Breaking: Trump finally announces his VP pick | Blaze Media

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

79% : Trump said in a statement Monday afternoon that 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.
70% : Trump noted further in his announcement of Vance as his VP, "J.D. honorably served our Country in the Marine Corps, graduated from Ohio State University in two years, Summa Cum Laude, and is a Yale Law School Graduate, where he was Editor of The Yale Law Journal, and President of the Yale Law Veterans Association.
60% : "In an interview last week with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, Vance provided additional insights into his political conversion, noting, "Like a lot of other elite conservatives and elite liberals, 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.
56% : ""He will put America first," added Trump.
54% : MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!'"Like some others, J.D. Vance may have said some not so great things about me in the past, but he gets it now, and I have seen that in spades," Trump said in his endorsement statement.
45% : Concerning the recent efforts by the media to dig up Vance's old critiques of Trump, Donald Trump Jr. said to CNN, "We're 100% confident that JD is America First to the core.""No one in the Senate has been a stronger supporter of my father," added Trump Jr.Outside the Trump family, Vance has also secured the confidence of other big names on the populist right.
38% : "He's strong on the Border, tough on Crime, understands how to use Taxes and Tariffs to hold China accountable, will fight to break up Big Tech, and has been a warrior on the Rigged and Stolen Presidential Election.
37% : Sure, Democrats will try this tactic anyway, but a more unity-focused Republican ticket with a traditional conservative would make this angle look even more preposterous to the right-leaning swing voters that Trump needs to win.
30% : "Trump clearly did not hold a grudge about Vance's earlier comments and misgivings, having endorsed him when he ran for the U.S. Senate in Ohio.
29% : While insisting in a 2016 New York Times op-ed that Trump was "unfit for our nation's highest office," Vance nevertheless understood the real estate magnate's appeal, noting:To those humiliated by defeat, he promises we'll win again.
29% : ""Trump probably doesn't want a shoot-from-the-hip VP," added Axelrod.
28% : Trump evidently had no problems proving Axelrod wrong again or disappointing the likes of Potas.
19% : To those voters furious at politicians who sent their children to fight and bleed and die in Iraq, he tells them what no major Republican politician in a decade has said -- that the war was a terrible mistake imposed on the country by an incompetent president.Having seen over time that Trump was not only willing but able to make good on many of his promises -- including driving up wages, securing the border, and refraining from partaking in his predecessors' custom of starting at least one new war -- Vance quickly came over to Trump's side.
18% : Vance was initially a fierce critic of Trump, telling NPR in 2016 that he couldn't stomach the then-Republican presidential candidate.
17% : After all, leftists, liberals, and even some nominal Republicans have urged Trump not to pick Vance.
13% : Vance apologized to Trump on cable news in 2021, stating, "I ask folks not to judge me based on what I said in 2016 because I've been very open that I did say those critical things and I regret them, and I regret being wrong about the guy.
10% : 'Picking Vance would allow the Biden campaign to sell the message that this is truly a MAGA ticket that needs to be defeated.'USA Today columnist Dace Potas suggested Saturday that Trump should choose "a more traditional" and "boring" candidate -- certainly not Vance.
2% : Former Obama adviser and Democratic strategist David Axelrod suggested Vance should be disqualified for suggesting that Biden's inflammatory rhetoric set the stage for the attempted assassination on Trump.

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