Known as the “American Hitler”, he later became Trump’s vice prime minister candidate: Who is JD Vance?

“I’ve never been a Trump supporter,” JD Vance proudly declared at the time, calling him “America’s Hitler.”

But the Ohio senator knows the political game well enough to become Trump’s official running mate eight years later. If he wins the election in November, J.D. Vance would become the youngest vice president to be sworn in since Richard Nixon in 1953.

JD Vance’s Transformation – From “I’ll Never Be” Trumpists“For a loyalist — making him a rather unusual figure in Trump’s milieu. Democrats and even some Republicans have questioned whether the politician who wrote the bestselling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” and is now a senator is driven more by opportunism than ideology.