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Author and U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance on Tuesday disputed criticism that he flip-flopped on his support for Donald Trump, saying he didn t take the former president seriously at first but always believed in his agenda. I just didn’t think this guy would actually deliver on it, and he proved me wrong, Vance said in an interview with the USA TODAY Network Ohio Bureau.
Vance entered the crowded Senate race to replace Ohio Sen. Rob Portman last week, joining a slew of Republicans and Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan in a fight for the seat. The venture capitalist is best known for his memoir Hillbilly Elegy, which depicts his family s struggles in Appalachian Kentucky and his mother s addiction during his childhood in Middletown.
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Author and U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance on Tuesday disputed criticism that he flip-flopped on his support for Donald Trump, saying he didn t take the former president seriously at first but always believed in his agenda. I just didn’t think this guy would actually deliver on it, and he proved me wrong, Vance said in an interview with the USA TODAY Network Ohio Bureau.
Vance entered the crowded Senate race to replace Ohio Sen. Rob Portman last week, joining a slew of Republicans and Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan in a fight for the seat. The venture capitalist is best known for his memoir Hillbilly Elegy, which depicts his family s struggles in Appalachian Kentucky and his mother s addiction during his childhood in Middletown.
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Some GOP contenders are still asserting that former President Donald Trump was robbed of victory last year.
By Eric Bradner, Sara Murray and Ben Krolowitz, CNN
Republican candidates in a spate of 2021 races and in the 2022 midterms are increasingly focusing their campaigns on the baseless claim that voter fraud was a rampant problem in the 2020 election.
Some GOP contenders are still falsely asserting that former President Donald Trump was robbed of victory last year a lie Trump himself has told at rallies he has held in recent weeks that have focused largely on his attempts to settle old scores and elevate Republicans who are willing to amplify his falsehoods.
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Access Hollywood scandal by tweeting, “Fellow Christians, everyone is watching us when we apologize for this man. Lord help us.” In an October 2016 tweet, Vance also wrote, “Trump makes people I care about afraid. Immigrants, Muslims, etc. Because of this I find him reprehensible. God wants better of us.” During Trump’s first months in office, Vance continued his condemnation of the new president, writing, “In 4 years, I hope people remember that it was those of us who empathized with Trump’s voters who fought him most aggressively.”
However, on Monday, Vance attempted to reassure Fox News viewers that he has completed a 180-degree turn when it comes to all things Trump-related. “He was a good president. I think he made a lot of good decisions for people, and I think he took a lot of flak,” the best-selling author said. One of Vance’s potential competitors in the 2022 Ohio race is already capitalizing on h
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A leftover from yesterday. Normally it wouldn’t be a huge deal that a Senate candidate used to think poorly of a former president from his party and then changed his mind, but the 2022 GOP primary in Ohio is no ordinary race. It’s the most balls-out MAGA panderfest of any election in the country, a raw competition to prove oneself the most fawning Trump acolyte in the field. Part of the reason is that Trump’s endorsement is expected to be decisive in a state he won easily twice; the candidates aren’t just competing for votes, they’re competing in a real-world version of “The Apprentice” to be crowned heir apparent by the king himself.