Trump sees former ‘Never Trumper’ JD Vance as a way to expand his base, insiders say
by Hugo Lowell in Milwaukee from US news | The Guardian on (#6P9WD)
Trump campaign sees senator's past criticisms of the ex-president as an asset with voters who once disliked Trump
Donald Trump and his campaign see his running mate, Senator JD Vance, as a way to expand Trump's voter base, according to sources familiar with the matter, intending to lean into Vance's previous criticisms of Trump to convince voters who dislike both 2024 candidates to back the former president.
In the years before Vance ran for the US Senate, he repeatedly criticized Trump and his presidency in interviews where he made clear he never liked the former president and considered him cultural heroin" and in private conversations, where he suggested Trump was America's Hitler".
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