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Eight years after warning that Donald Trump might be “America’s Hitler,” Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance on Wednesday night nevertheless officially accepted the offer to serve as his right-hand man.
He also drew on his blue-collar roots to call for more supply chain in-sourcing, for beefing up manufacturing in America and for pro-labor policies — an area in which he has sometimes has challenged GOP orthodoxy.Vance, who was introduced onstage by his wife, Usha Vance, an attorney he met as a student at Yale Law School. The vice presidential nominee leaned heavily into his life story, which was adapted into a best-selling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” and a Netflix movie of the same name.
“Our disagreements actually make us stronger, like my time in the U.S. Senate,” Vance said. “Sometimes I persuade my colleagues, and sometimes they persuade me. Shouldn’t we be governed by a party that isn’t afraid to debate ideas and come to the best solution?”Since Trump announced his nomination on Monday, Vance has carefully backpedaled on some earlier positions that didn’t align with those of the GOP presidential nominee.
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