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Title: Trump endorses JD Vance
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URL Source: https://www.rt.com/news/554001-trump-endorses-jd-vance/
Published: Apr 16, 2022
Author: staff
Post Date: 2022-04-16 21:55:09 by Ada
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Views: 286
Comments: 1

The choice is likely to please the ex-president’s base but anger the GOP establishment

JD Vance answers a question during Ohio's US Senate Republican Primary debate in Wilberforce, Ohio, March 28, 2022 © AP / Joshua Bickel Former President Donald Trump has endorsed ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ author and upstart conservative JD Vance in Ohio’s crowded Republican primary for the US Senate. Vance was once a scathing critic of Trump but has since become a favorite among the former president’s base for his hardline stance on immigration and opposition to foreign wars.

Predicting a Republican “landslide” in Ohio this November, Trump declared on Friday that “it is time for the entire MAGA movement, the greatest in the history of our country, to unite behind JD’s campaign because, unlike so many other pretenders and wannabes, he will put America First.”

“In other words, JD Vance has my complete and total endorsement,” Trump concluded.

Vance is one of seven Republicans vying for a shot at the party’s nomination in Ohio this year. But he is facing stiff competition from establishment stalwarts Mike Gibbons and Josh Mandel, both of whom lobbied for Trump’s endorsement, with Gibbons touting his work on Trump’s 2016 campaign and Mandel invoking Trump when he promised last year “I'm not just going to drain the swamp, I'm going to blow up the swamp.”

Yet both espouse traditional Republican positions on foreign policy and, during a debate last month, advocated for more US involvement in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Vance did not, and won the debate by a margin of two to one.

“I’m very distressed, frankly, that for four years Congressional Republicans refused to give Donald Trump $4 billion for a border wall,” he said during the debate. “$4 billion for a border wall when fentanyl was pouring into our country, killing our citizens by the tens of thousands. In one week they gave Joe Biden $14 billion for Ukrainian aid.”

Trump drops hint on 2024 plans Read more Trump drops hint on 2024 plans Trump said that endorsing Vance was “not an easy” choice, as “I like and respect some of the other candidates in the race.” However, Vance has been lauded by Fox News host Tucker Carlson and backed by pro-Trump lawmakers such as Senator Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) and Representative Matt Gaetz (R-Florida), all of whom Trump’s most loyal voters hold in high regard.

Vance did not always bill himself as an “America First Conservative” though. His book ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ became a bestseller in 2016 as liberal pundits struggled to understand the appeal of Trump to the white working class. However, Vance himself was highly critical of then- candidate Trump, calling his policies “immoral and absurd,” and some of his voters “racists.”

“Like a lot of people, I criticized Trump back in 2016,” he told Fox News last year. “And I ask folks not to judge me…I regret being wrong about the guy.”

On the eve of Trump’s endorsement, more than three dozen top Ohio Republicans sent a letter to the former president urging him to refrain from backing Vance. However, Trump declared his one-time critic “our best chance for victory in what could be a very tough race.”

Vance still faces an uphill struggle to clinch the GOP’s nomination. Polls taken before Trump’s endorsement put either Gibbons or Mandel in the lead, by between 1.7 and 7 points. Republicans in Ohio cast their votes on May 3.

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Yellow Maddow Custard, dripping from a dead dogs eye...

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

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