Donald Trump, who has officially received the Republican nomination for the race for the White House, selected James David Vance, a Republican senator from Ohio, as his running mate on Monday.elevating a politician who once criticized the former president in acidic terms but has since become one of his staunchest defenders.
The news, published on Trump’s Truth Social website, comes at the start of the four-day Republican National Convention in Milwaukee to select the party’s presidential candidate.
The selection of Vance, author of the best-selling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” could increase the likelihood that Trump supporters will turn out for the Nov. 5 election, as The Ohio native is very popular among the Republican candidate’s base.
But Vance, a staunch conservative from a Republican state, is unlikely to attract many new voters to the Trump camp.
