Donald Trump’s running mate and self-styled hillbilly gives condensed life story to Republican convention over almost 40 minutes
US election: Vice presidential nominee JD Vance acknowledges the crowd after speaking at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Photograph: EPAThey had waited for him all day, the Ohio storyteller with the catchy name and the pale blue eyes who had somehow been chosen from the masses by, is still a novice in the highest level of American politics and was on Wednesday night still a mystery to many of the delegates gathered beneath the cowboy hats and placards and regalia of Trumplandia.
Better still, Vance told the well-known tale at this stage of his mother’s struggles with various forms of addictions through his adolescence. Towards the end of his speech, he was able to wait as the camera turned to the gallery where former president Trump and invited guests sat. And on it went, a condensed autobiography spliced with frequent tributes to the vision of Donald Trump, of whom he had been virulently critical during his giddy year in the spotlight promoting his book.
Unless the Democrat ticket changes dramatically – and that became more likely as news broke that President Biden had contracted Covid – Vance will debate Kamala Harris in September. There’s a sense in that book, written when he was already a success in life, that he could not quite get over himself. “The portrait that is consistently painted of us is toothless, hopeless, the butt of every joke. I live here – that’s not who we are. And part of why I write about this place is to counter those stereotypes and show the world a portrait of us with some subtlety.”
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