JD Vance’s Senate run is a test of Trump’s influence on the Republican party
by Joan E Greve in Delaware, Ohio from US news | The Guardian on (#5YQH3)
Trump's primary endorsement has split voters and the party in Ohio in a race already defined by meanness and pettiness and just plain craziness'
America's Hitler." A total fraud." A moral disaster." Those were a few of the descriptions that JD Vance, bestselling author of the memoir Hillbilly Elegy, once offered for Donald Trump. But none of that past criticism was evident here last Saturday night, as Vance shared a stage with Trump to accept the former president's endorsement in the Ohio Senate Republican primary.
He's the guy that said some bad shit about me," Trump said of Vance during his rally at the Delaware county fairgrounds. If I went by that standard, I don't think I would have ever endorsed anybody in the country."
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