Posted on 01/31/2023 5:36:50 PM PST by RandFan
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), a rising conservative star who won a hard-fought race to replace retired Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), announced Tuesday that he will back Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican presidential primary.
Vance, who won Ohio’s competitive Senate Republican primary last year after receiving Trump’s endorsement, told radio host Hugh Hewitt “the simple fact is Donald Trump’s policies were incredibly good for this country and he’s very popular among Republican voters.”
“In Ohio Republican circles, I’d say well over half the people in our party want Trump to run and will vote for him in the primary if he does. You know, look, I’m planning to support the [former] president in ’24,” Vance said.
“I’m actually going to have an article come out here in the next couple of days that explains why,” he added.
Trump officially jumped into the 2024 presidential race in November. No other Republicans have announced their candidacies thus far.
Vance, a former venture capitalist and author of the best-selling book “Hillbilly Elegy,” told Hewitt that Trump “deserves a chance to govern again” and observed “Republican voters, a lot of them are on his side.”
The first-term senator aligned himself closely with Trump during last year’s Senate race, praising him as “the best president of my lifetime.”
Trump endorsed Vance in April, helping him beat businessman Mike Gibbons and former state Treasurer Josh Mandel in the primary.
Vance’s endorsement comes a day after fellow first-term Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) threw his support behind Trump as well.
“He’s very popular in Missouri,” Schmitt said of Trump in an interview with Politico. “He’s been somebody that’s gotten the support of Missourians by big margins a couple times. He has my support.”
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Well, at least J.D. is not disloyal. He’d be a backstabber if he opposed Trump after Trump held rallies for him last fall.
Name a POTUS who was more effective than Trump?
Name a recent POTUS who was as successful as Trump? Look at what Trump accomplished:
Gas price per gallon was about $2.30;
Inflation about 1.4%, mortgage rates were half of what they are now;
Unemployment was low before Covid and before Blue Governors shut everything down and we were in the midst of a V-shape recovery until January 22, 2021;
Tax decrease; tax laws promoted small businesses as well as large;
US enjoyed energy independence - No Green Agenda, no war on energy, No Paris Treaty;
No war in Ukraine, no threat of nuclear war, NATO paid its way;
China was quiet and we were winning the trade war;
US companies were bringing home the jobs due to well executed tax treatments;
Peace in the Middle East aka Abraham Accords; US Embassy moved to Jerusalem; and Iran was isolated.
Got three non-left “I don't know what a woman is” Supreme Court Justices on the bench allowing Roe vs Wade to be overturned.
Who the heck can accomplish the above in four years while being impeached twice and investigated by Obama's Weaponized Agencies?
Due to simple minded voters, elections are allowed to be stolen, idiot Democrat and RINO leadership goes on without question and Freepers dump on Trump.
Hee hee hee. That a boy, JD. Keep the Dems distraught.
The American voter is going to have to come to grips with these facts-will they? DeSantis should wait. So should the others. Any that would challenge Trump will not acknowledge how successful he was. That’s a show-stopper.
The American voter is going to have to come to grips with these facts-will they? DeSantis should wait. So should the others. Any that would challenge Trump at this time will not acknowledge how successful he was. That’s a show-stopper.
If Trump cannot win this country deserves what it gets.
The best President in all our lifetimes.
Well, he did fail to mention Trump, completely in his victory speech on election night, despite mentioning his dog and his mailman, so better not let Trump know about that.
In Election Industrial Complex, two years is a lifetime. Anything can happen. Personally, I wish Trump would quit acting like a Fifth grader. He was given a lot of grace in 2016 but now that these ‘been there’ it’s time to act like it.
Trump showed what an apolitical President can do.
He owed zero political debts and could thus do his duty to our Constitution.
Of course, since he was outside The Establishment, he had to be destroyed.
Yep, unlike DeSantis....(just having some fun :)
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