In his first speech as the vice presidential nominee, J.D. Vance was scheduled to take center stage at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday. This was the culmination of his incredible ascent from modest midwestern beginnings to a much sought position on Donald Trump’s ticket.
At the Milwaukee convention on Monday, as the former president makes a spectacular comeback to the White House four years after losing to President Joe Biden, Trump selected the senator from Ohio as his deputy.
If 78-year-old Trump wins his rematch with Biden in November, the one-term senator, who turns 40 next month, would become the third-youngest and least experienced vice president in history.
When his new employer was elected in 2016, Vance was an unwavering “Never Trumper,” calling the hard-right, populist businessman “a moral disaster” and drawing comparisons to Adolf Hitler.
After going into politics, he changed who he was, and in the end, he received Trump’s support in the Ohio Senate election of 2022.
Since then, Vance has developed into the leading advocate for Trump’s form of isolationist foreign policy, anti-immigrant rhetoric, and conservative social ideals, particularly his resistance to US support for Ukraine’s battle against Russian invasion.
“I was certainly skeptical of Donald Trump in 2016. But President Trump was a great president, and he changed my mind,” Vance told Fox News.
His speech was expected to come late in Milwaukee, but there was no set time announced.
