JD Vance: Who is Trump's running mate?
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
But who really is the 39-year-old former venture capitalist and now potential future vice president? On this episode of the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson speaks to Sky's US correspondent James Matthews, plus Josh Glancy, editor of The News Review, who interviewed Vance in 2017.
Plus, Niall also speaks to Sky's security and defence editor Deborah Haynes about what implications politics across the pond will have on UK defence, which is undergoing a major review.
Producers: Rosie Gillott and Emma Rae Woodhouse
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 0:33.7 | You know, when Helen used to get home from work, I'd ask, how are you? |
| 0:35.6 | Fine, she'd say. |
| 0:37.1 | She clearly wasn't. After 10 years in IT, she was on autopilot. Then she found |
| 0:42.3 | this job, training up-and-coming tech wizas at the college, same skills but with new people, new challenges. |
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| 1:00.2 | Ever turned up to a dinner and immediately realized that you've badmouthed the person sitting |
| 1:04.6 | opposite you? Well, spare a thought for J.D. Vance. |
| 1:08.5 | I can't stomach Trump. I might have to hold my nose and vote for Hillary |
| 1:12.4 | Clinton. I'm a never-Trump guy. I never liked him. Vance was previously one of Donald Trump's |
| 1:18.1 | biggest detractors. In his memoir, Hillbilly Elegie, he wrote of his mother's struggles with |
| 1:23.1 | addiction, his father leaving the family when he was just a toddler, but also of the struggles many white working-class Americans faced |
| 1:30.3 | that Donald Trump so ably tapped into in the 2016 election. |
| 1:34.3 | Now he's the former president's running mate, |
| 1:37.3 | and fully behind his plans to make America great again. |
| 1:40.3 | I obviously didn't fully appreciate the president's appeal in 2016. |
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