After months of playing cat and mouse and being loved, Donald Trump has finally plucked the petals from the daisy. He waited until the last minute, in the middle of the Republican convention in Milwaukee, to make his announcement. The former president and Republican Party candidate for the presidency of the United States will have Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate to become his vice president if he wins the election on November 5. Trump announced his election days later of the attempted assassination he suffered at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Since then, the former president has moderated his speech and called for unity. Around him, yes.
“After much deliberation and reflection, and taking into account the tremendous talents of many others, I have determined that the most qualified person to assume the office of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio,” Trump announced this on his social network Truthin a message discussing his biography. With Vance, Trump is choosing someone who is young, whose loyalty he trusts, but who has been tough in his political positions, sometimes even extremist. The election does not fit so well with the promised moderation.
The announcement came minutes before his name was to be presented to the Republican National Convention and as delegates were voting. by Trump himself, who has been officially declared the candidate. The former president has instructed Vance to focus on the decisive states of the Midwest, in the so-called Rust Belt that he represents because of his heritage. “Now, during the campaign, he will pay special attention to the people he fought so brilliantly for: the American workers and farmers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota and far beyond,” Trump wrote in his message.
Pennsylvania. Michigan and Wisconsin are three key states that Trump won in 2016 and Biden won for the Democrats in 2020. Maintaining that so-called “blue wall” has become virtually Biden’s only chance of re-election. If the president holds on to it, he could give up the other three most contested southern states, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona.
James David Vance, known as JD Vance, He became famous for his memoirs Hilbilly. A rural elegy, published in 2016 and later brought to the screen by Netflix. He won the Republican nomination as a candidate for senator in 2022 thanks to the decisive support of Trump from a political point of view and of billionaire Peter Thiel from a financial point of view. 39 years old, born in Middletown (Ohio), the son of divorced parents, raised by his grandparents – whose surname he took – in a poor white family in the Appalachians, he was a Marine in his youth and was assigned to the war in Iraq in 2003. After studying political science and philosophy at Ohio State University, he obtained a doctorate in law from the prestigious Yale University, where he met his wife, lawyer Usha Chilukuri, with whom he has three children.
He started working at a law firm, but then moved to San Francisco to work as a venture capitalist in the technology sector. He was a director of Peter Thiel’s firm Mithril Capital. His bestselling memoir was considered the key to understanding the anger of the white working class, who felt they were the losers of globalization and saw Trump as an opportunity for revenge. He continued his career as a venture capitalist in various companies, while his interest in politics was piqued.
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Converted critic
Vance was a critic of Donald Trump during the 2016 election, joined the Never Trump movement and even went so far as to call him “American Hitler” in a reported direct message. He later deleted his Twitter posts critical of the former president, supported him in his 2020 reelection campaign and devoted himself unreservedly to him, particularly after he announced his candidacy for the Senate. He has maintained that loyalty as a senator, and he also has a close relationship with Donald Trump Jr., the former president’s son. Trump has not missed an opportunity to publicly humiliate him: “JD is kissing my ass, because he desperately wants my support,” he said at a rally in Ohio during the 2022 presidential election.
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Vance was an electoral denialist (he defends the hoax that Trump won the 2020 election but it was stolen from him) and a climate change denier, a critic of US military aid to Ukraine, and a recalcitrant conservative. He was an evangelical Christian but converted to Catholicism in 2019.
After the assassination attempt of trump has been one of the loudest voices against the Democrats. Vance said the shooting “was not an 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 the assassination of President Trump' tweeted.
There were a maximum of twenty names mentioned in the pools, except for JD Vance they had become stronger Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and Doug Burgum, Governor of North Dakota. The three were taken into account the unofficial finalists.
Joe Biden is keeping current Vice President Kamala Harris on his ballot, so whoever Trump chose, the pending mystery has finally been solved. The former president was forced to show his cards because the voting process had already begun by delegates attending the Republican National Convention, which will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from Monday to Thursday, July 19. Both candidates will be officially declared there. In 2016, Trump chose Mike Pence the week before the convention. In 2020 Joe Biden He did the same with Kamala Harris.
In 2016, amid scandals over his sexist comments and doubts about his integrity, Trump chose Mike Pence, who described himself as “a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order” and whom the former president went so far as to say was “too honest.” Pence reiterated during the 2020 election vote: before facing then-president for ignoring their requests to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory in the presidential election.
Sometimes a spouse is chosen to help win a state or to strengthen the candidacy in voter pockets where the candidate is weak. That led many to bet that it would ultimately be a woman, an African-American, a Latino or someone relatively young. After the desert journey that Trump overcame and his criminal troubles, personal loyalty was another ingredient to put in the shaker: someone MAGA enough [por Make America Great Again, el lema de Trump]That seems to have weighed.
The role of the vice president
Trump is certainly one of those who believe that he will win or lose the election and that it doesn't matter much who accompanies him. “It's never really had much effect in elections,” he said a few months ago. After the debate in which he defeated Biden on June 27 and of last week's assassination attempt, perhaps that is even more true.
The role of the vice president is also not overly prominent after taking office. His main responsibility is to serve as a substitute for the president in the event of the resignation, disability, removal or death of the sitting president, something that has happened relatively often in the history of the United States. Nine vice presidents have had to hold the office
She also presides over the Senate, where she also has the tie-breaking vote in the event of a tie, something Harris had to use frequently in the first half of Biden’s term. In practice, the vice president usually does not preside over sessions, except on exceptional occasions such as the State of the Union debate or the need to break ties. The rest of the positions are at the president’s discretion. Some have taken on specific policy portfolios, others have simply acted as senior advisers to the president.
Before the ratification of the 12th Amendment in 1804, electors voted only for president, and the person who received the second most votes became vice president, even if he or she was from a rival party.
If Trump wins the election, the new tenant of the Naval Observatory, the residence of vice presidents since Walter Mondale during Jimmy Carter’s presidency, will also be at the forefront of the race for succession. Five vice presidents have subsequently won elections to occupy the White House.
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