Former President Donald Trump has selected US Sen. JD Vance as his running mate, Trump announced on social media Monday.
Vance, 39, is in his first term as a senator from Ohio. The venture capitalist and author of the best-selling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” was elected in 2022 after receiving a boost from Trump in a contentious Republican primary.
It was a reversal from just six years earlier. Vance was a key voice in the “Never Trump” movement during the 2016 election and has a well-documented history of opposing Trump publicly. But he earned Trump’s endorsement in 2022 after a concerted yearlong effort to embrace a new image as a leading MAGA proponent.
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