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Trump chooses Vance as running mate

Trump’s J.D. Vance pick unnerves GOP’s business elite, thrills populists - The Washington Post - "The Ohio senator leads a GOP faction sharply breaking with party ideology on free markets, trade and other policies"
“It’s clear to most leaders of the party that the future will be the Vances, the Hawleys and the Rubios — to have one of them be on the ticket is a very significant marker, or in some ways validation, of the direction the Republican Party is now heading on key economic issues,” said Oren Cass, a Vance ally and president of American Compass, a think tank closely tied to the economic populists in the GOP. “Vance articulates a very clear perspective on the failure of what he’ll call the ‘market fundamentalism’ of the GOP — the consensus economic policy of the last few decades.”

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“The emergence of Trump has caused a populist, aggressive side of the GOP to split off on economics, and Vance is one of the leaders of that populist caucus,” said Brian Riedl, who served as an aide to Portman and is now at the Manhattan Institute, a center-right think tank. “Trump is much more economically populist, anti-free trade than traditional Republicans, and Vance has pushed hard to support this new populist economics in the GOP.”
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That's Rob Portman, JD Vance's predecessor in his Senate seat.

Many top donors to the Republican Party reportedly oppose JD Vance, though they prefer to avoid speaking publicly about that. A big media supporter of the party allegedly lobbed for Doug Burgum instead of JD Vance, and DB supports what such donors prefer: more Reaganism.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
JD Vance is a true believer. Also, being less than a 2 yr Senator, while the position of VP small, it is bigger than his political clout. Also, the VP will likely be more busy in this Administration if they win and fire most of the Executive Branch.
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In saying what he needs to say in the moment.

marc said:
Think part of why he was selected is because he was a never-trumper. Trump likes that he has been broken and wants to humiliate him further as his lackey.
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If and when he is officially VP, Vance doesn't have to take any crap from Trump.
 
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