JD Vance asserts faith in Trump after admitting he once ‘didn’t fully believe’

At Michigan rally, the Republican VP nominee referred to his former hostility while taking aim at Kamala Harris

JD Vance has admitted he once doubted Donald Trump's abilities to be US president but insists he was won over by the policies and track record of a man he previously decried as America's Hitler" and cultural heroin".

The Republican vice-presidential nominee obliquely referred to his former hostility at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as he attempted to blame Kamala Harris, the US vice-president, for the policies of the Biden administration at the same time as accusing her of preparing to steal Trump's ideological clothes.