Political analyst Dick Morris told Newsmax on Monday that Donald Trump chose Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate to illustrate that the GOP presidential nominee is not a country-club Republican but a blue-collar fighter for the working class who happens to be rich.
“Trump chose Vance because he illustrates who Trump is,” Morris told “American Agenda.” “Donald Trump’s son once said he’s a blue-collar billionaire, which is such a unique phrase. Trump wants to underscore that he’s a working-class guy, even though he’s rich, that he, represents the mainstream American values and that he had a very tough upbringing with a very strict father and understands the needs of the working class of Americans, the forgotten Americans.
“By highlighting Vance, turning aside people that might be from the South, might be a political base, might be more movement-oriented in politics, more ideological, he chose somebody that illustrates what Donald Trump wants to be and has become for the American people.”
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