JD Vance Most Pro-MAGA Senator

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JD Vance Most Pro-MAGA Senator

By Charlie McCarthy    |   Tuesday, 25 June 2024 10:48 AM EDT

Considered the most pro-MAGA member of the U.S. Senate, it's little surprise Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, is on former President Donald Trump’s short list for vice president.

In fact, Vance and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum are the leading contenders to join presumptive nominee Trump on the Republican ticket for November’s election, NBC News reported last week.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., also remains in contention, the outlet added.

Vance, who's being pushed for the vice president spot by Donald Trump Jr., might have an edge over Rubio and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., who previously was reported to be on the former president's short list, when it comes to a potential vice president candidacy.

"J.D. is interesting policywise because he is someone who reflects the viewpoints of the base in his voting record but is also, and this is unique, a real-deal, deep policy thinker," one ally said, NBC News reported.

Trump's aides haven't said much about the former president’s vice president preferences.

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He didn't start out that way.

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What J.D. Vance has that other Trump VP contenders don’t
by Steve Krakauer, opinion contributor - 06/27/24 9:00 AM ET
The Hill

Between April 2016 and July 2017, J.D. Vance wrote seven columns for the New York Times. The topics varied widely. He criticized Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comment. He praised Barack Obama for bringing aspirational qualities to the presidency. He described why he was moving back “home” to Ohio.

At the time, Vance was a contributing opinion writer at the Times, but that wasn’t his only foray into elite media. He was a CNN contributor in 2017. He was actually welcomed on Joy Reid’s MSNBC show in September 2016 with a friendly interview.

Obviously, this was all before Vance became a Republican senator from Ohio; he is now regularly smeared with labels like “MAGA king in the Senate.” He went from a puff piece in the Washington Post in 2017 to a hit job about his “radicalization” in the same publication five years later.

But it wasn’t Vance who changed — it was the consensus-pushers who turned on him, as a result of their unending addiction to all things Donald Trump. ...

Critics will point to Vance’s past criticism of Trump. But Vance is by no means unique in being a conservative who was hesitant about Trump’s rise in 2016. Many prominent conservative media figures — think Ben Shapiro, Glenn Beck and Dave Rubin — fit in that same camp, and all came around on Trump after seeing his first term.  ... So Vance’s evolution is both unremarkable and entirely believable. In fact, while the media tries to spin Vance’s past position on Trump as a source of weakness (gasp! he liked some negative tweets about Trump in 2017, deduced the sleuths over at CNN), it could very well become a strength as a vice presidential candidate.  ...