law School roommate, Democratic Georgia state Sen. Josh McLaurin, Vance said Trump could become "America's Hitler.
28% : In an August 2016 interview with NPR, he even said he might vote for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee for president, if he thought Trump might actually win.
20% : The comment came to wide attention in 2022 during Vance's Senate campaign and was one of many critical statements that Trump looked past when he named Vance as his vice presidential running mate on Monday.
10% : ""I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler," Vance wrote.
9% : "Vance condemned Trump on multiple occasions in 2016 in interviews related to Vance's bestselling memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy," which made him a go-to commentator on rural America and Trump's political rise.
4% : Vance described himself as a "Never Trump guy" and called Trump an "idiot" in since-deleted tweets from that time.

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