ER Editor: Donald Trump, freshly nominated as the Republican presidential candidate for November’s election yesterday, has chosen J.D. Vance as his VP. Some strategy remarks from Clandestine, and general reporting by Zerohedge below.
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Why J.D. Vance?
CLANDESTINE
For those asking “Why J.D. Vance?”:
Trump told us his logic with the announcement.
Currently, the tightest races are in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. The Rust Belt states will decide the 2024 election.
Vance is from Ohio, and Trump told us in his announcement, that Vance’s job during the campaign will be to focus on winning over the hardworking people in these states.
Vance is a Midwest/Rust Belt guy, who hopefully can appeal to these voters, and put Trump over the top in these battleground states. That’s the thought process behind the pick.
Logically, it makes sense. Now we just have to make it work.
For the record, we don’t buy the ‘China is a threat’ rhetoric. It’s pretty well known on the backchannels that Trump, Putin and Xi are working collaboratively.
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Trump Picks J.D. Vance As Running Mate
48 hours after being shot through the ear at a campaign event, Donald Trump has announced J.D. Vance as his running mate.
“After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
Full statement:
After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio. J.D. honorably served our Country in the Marine Corps, graduated from Ohio State University in two years, Summa Cum Laude, and is a Yale Law School Graduate, where he was Editor of The Yale Law Journal, and President of the Yale Law Veterans Association. J.D.’s book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” became a Major Best Seller and Movie, as it championed the hardworking men and women of our Country. J.D. has had a very successful business career in Technology and Finance, and now, during the Campaign, 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….
Vance, 39, had emerged as the front-runner earlier in the day after sources said that Marco Rubio and Gov. Doug Burgum had been finalists. Both were told on Monday that they were out of the running.
Earlier in the day, Vance was seen leaving his home in a motorcade, fueling speculation that he was the pick.
Ohio Senator JD Vance spotted leaving his home in a Motorcade today amid VP speculation: pic.twitter.com/QantkzvLBN
A former Silicon Valley venture capitalist best known for his memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” quickly emerged as a top defender of the former president in the wake of the 2020 election.
Senator J.D. Vance at a rally for former President Donald J. Trump in Dayton, Ohio.Credit…Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times
Following Saturday’s attempted assassination, Vance jumped into action – suggesting on X that President Biden bore responsibility.
“The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination,” wrote Vance, who went from harsh Trump critic to ardent supporter.
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 at all costs.
That rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination.
Donald Trump Jr. has repeatedly advocated for Vance – who in 2016 privately texted a former Yale roommate that he feared Trump could be “America’s Hitler.”
By 2018, however, Vance had softened his tone – viewing Trump as speaking to the frustrations of the very Americans he had written about in his book.
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