Trump picks Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, 'Hillbilly Elegy' author, as running mate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

74% : "As Vice President, J.D. will continue to fight for our Constitution, stand with our Troops, and will do everything he can to help me MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
58% : "I actually think Trump is a much better model of statesman, which is he's tough, he's funny, he sometimes says things unfiltered," Vance said in an interview last month.
51% : Instead, Trump-Vance creates the kind of team found throughout American history: two men, both white, though Trump, at 78, is twice as old as the 39-year-old Vance.
45% : But perhaps more so, it is an epistle on the state of working-class white people -- the same demographic that Trump counts as the bedrock of his base.
40% : In an interview in 2016, the year Trump first ran for president, he said, "I'm not a Trump supporter, but I even feel a certain attachment, and I get a little bit cheery when he says certain things on the campaign trail, when he criticizes the elites in such strong language -- it's a little refreshing, even if you disagree with the substance of the remarks.
38% : For weeks, Trump had reportedly been courting Vance, along with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, as potential vice presidential picks -- drawing out the suspenseful announcement and creating comparisons to a casting call, from his time as head hauncho of the reality TV show, "The Apprentice.
37% : " Yet six years later, Trump singled Vance out of a competitive race for Ohio Senate, endorsing him in the 2022 midterm elections.
30% : " That same year, in a piece for The Atlantic, he wrote, "Trump is cultural heroin.
27% : Thiel previously donated to Trump, but told The Atlantic that he would not give to any politicians in the 2024 election.
23% : This week he even blamed Democrats for the attempted assassination of Trump, even as the shooter's motives remain unknown.
21% : Though he had once positioned himself to Republicans as an alternative to Trump -- once famously likening Trump to "cultural heroin" -- in time he became one of the former president's most fervent supporters and defenders.

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