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J.D. Vance is now the heir apparent to the Maga movement
What Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick suggests about how he would govern.
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Donald Trump with vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 15.
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The Economist
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For as long as Donald Trump has dominated the Republican Party, much of the old establishment had assumed it could wait him out and eventually return to espousing Reaganite conservatism. After all, Trump is a unique political talent but has not produced a consistent, comprehensive political programme. Yet the Republican presidential candidate’s choice of Mr J.D. Vance, a senator from Ohio, as his running mate
“I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of vice-president of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance,” Trump wrote on July 15, ending an Apprentice-style process of elimination. He added that Mr Vance “will be strongly focused on the people he fought so brilliantly for, the American workers and farmers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota and far beyond”.
