MILWAUKEE – (WBAP/KLIF) – Former President Donald Trump has chosen Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate, to serve as Vice President should the Republican party win the November election. Trump used a post on the online’s “Truth Social” site to announce the selection of Vance.
At just 39 years old, he’d add a younger contrast to Trump; he’s served in the Congress only two years.
Former President Trump has now officially garnered the Republican party’s nomination as presidential candidate for the 2024 election in November. He clinched the nomination back in March, securing the 1,215 Republican delegates needed to become the presumptive nominee. Key Republicans, including some 2500 delegates. are in Milwaukee this week for the convention, with Trump slated to formally receive the nomination during Monday’s state by state roll call vote.
Fox News announced first Trump would announce his choice of running mate during the first day of the Republican National Convention. Vance grew up in Middleton Ohio, as well as Jackson, Kentucky, and came into wider political view after the publishing of his book, “Hillbilly Elegy”. After high school, Vance joined the Marines Corps and served as a public affairs officer in Iraq
Amid a spending war back in 2021, two super PACS began an almost $1 million ad buying campaign attacking Vance, tearing him down for previous opposition to Trump. Ads purchased by the two PACS featured Vance’s comments in a 2016 interview with Charlie Rose, in which Vance declared “I’m a never Trump guy…..I never liked him”. In the ads, still shots of a tweet from Vance in the same year, stating “My god what an idiot”.
In 2022, while readying for his Senate campaign, Vance deleted controversial tweets and instead credited Trump for work he did as president. Vance then reaped Trump’s endorsement in the Republican Senate primary and is now considered among the former president’s most loyal allies.
The vice presidential candidate does not come without very recent blowback from a tweet this week. Just hours after the shooting at the Trump rally, Vance posted on X appearing to blame the Biden White House for the shootings that killed one bystander and critically injured two more, in addition to a bullet grazing the ear of Trump. Vance’s tweet: “The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination.”
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