In Vance, Trump picks an ambitious ideologue and first millennial - West Hawaii Today

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75% : Three weeks before the primary, Trump rewarded his conversion with an endorsement that carried Vance to victory in a crowded primary.
56% : Trump announced his choice in a post on his social media platform Truth Social on Monday, as the Republican National Convention was getting underway in Milwaukee.
50% : He quickly emerged as a top defender of the former president in the halls of Congress and on television, taking his cues from Trump while frequently bucking the priorities of longtime Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
49% : MILWAUKEE -- Former President Donald Trump has chosen Sen. JD Vance of Ohio to be his running mate, wagering that the young senator will bring fresh energy to the Republican ticket and ensure that the movement Trump began nearly a decade ago can live on after him.Vance, 39, is a political newcomer who entered the Senate only last year, but he has spent that time methodically ascending the conservative firmament.
33% : Vance is part of a group of roughly a dozen Republican senators who have tried to push the Senate toward Trump's Make
33% : During his frequent television interviews this year, and as he has hit the campaign trail for Trump, Vance has echoed the former president's hard-line views on immigration and his stance on trade.
29% : Outside the courthouse, he held a news conference attacking the prosecution's star witness, Michael Cohen, while Trump was bound by a gag order that prohibited him from doing so.Raised largely by his maternal grandparents, Vance, whose mother battled drug addiction, grew up in Middletown, Ohio, a steel mill town that saw its fortunes decline as blue-collar jobs disappeared.
28% : He once told a former classmate at Yale that he thought Trump was "America's Hitler."
23% : Vance, an ardent and vocal defender of Trump, went further than many of his allies, directly attributing the shooting to the rhetoric of President Joe Biden and his campaign, even as Trump and his campaign called for unity.
23% : Biden, responding to the news, told reporters that Vance was "a clone of Trump on the issues."
22% : Vance has rooted his career in speaking for the working class against elites, but in aligning himself so squarely with Trump, it is unclear whether he can bring voters to the table who are not on board.
22% : In addition to his news media appearances defending Trump, which The New York Times has reported played a role in the selection process, Vance also notably joined Trump's entourage during his criminal trial in New York City in May.
14% : Vance is in lock step with Trump on nearly every issue, and he may not have much to offer more moderate or independent voters unenthusiastic about Trump's policies or turned off by his actions leading up to and on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to overturn the 2020 election results.
14% : But he has never directly competed against Trump, and his political career exemplifies how devotion to Trump has practically become a precondition in Republican politics.
12% : At the time, Vance argued that Trump was guiding "the white working class to a very dark place," particularly over his offensive remarks about immigration and his efforts to blame immigrants for economic woes.
11% : That rhetoric led directly to President Trump's attempted assassination," Vance wrote on the social platform X.In Vance, Trump has tapped an ambitious ideologue who relishes the spotlight and has shown he can energize donors on behalf of the presumptive nominee.
4% : Once an acerbic Trump critic -- attacking Trump as "reprehensible" and calling him "cultural heroin" -- he won Trump's backing in his 2022 Senate race by wholly embracing his politics and his lies about a stolen election.

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