Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance, in his first interview since being selected as Donald Trump‘s running mate, responded to the flood of media coverage of what he had once said about the former president.
Vance was a never-Trump figure during the 2016 cycle, and even served as a CNN political analyst following the publication of his book Hillbilly Elegy.
But he’s since become one of Trump’s staunchest defenders, endorsed by the former president in his successful 2022 presidential run.
At the Republican National Convention, Fox News‘ Sean Hannity asked Vance, “You texted a friend that Trump is a cynical a-hole like Nixon who wouldn’t bet that bad and might even prove useful, and that he’s America’s Hitler, you compared him to cultural heroin in The Atlantic monthly. … You said that then, what do you say to people that say, ‘Well wait a minute.
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