Arthur Delaney started working for HuffPost in 2009. He covers politics and the economy. Previously he wrote for the Washington City Paper, The Hill newspaper, Slate Magazine, and ABCNews.com. His email is [email protected].
message to his former Yale Law School roommate, Democratic Georgia state Sen. Josh McLaurin, Vance said Trump could become “America’s Hitler.”“I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad or that he’s America’s Hitler,” Vance wrote.during Vance’s Senate campaign and was one of many critical statements that Trump looked past when he named Vance as his vice presidential running mate on Monday.
Vance condemned Trump on multiple occasions in 2016 in interviews related to Vance’s bestselling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” which made him a go-to commentator on rural America and Trump’s political rise.He argued that the then-Republican presidential nominee offered empty promises that wouldn’t fix the problems ailing communities like the one in Ohio, where Vance grew up.
Vance described himself as a “Never Trump guy” and called Trump an “idiot” in since-deleted tweets from that time. In an August 2016, he even said he might vote for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee for president, if he thought Trump might actually win.Advertisement
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