From Trump critic to Trump running mate: Ohio’s JD Vance gets VP nod

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[kaydewinter]

Well you say JD Vance is only been in the senate for 2 years but so was Barack Obama and he was running for president

[toad-]

I just want the media to able to tell us the truth without CEO telling reporters what the news should be. News is not always nice, pleasant, or pretty. Hard news is sometimes ugly, not nice, and down right mean. This doesn't make it wrong. CEO just need to back off. The public deserves better. We still live in a democracy. We want the REAL NEWS.

[betha]

Vance was involved with a grift before politics. Took donated money.

[ChixieMary]

Watching the radicalization of the GOP.😢

[viola]

Isn’t it pretty funny that a presidential candidate doesn’t even have to take a written test as a requirement for such a prestigious important job? Could you imagine answering the question I didn’t know what NATO was I’m sure would be automatic disqualification lol

[PhilipZurcher]

VP nominee JD's own words about Trump ...“In 4 years, I hope people remember that it was those of us who empathized with Trump’s voters who fought him most aggressively”
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- Twitter, March 31, 2016
“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”
- New York Times op-ed, April 4, 2016
“Trump is cultural heroin. He makes some feel better for a bit. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they’ll realize it.”
- Op-ed in The Atlantic, July 4, 2016
“A lot of people think Trump is just the first to appeal to the racism and xenophobia that were already there, but I think he’s making the problem worse.”
- Interview with The American Conservative, July 22, 2016
“I think that I’m going to vote third party because I can’t stomach Trump. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.”
- NPR interview, Aug. 17, 2016
“At the heart of Trump’s immigration message is that if we had less immigration, we would have much better jobs. I think it’s a lot more complicated than that. My own sense is that Trump definitely simplifies these problems. I don’t think if you build a great Mexican wall, all of a sudden, all of these steel mill jobs are going to come back to southern Ohio. But it at least gives people something to latch onto.”
- Interview with Yahoo News, Sept. 2, 2016
“Fellow Christians, everyone is watching us when we apologize for this man. Lord help us.”
- Twitter, Oct. 7, 2016, after Trump’s infamous Access Hollywood tape became public
“Trump makes people I care about afraid. Immigrants, Muslims, etc. Because of this I find him reprehensible. God wants better of us”
- Twitter, Oct. 9, 2016
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy. I never liked him.”
- Interview with Charlie Rose, Oct. 18, 20216
“I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler.”
- 2016 text message to Josh McLaurin, Vance’s Yale Law School roommate who’s now a Democratic state senator in Georgia...VP nominee J.D Vance comments about Trump the traitor in the past

[molly__]

This comment section is extremely disturbing. PSA for MSNBC America wants unity NOT division or Violence.

[FreeEver-grace]

There’s lots of Unity going on at the RNC - with each other!

[richardadams]

We're now used to the Republican party being so hypocritical...this is just another nail in their coffin.

[brothertaro]

Vance once correctly called Trump a "moral disaster." Before he went all Lindsey Graham in the spine.

[u.s.family]

I Agree w/ the 1st JD Vance before he Flipped. JD Called trump "American Hitler" I agree w/ the 1st Vance NOT the VP YES Guy.

[ramadoo]

some people see the light, others remain in the darkness

[reamoinmcdonachadh]

So Vance has got his reward for selling his soul? Well, now you know the truth about J.D. Vance, and where he stands on matters of honesty and integrity in Politics.

[darrell]

from Biden critic to Biden running mate

[sirmims]

Kamala said nasty things about Joe too. That's politics.

[HoklyMen]

I remember that JD Vance thrush talk
On Trump before He get elect Senator !.

[brando]

You mean he announced someone he can easily control as his running mate.

[davidrhinehart]

At least Vance wasn't a DEI pick (Didn't Earn It) like kammie was.

[theother]

Follow the money, what changed his mind?

[joshuawar]

You didn’t call him Hitler this time. What happened?