Tell Us What You Really Think

Before J. D. Vance became a booster for Trump, he was a brutal critic.

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“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy. I never liked him. . . .  The media has sort of asked me to be this spokesman for the white working-class voter who’s voting for Trump, right? But as somebody who doesn’t like Trump myself, I sort of  —  I understand where Trump’s voters come from, but I also don’t like Trump himself, and that made me realize that maybe I’m not quite part of either world totally.”

— Interview with Charlie Rose, October 18, 2016

“I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon . . . or that he’s
America’s Hitler.”

— Facebook message to Georgia state
senator Josh McLaurin, 2016

“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”

— Op-ed for the New York Times, April 4, 2016

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