Hillbilly Veep
U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance arrives at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee yesterday after Trump announced him as his running mate. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images)
He once called Trump ‘America’s Hitler.’ But yesterday, J.D. Vance was given a hero’s welcome at the RNC.
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin—It’s just before 4 p.m. and everyone at the Republican National Convention is jockeying for a glimpse of Senator J.D. Vance. A woman kicks off her bedazzled heels, then stands on her seat barefoot to get a better view. A delegate tells me he just borrowed a woman’s lipstick to scrawl “VANCE” in capital letters on a white Trump sign.
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