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“I actually think Trump is a much better model of statesman,” Vance told Breitbart News in June, contrasting Trump with more traditional-sounding leaders. “He’s tough. He’s funny. He sometimes says things unfiltered. But when it comes to actual decision-making, he’s much more careful and cautious than any person currently representing the country.”

Before he became a politician, Vance spoke out against Trump. 

The former Marine and Yale Law School grad rose to fame as a writer in 2016. His bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy made him a popular commentator that year on the supposed failings of rural American culture and the rise of Trumpism. 

Talking to the media about his book, Vance frequently criticized Trump as offering a false solution to America’s problems. He even said he would consider voting for Hillary Clinton because he couldn’t “stomach” Trump. 

“I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place,” Vance told NPR in 2016. 

It was a prescient remark. 

After sowing doubts about the 2020 election for months, Trump summoned his supporters to Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, riled them up with an incendiary speech and then sent them to the Capitol, where they ransacked the building in a failed effort to stop Congress from certifying Biden’s victory. Now more than 1,400 Trump supporters have been charged with federal crimes for doing what Trump wanted. 

But when he launched his Senate bid in 2021 and faced a crowded Republican primary, Vance changed his tune about Trump. 

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