Donald Trump names 'hillbilly' senator as his vice president

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : He also argued that his changed stance on Mr Trump 'presents a real opportunity to talk to the American people because a lot of people didn't think Trump was going to be a good president and a lot of people were happy to be proven wrong'.
50% : The couple share three children together For instance, he agreed with Mr Trump's contentions that free trade had hollowed out middle America by crushing domestic manufacturing and that the nation's leaders were too quick to get involved in foreign wars.
46% : 'I allowed myself to focus so much on the stylistic element of Trump that I completely ignored the way in which he substantively was offering something very different on foreign policy, on trade, on immigration,' Vance told the New York Times in June.
40% : The two surprising adjectives GOP Convention attendees use to describe JD Vance as Trump's VP pick In the same interview, Mr Vance said that he met Trump in 2021 and that the two grew closer during his Senate campaign.
39% : Mr Vance is known for writing best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy about his working class upbringing in the Midwest which was turned into a film starring Glenn Close and Amy Adams 'He understands what Trump is running on and, unlike the rest of the Republican Party in Washington, agrees with it,' conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, a vocal Mr Vance supporter, has said.
29% : One issue where his position appears to have converged with Trump is abortion.
20% : 'Vance is an echo to Trump,' said Mr Niven, 'not a new voice.'
13% : 'I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler,' Mr Vance wrote privately to an associate on Facebook in 2016.

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