From ’never Trumper’ to ’election denier’ and defender of January Sixers: J. D. Vance’s views Donald Trump’s VP pick James David Vance, or J. D. Vance, is a former US Marine corporal, a best-selling author, Yale Law School graduate, Silicon Valley venture capitalist and presently a junior US senator from Ohio. What is Trump’s running mate famous for? ▪️Vance used to call himself a “never Trump“. In the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election he told NPR: “I can’t stomach Trump.“ In 2017 he called the then-president a “moral disaster.“ ▪️By 2020, Vance changed his mind and voted for Trump. Vance believes the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. ▪️In 2021, he announced he was running for Ohio, publicly apologized for his critical remarks towards the former president, and sought Trump’s endorsement and succeeded. ▪️Unlike many Republican anti-vaxxers, he got the shot and encouraged at-risk families to do the same. Still, he denounced Ohio State’s vaccine mandate as an “invasion of... Source: Sputnik International
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