When Donald Trump first ran for president in 2016, one of his steadfast critics within the Republican Party was J.D. Vance. Now, Vance will join the Republican ticket as Trump’s running mate.
Vice Presidential nominee Congressman J.D. Vance with his wife Usha Chilukuri Vance enters the convention floor greeting delegates on the first day of the RNC Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Monday. first ran for president in 2016, one of his steadfast critics within the Republican Party was J.D. Vance — then a young military veteran, Yale Law School graduate
He rose to fame in 2016 after the publication of “Hillbilly Elegy,” which was later adapted into a 2020 Netflix movie directed by Ron Howard. As he promoted the book, Vance didn’t mince words about his distaste for Trump.During his book tour, Vance compared Trump’s candidacy to cultural heroin and told a former roommate that Trump was either a “cynical asshole” or “America’s Hitler,” according to texts shared on social media by the roommate.
In a 2018 print run of “Hillbilly Elegy,” Vance revealed he voted for a third-party candidate in 2016. But while he still had “reservations” about Trump two years into his term, Vance also wrote that there were aspects of his candidacy that had appealed to him, including Trump’s “disdain for the ‘elites’ and criticism of foreign policy blunders in Iraq and Afghanistan” by previous administrations.
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