What Next - J.D. Vance: You're Hired
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
J.D. Vance, the Yale Law School graduate once hailed by the media as a white working class-whisperer, has been selected as Donald Trump’s running mate. But not too long ago, he was one of the former president’s critics. The former-Marine and San Francisco venture capitalist won over Trump with the hardline, America-first policies he championed in the Senate—and some serious groveling.
Guest: Jim Newell, Slate’s senior politics writer
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| 0:35.0 | Prices vary based on how you buy. Monday afternoon, right around lunchtime. My colleague Shaina and I walked on to the floor of the FERV center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on a mission to try to figure |
| 0:57.1 | out who Donald Trump's vice presidential nominee was going to be. |
| 1:01.9 | So you guys are going to be talking about the vice president soon, right? I think so. |
| 1:07.0 | This was a group from Texas. You could tell from their cowboy hats. |
| 1:11.0 | Who do you think it's going to be? Where's your money? |
| 1:13.2 | Uh, probably J.D. Vance. That's what we're hearing. All right. All right. |
| 1:19.0 | By the time we spoke, general consensus had narrowed the picks down to a top three, |
| 1:24.1 | Ohio Senator JD Vance, North Dakota Governor Doug Bergam, |
| 1:29.0 | and Florida Senator Marco Rubio. |
| 1:31.6 | Have you guys been to these parties before? |
| 1:34.0 | This is my third convention. |
| 1:36.0 | Is it weird to not know who the nominee is like now? |
| 1:39.0 | A little different. |
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