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Bochen Han

Former US president and Republican nominee Donald Trump has chosen Ohio senator J.D. Vance to be his running mate for the 2024 election, he announced in a social-media post on Monday.
The pick, unveiled on the first day of the Republican National Convention held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was announced within 48 hours of an assassination attempt on Trump that left him bloodied after a bullet grazed his ear.
Saturday’s events underscored the critical importance of the vice-president’s position, but it was unclear whether they influenced the selection. Trump last month said he had already made up his mind.
“After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of vice-president of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of the great state of Ohio,” Trump posted on Truth Social.


“J.D. has had a very successful business career in technology and finance, and now, during the campaign, will be strongly focused on the people he fought so brilliantly for, the American workers and farmers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota and far beyond,” he continued.
Vance was formally nominated as the 2024 Republican vice-presidential candidate on the convention floor hours later.
Others said to have been in contention were North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum and Senators Marco Rubio of Florida and Tim Scott of South Carolina.
Vance, who in 2016 strongly opposed Trump, has built a reputation championing economic populism and cultural conservatism.
Before his run for office, Vance gained recognition as the author of Hillbilly Elegy, a bestselling memoir detailing his upbringing in a poor, working-class family in post-industrial Ohio.
As an Ohio native, Vance has been critical of China’s contribution to the loss of manufacturing jobs in the state and across the US.
During his US Senate campaign and in recent months, he expressed support for imposing new tariffs on China, which Trump has repeatedly committed to doing.
The new vice-presidential candidate has also expressed concern over American reliance on Taiwanese manufacturing, particularly chips.

“If the Taiwanese fall to China, it will cause a great depression in this country,” he said in April last year, adding that the US needed to make more weapons domestically to help Taiwan in case of an armed conflict with China.
Vance has been outspoken on China since becoming a senator in 2023. He has introduced several pieces of legislation targeting China, including to restrict Chinese influence on the US education system and the financial market.
Another area of focus for the senator has been China’s potential impact on critical American infrastructure.
In May, he wrote to the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency expressing concern over Volt Typhoon, which he described as a Chinese state-sponsored hacker group.
The 39-year-old Ohio senator serves on several Senate committees, including Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, as well as Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
As a senator, Vance has been aligned with the isolationist wing of the Republican Party, becoming one of the leading voices against American support for Ukraine against Russia. Earlier this year, he voted against a US$60 billion aid package for Kyiv.
But in his view limiting support for Ukraine would not necessarily mean pulling out everywhere. At the Munich Security Forum in February, he stated that the US needed to divert resources towards Asia.
“I don’t think we should pull out of Nato or abandon Europe,” Vance said, adding that the US should pivot “to focus more on East Asia”.
“That’s going to be the future of US foreign policy for [the] next 40 years. Europe has to wake up to that.”

Still, his reputation for supporting withdrawals from international engagements has led some analysts to question the extent to which a re-elected Trump would support a hardline view of the China danger.
“Vance’s views on Ukraine and other international matters and the GOP platform seem at odds with Speaker Johnson’s strong focus on the China danger,” said Robert Sutter of George Washington University, referring to a speech by House Speaker Mike Johnson at the Hudson Institute earlier this month.
Vance made an appearance on the convention floor on Monday to receive his nomination. Earlier in the day, Trump officially won the Republican nomination in a roll-call vote.
The party platform was also formally adopted on Monday. Released earlier this month, it includes a commitment to “secure strategic independence from China”.
“Republicans will revoke China’s most-favoured-nation status, phase out imports of essential goods and stop China from buying American real estate and industries,” the document says.
During the election season’s first presidential debate with President Joe Biden last month, Trump made several references to China, including that the country was “killing” the US.
The former president also defended his plan to impose a 10 per cent tariff on all imports so that countries like China could “pay us a lot of money” and help reduce the American deficit.
On Monday, Politico reported that Trump met with independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jnr in an effort to secure his endorsement.
Support from Kennedy, who in some polls is garnering double-digit support, would boost Trump in his tight race with Biden.


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Former US president Donald Trump listens as JD Vance speaks during a rally in Youngstown, Ohio, in 2022.  Photo: Reuters

Republican senator J.D. Vance of Ohio speaks at the Georgia Institute of Technology following the first presidential debate in Atlanta on June 27, 2024. Vance was once a vocal critic of Donald Trump. Photo: Bloomberg

Preparations are made ahead of the start of the first day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Monday. Photo: Getty Images via AFP

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Donald Trump is escorted offstage by security officers after he was shot in the ear during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. Photo: Reuters

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A 2020 school photo shows Thomas Matthew Crooks, named by the FBI as the person involved in the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Photo: Reuters

Jason Kolher, who attended the same school as Thomas Matthew Crooks, talks to the media in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania on Sunday. Photo: Reuters

Donald Trump is seen with blood on his face surrounded by secret service agents as he is taken off the stage after an assassination attempt at a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday. Photo: AFP

Two FBI investigators scan the roof of AGR International, the building adjacent to the Butler Fairgrounds, from which Matthew Thomas Crooks fired at Trump. Photo: Getty Images via AFP 

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Presumptive Republican nominee and former US president Donald Trump is rushed offstage by Secret Service agents after being grazed by a bullet during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. Photo: TNS

US President Joe Biden delivers a statement a day after Republican challenger Donald Trump was shot at a campaign rally, during brief remarks at the White House in Washington. Photo: Reuters

Screen grab from footage released by a member of Donald Trump’s communications team shows the Republican hopeful waving as he disembarks upon arrival in Newark, New Jersey. Photo: AFP 

Former first lady Melania Trump called the shooter a monster. Photo: AP

A person holds a Trump 2024 flag near Trump Tower on Sunday in New York. Photo: Getty Images

Police officers standing guard at Trump Tower in New York after the shooting of Republican presidential candidate and former US President Donald Trump. Photo: Reuters

US House Speaker Mike Johnson said it was time to “turn the rhetoric down”, after the assassination attempt against Trump. Photo: EPA-EFE

Donald Trump on the front page of the British Mail on Sunday newspaper, at a news-stand in London. Photo: AP

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Former president Donald Trump is helped off the stage by Secret Service agents after he was shot at a rally. Photo: AP

Trump gestures as he gets into a vehicle with the assistance of Secret Service personnel after he was shot. Photo: Reuters

Secret Service agents form a human shield around former president Trump after he was shot. Photo: Reuters

Snipers on a roof at Trump’s campaign rally in Butler. Photo: Reuters

Meet J.D. Vance, the Donald Trump hater turned potential VP: the Ohio senator once called the presidential hopeful ‘America’s Hitler’ – and wrote the book that Netflix film Hillbilly Elegy is based on

Republican Senator JD Vance speaks at a rally in Delaware, Ohio, in April 2023. Photo: AP Photo

J.D. Vance with former US president Donald Trump at a rally in Ohio, in April 2022. Photo: AP Photo

J.D. Vance with his wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance, at an election night event in Ohio, in May 2022. Photo: Bloomberg

J.D. Vance joins senator Tommy Tuberville and representative Nicole Malliotakis to speak to the media in New York City last week. Photo: Getty Images 

J.D. Vance speaks onstage at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2018 forum in San Francisco. Photo: Getty Images

The cover of J.D. Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. Photo: Handout

J.D. Vance and his wife Usha Chilukuri Vance celebrate Valentine’s Day in 2023. Photo: @JDVance1/X 

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Highly anticipated selection revealed as Republican National Convention convenes and within 48 hours of assassination attempt on Trump


Highly anticipated selection revealed as Republican National Convention convenes and within 48 hours of assassination attempt on Trump.
