By Andrew Wolf, Jr.

The Republican VP pick, JD Vance, has not always seen eye-to-eye with the former president, but now they’re united by a common goal.

Once a frequent, harsh critic of former President Trump, Vance, a Marine veteran, venture capitalist, and author, has become an arch-advocate of the 45th president. But now that he’s on the ticket, can he help propel Donald Trump into the White House for a second term?

Vance, 39, surprisingly appeared on Trump’s short list of possible picks along with entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy – himself a recent contender for the White House – and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). The junior senator from Ohio overcame incredible personal hardships to position himself just one election away from the second most powerful office in America.

Born into an impoverished, fatherless family and to a drug addict mother, Senator Vance made a critical decision in 2003, one that changed his life. He enlisted in the US Marine Corps fresh out of high school. The period that followed, which saw the young man assigned to the Public Affairs section of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, marked what Vance called “the defining chapter” of his life. It was then that he first developed a sense of purpose.

Yet the man from America’s Rust Belt hasn’t always been a fan of 45. Indeed, Vance’s past comments about his now running mate have been just as caustic and cynical as some of what has been featured in the modern liberal media. “I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical [expletive deleted] like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler,” Vance wrote back in 2016. “How’s that for discouraging?”

On another occasion, he wrote in The Atlantic........

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