Former President Donald Trump has chosen Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, as his vice presidential running mate, taking a once-strident critic and elevating him as the leading heir to his political legacy.
Vance, who will turn 40 in August, offers a youthful contrast to Trump, 78, and President Joe Biden, 81. He would be the third-youngest vice president in history — behind John Breckinridge and Richard Nixon . And Vance’s selection comes just days after Trump survived an assassination attempt Saturday, underlining the gravity of the vice presidential selection in stark terms.
In recent years, he has worked to tie his political identity closely to Trump’s, raising money for him recently in Silicon Valley and signaling that he would have handled the 2020 election results differently than Trump’s last vice president. Since entering the Senate, Vance has balanced his reputation as a culture warrior with bipartisan relationships that have advanced his populist ideals. He has worked with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
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