Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) examined how GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s selection of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) as his 2024 running mate reflects on Vance’s character. Vance has turned from being one of Trump’s fiercest critics to one of his staunchest supporters and now claims he didn’t realize how great a president he’d turn … Read more
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) became former President Donald Trump’s running mate Monday, despite the freshman lawmaker having previously called Trump a “terrible candidate” and saying he’d never vote for him. But that’s not the only area where Vance has done a major flip-flop. In recent months, he’s appeared to soften what was once a hard-line … Read more
Former President Donald Trump just announced his running mate, JD Vance, a first-term senator from Ohio who has espoused anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ policies while in office. The 39-year-old former venture capitalist, first made famous by his 2016 memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” is known for his hard stance on abortion. He campaigned against Ohio’s constitutional amendment to … Read more
Donald Trump selected J.D. Vance, a Republican U.S. senator from Ohio, as his running mate on Monday, elevating a politician who once criticized the former president in acid terms but has since become one of his most stalwart defenders. The news, carried on Trump’s Truth Social media website, emerged at the start of the four-day Republican National Convention … Read more
Sens. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) blamed the media and President Joe Biden immediately following former President Donald Trump’s apparent assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally. “Today is not just some isolated incident. The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped … Read more
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) backed Donald Trump when asked about the former president’s claim that he’d “go after” Joe Biden and his family should he defeat the president in the election. Vance ― in an appearance on Sunday’s edition of “Meet the Press” ― told host Kristen Welker that media outlets and Democrats have “lost … Read more
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) tried to distract from his past praise for former President Barack Obama by comparing Obama’s skills as a family man to those of Donald Trump’s. During an appearance on “Meet the Press” on Sunday, host Kristen Welker pressed the senator to say if he still thinks of Obama as an “admirable … Read more
Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance (R) said Wednesday he’d be disappointed if former President Donald Trump doesn’t tap him as his running mate in the coming days. “I’m human, right?” Vance said on Fox News when asked how he’d feel if someone else is chosen. “So when you know this thing is a possibility, if it … Read more
Fox News host Bret Baier on Tuesday listed off some of the harshest things that Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) has said about Donald Trump, and asked the senator about his supposed “evolution” on the former president. Vance, reportedly a contender to be Trump’s 2024 vice presidential pick, was once fiercely critical of the former president, … Read more
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