A Conversation With JD Vance

与J.D. Vance的对话

The Interview

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2024-10-12

56 分钟
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The Republican vice-presidential candidate rejects the idea that he’s changed, defends his rhetoric and still won’t say if Trump lost in 2020.
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  • it was always about managing the fear and finding ways to use it until I could be motivated by the exact opposite of that.

  • And I never had to worry about the fear again because it didn't define me.

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  • I'm Lulu Garcia Navarro.

  • From the moment J.D. vance came onto the national stage, he was inextricably linked to Donald Trump.

  • At first, as the author of the best selling book Hillbilly Elegy,

  • Vance was the Trump whisperer,

  • explaining the Trump phenomenon and his 2016 win to the liberal elite.

  • Back then, Vance didn't like Trump.

  • He called him an idiot, condemned what he saw as Trump's dangerous rhetoric,

  • and wondered in a private message whether Trump could become, quote, America's Hitler.

  • Eventually, Vance had a political conversion,

  • embracing Trump and seeking his endorsement in his run for Senate in 2022,

  • a race which he won two years later.

  • Here we are.

  • Vance is not only Trump's vice presidential candidate,

  • but considered by many the heir apparent to maga,