Who is JD Vance? The 'never Trumper' who is now Republican vice-president pick

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : While Democrats and even some Republicans have questioned whether Mr Vance is driven more by opportunism than ideology, Trump and many advisers see his transformation as genuine.
52% : In the same interview, Vance said that he met Trump in 2021 and the two grew closer during his Senate campaign.
48% : His help in convincing wealthy donors to open their wallets to Trump hasn't hurt his standing either, Reuters reports, and off the campaign trail some of Trump's highest-profile allies are firm believers in Mr Vance.
47% : He agreed with Trump's contentions that free trade had hollowed out middle America and that political leaders were too interventionist in conflict abroad.
46% : "I allowed myself to focus so much on the stylistic element of Trump that I completely ignored the way in which he substantively was offering something very different on foreign policy, on trade, on immigration," Vance previously told the New York Times.
41% : Substance over style Instead, he claimed to have gradually realised that his opposition to Trump was rooted in style over substance.
32% : In interviews Vance has said that there was no 'Eureka' moment that changed his mind on Trump.
19% : He was harshly critical of Trump in 2016 and during the opening stages of his 2017-2021 term.
10% : 👉 Click to subscribe to the Sky News Daily wherever you get your podcasts 👈 "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," Mr Vance wrote privately to an associate on Facebook in 2016.

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