REPUBLICAN PARTY APPROVES J.D. VANCE AS TRUMP’S 2024 RUNNING MATE Trump focused on choosing someone he trusted
Delegates to the 2024 Republican National Convention on Monday approved Donald Trump’s selection of J.D. Vance, a US senator from Ohio, as his running mate, elevating a politician who once criticised the former president but has since become one of his most loyal defenders.
The news, first announced on Trump’s Truth Social media website, emerged at the start of the four-day Republican National Convention in Milwaukee to nominate the party’s presidential ticket.
The selection of James David Vance, author of the bestselling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” could help boost turnout for Trump in the Nov. 5 election. The Ohio native is deeply popular with the Republican candidate’s base.
Several advisers to Trump said the former president had focused on choosing a running mate he trusted and got along with.