Donald Trump has broken his silence on who would support him as vice president if he were to return to the White House. The Republican will form the list alongside James David Vance, a senator from Ohio who is not yet 40 years old, already a venture capitalist and author of the best-selling book “American Elegy” (Hillbilly Elegy), which has made him famous as a spokesman for the poor white people of the Midwest.
The nomination was made official at the Republican convention in Milwaukee on July 15, which began with a moment of silence for the victim of the attack on Donald Trump. A name who can attract important Rust Belt votes and who knows how to mobilize the base. The long-awaited appointment also saw the formalization of the former president’s candidacy as the Republican candidate for the White House, who will have to challenge Democrat Joe Biden on November 5.
Who is the Republicans’ choice for vice president?
J.D. Vance was Trump’s sole candidate to win a Senate seat in Ohio in the recent midterm elections. The 39-year-old Yale-educated entrepreneur is best known for his bestselling novel “American Elegy,” a tale of an Appalachian family and culture in crisis. He once described himself as a never-Trumper, a Republican opponent of the businessman, but has since become an ardent supporter of the former president and has won his endorsement for Senate in 2022.
Vance believes he can help the new Trump administration more than the Senate, but has said he is ready to “help in any way we can.” Trump recently denied a rumor that the businessman would rule out Vance’s candidacy because of his beard, given the former president’s well-known aversion to beards and moustaches.
On the Truth social network, Trump explained why he was chosen. “After much thought and consideration, and considering the extraordinary talents of many others, I have decided that the best person to serve as Vice President of the United States is Senator J. D. Vance from the great State of Ohio. J. D. served our country honorably. He served in the Marine Corps, graduated summa cum laude from The Ohio State University in two years, and graduated from Yale Law School, where he was editor of the Yale Law Journal and president of the Yale Law Veterans Association. president.
“JD’s book, ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ became a huge bestseller and a movie because of its spotlight on the hardworking men and women of our country. JD has had a very successful business career in technology and finance, and now, during his campaign, he will focus on the people he fought so brilliantly for: American workers and farmers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota and far beyond…”
Burgum and Rubio have no opponents
In addition to Vance, there were two other names that had been speculated about in recent weeks. In the race was North Dakota’s Republican governor Doug Burgum, one of Trump’s primary rivals who quickly withdrew, faced poor results and supported the former president. Burgum, who became a billionaire with a software start-up that was later sold to Microsoft, has also expressed his negative opinions of Trump in the past and said he would never do business with the businessman in 2023 because “you are judged by the type of company you run for”. Only then would he change his mind.
The other figure that has been thrown out is Marco Rubio, a Cuban senator from Florida. He was a longtime rival of Trump in the 2016 Republican primaries, but after his election victory eight years ago, Rubio became a major ally of the businessman and quickly backed him in this new race for the White House.
Pressure on abortion
From the political event came the feared crackdown on abortion, which has now weakened after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the historic Roe v. Wade decision, ending constitutional guarantees for abortion that had been in place for nearly 50 years.
Delegates at the Republican convention approved a new party platform that adopts policy positions of presumptive nominee Donald Trump, including an approach that leaves all decisions on abortion restrictions up to the states and abandons the party’s longstanding position in favor of a national ban on pregnancy termination.
The new Republican platform still includes language tying abortion to the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, paving the way for legislation or judicial decisions that would give fetuses the same protections as humans. But the approval of the 16-page document still enrages some anti-abortion supporters in the party, who see the watered-down language as a betrayal of a significant portion of the Republican base.
Source: Today IT
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