LOL! May this decision come back to haunt Trump in a big way!
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Trump says he chose Vance because they have "automatic chemistry"
From CNN's Kate Sullivan
Former President Donald Trump said in an interview aired Monday he chose JD Vance to be his running mate in part because they have “an automatic chemistry” and because Vance would “stick up for me.”
“We’ve always had a good chemistry. And originally, JD was probably not for me, but he didn’t know me and then when we got to know each other he liked me maybe more than anybody liked me. And he would stick up for me, and he would fight for the worker as much as I would fight for the worker. We had an automatic chemistry,” Trump told Fox News in his and Vance’s first joint interview.
Trump suggested his endorsement of Vance in his Ohio Senate race helped Vance win against a “very tough field.”
He also pointed to Vance’s memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” and said, “He wrote a book, which was a classic, as you know, and it was all about the working men and women and how they aren’t being treated fairly and he was right about that. And I understood that maybe better than anyone else.”
Some background: Vance was a key voice in the “Never Trump” movement during the 2016 presidential election. Vance liked tweets in 2016 and 2017 that harshly criticized Trump and his policies, and in a review of Vance’s media appearances by CNN’s KFile, has made anti-Trump comments in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Vance deleted past anti-Trump tweets ahead of his announcement in July 2021 that he would run for the open Ohio Senate se
