In the meantime, vice presidential nominee JD Vance is a one-time critic of

former President Trump who's turned into a fierce defender.

Earlier today I spoke with David Wiegel, he's a national political reporter for Semaphore, who's covered J.D. Vance for years.

No vice presidential nominee has had a more meteoric rise since Richard Nixon.

Help us understand J.D. Vance literally wrote himself into history.

He was a working class kid from Ohio.

Nobody's to disputes that.

Had a rough upbringing.

He went to military, then to Ohio State,

graduated in two years, went to Yale Law School,

and while there was mentored into writing Hillbiliology,

which is sold, I think, at this point,

selling more now, 2 million copies.

So a lot of Americans got to know him in 2016

as a Rust Belt working-class conservative

who thought Donald Trump had the wrong prescriptions

to save people like the ones he grew up with,

that they were being misled by

Donald Trump and he did evolve and during the Trump presidency the way he

tells it is that the scales fell from his eyes he started to see that what he was

told about Trump were lies at various various points, he's talked about the breaks he had

with the liberal consensus.

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