One day soon they'll find Trump dead in bed...Here comes Mr. Hillbilly Elergy. What to expect...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn07dv4mrg2o

My Take: This guy doesn't know who he is or what he actually stands for. It is likely he will lie and cheat at will. He just won't be crazy.


"Vance was born James Donald Bowman in Middletown, Ohio, to a mother who struggled with addiction and a father who left the family when JD was a toddler. A revolving cast of father figures - he changed his surname several times - and his mother's drug abuse issues resulted in a chaotic childhood...He was raised by his grandparents, “Mamaw” and “Papaw”, whom he sympathetically portrayed in Hillbilly Elegy, published in 2016.

During his short tenure in the Senate, Vance was a reliable conservative vote, backing populist economic policies and emerging as one of the biggest congressional sceptics of aid to Ukraine - a role he would continue to play in the second Trump administration.

Just days later, during the Republican National Convention, Trump tapped Vance for the VP nomination. Once out on the campaign trail, he established himself as an attack dog, relentlessly criticising the opposition and engaging with reporters in combative Q&A sessions at rallies and on cable TV shows.

During a CNN interview, Vance explained that he felt the need to "create stories so that the... media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people”.
He insisted that constituents had told him stories of pet-eating by immigrants, even though he did not elaborate and his Senate office did not respond to the BBC's requests for details.

He also shifted his views on abortion policy. A Catholic convert, Vance had at one time expressed support for a nationwide abortion ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy. He later backed Trump's view that the matter should be left up to individual states to decide."