Donald Trump has picked as his running mate JD Vance, the young Ohio senator and author of a best-selling memoir about his experience of rural poverty, in a choice aimed at winning blue-collar voters across the swing states of the industrial Midwest.
Trump announced Vance, an ideologue of the former president’s Maga movement, on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, just two days after a gunman attempted to assassinate him.
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