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本周一,特朗普宣布俄亥俄州参议员JD·万斯为竞选搭档。万斯曾批评特朗普,后来成为他忠实盟友。在人们担心美国领导人年龄过大之际,成为第一位参与主要政党竞选的千禧一代。
“经过长时间深思熟虑,考量了其他许多人的杰出才能之后,我决定,最适合担任美国副总统的是俄亥俄州参议员J.D.万斯,”特朗普在真相社交(Truth Social)平台上的一篇帖子中表示。
现年39岁的万斯因2016年出版的回忆录《乡下人的悲歌》而闻名全美。2022年他当选参议员,成为特朗普“让美国再次伟大”口号最坚定的拥护者之一,特别是在贸易、外交政策和移民方面。
但他在国家政治方面未经考验,而且加入特朗普竞选团队的时机也非同寻常。上周六一次集会上,特朗普遭遇刺杀未遂,震撼了竞选团队,人们开始关注美国粗俗的政治言论,更加重视距离总统之位一步之遥的人。
万斯在X上一篇帖子中暗示拜登应对暴力事件负责,因此广受批评。
“拜登竞选活动中的核心前提是,特朗普是必须不惜一切代价阻止的独裁法西斯,”万斯写道,“这种言论直接导致了对特朗普的刺杀行动。”
执法部门尚未明确枪击事件的动机。尽管如此,选择万斯显然会让特朗普的忠实支持者很振奋。万斯已成为保守派媒体圈的常客,而且经常在国会山跟记者争吵,营造出从2028年下一届总统选举有可能继承特朗普衣钵的领导者形象。
但这一选择也意味着,尽管特朗普努力赢得黑人和拉丁裔选民支持,共和党候选人却是两名白人。
在《乡下人的悲歌》中,万斯曾详细描述阿巴拉契亚社区的生活。社区中很多居民发现民主党越发与日常生活脱节,因而远离民主党。尽管该书相当畅销,有人批评书中描述的乡下生活有时过于简化,而且忽视了现代政治中种族主义的作用。
“大骗子”
从真人秀明星到共和党候选人并最终就任总统,特朗普踏上这一非同寻常的崛起之路过程中,万斯的名气也随之增长。在特朗普政治生涯的早期阶段,万斯痛骂特朗普为“大骗子”、“道德灾难”,还有“美国版希特勒”。
但就像特朗普时代很多争取扩大影响力的共和党人一样,最终万斯改变了基调。他说,特朗普执政期间的表现证明自己是错误的,逐渐成为特朗普最坚定的支持者之一。
“我认为特朗普不会是好总统,”最近万斯告诉福克斯新闻频道(Fox News Channel),“他会是伟大的总统。这也是我拼尽力气助他连任的原因之一。”
2022年竞选参议院空缺席位期间,万斯终于因转变态度获得了梦寐以求的特朗普的支持,在人才济济的共和党初选以及与民主党激烈竞争的选举中获胜。他跟特朗普的儿子小唐纳德关系很不错。
如今万斯是特朗普的忠实拥护者,他质疑针对特朗普的刑事起诉和民事判决合法性,还质疑2020年大选结果。
2月他告诉美国广播公司(ABC News),如果2021年1月6日自己是副总统,他会告诉特朗普质疑拜登获胜的州,提出“需要多批选举人,应该当时就开始争夺美国国会。”
“这是应对选举的合法方式,因为包括我在内很多人都认为2020年大选有很多问题,”他说。
四年前,多个州曾采取紧急措施方便人们在新冠期间安全投票。不过法官、两党选举官员和特朗普自己的司法部长都认为,没有证据显示2020年大选中存在大规模欺诈。
万斯和特朗普之间就像共生关系。
从俄亥俄州到硅谷
万斯的书副题为《危机中的家庭和文化回忆录》,因深入剖析了特朗普在美国中部的吸引力收获赞誉。美国中部因制造业失业以及阿片类药物危机蔓延,导致很多像他一样的家庭陷入贫困,虐待和药物上瘾。
万斯在出生地俄亥俄州米德尔敦和肯塔基州东部山区的艰苦童年故事也吸引了好莱坞的眼球。2020年朗·霍华德将书改编为电影,艾米·亚当斯饰演万斯的母亲,格伦·克洛斯饰演他心爱的“外婆”。
在外婆的鼓励下,万斯在海军陆战队服役,还曾前往伊拉克,后来从俄亥俄州立大学和耶鲁大学法学院毕业。他先是去一家硅谷投资公司工作,回到俄亥俄州创办了一家非营利组织,他说该组织的目标是开发有望“在全美推广”的阿片类药物成瘾治疗方法。
最终,Our Ohio Renewal没实现目标,宣告倒闭。2022年竞选期间,时任美国众议员,其民主党对手蒂姆·瑞安指责称该组织不过是万斯政治野心的掩护。瑞安指出,有报道称该组织在解决成瘾问题上没做什么实际工作,却向万斯一名政治顾问付款,还开展了民意调查。万斯否认了这一说法。
身为参议员,万斯表现出了一定的跨党派合作意愿。他和俄亥俄州资深参议员,民主党人谢罗德·布朗就一系列重要问题展开了合作,包括为英特尔在俄亥俄州中部建设的200亿美元芯片工厂争取资金,以及为针对东巴勒斯坦镇严重脱轨事件推动铁路安全立法等。(财富中文网)
美联社(Associated Press)记者玛丽·克莱尔·贾洛尼克、米歇尔·L·普莱斯和威尔·魏塞特对本报道亦有贡献。
译者:梁宇
本周一,特朗普宣布俄亥俄州参议员JD·万斯为竞选搭档。万斯曾批评特朗普,后来成为他忠实盟友。在人们担心美国领导人年龄过大之际,成为第一位参与主要政党竞选的千禧一代。
“经过长时间深思熟虑,考量了其他许多人的杰出才能之后,我决定,最适合担任美国副总统的是俄亥俄州参议员J.D.万斯,”特朗普在真相社交(Truth Social)平台上的一篇帖子中表示。
现年39岁的万斯因2016年出版的回忆录《乡下人的悲歌》而闻名全美。2022年他当选参议员,成为特朗普“让美国再次伟大”口号最坚定的拥护者之一,特别是在贸易、外交政策和移民方面。
但他在国家政治方面未经考验,而且加入特朗普竞选团队的时机也非同寻常。上周六一次集会上,特朗普遭遇刺杀未遂,震撼了竞选团队,人们开始关注美国粗俗的政治言论,更加重视距离总统之位一步之遥的人。
万斯在X上一篇帖子中暗示拜登应对暴力事件负责,因此广受批评。
“拜登竞选活动中的核心前提是,特朗普是必须不惜一切代价阻止的独裁法西斯,”万斯写道,“这种言论直接导致了对特朗普的刺杀行动。”
执法部门尚未明确枪击事件的动机。尽管如此,选择万斯显然会让特朗普的忠实支持者很振奋。万斯已成为保守派媒体圈的常客,而且经常在国会山跟记者争吵,营造出从2028年下一届总统选举有可能继承特朗普衣钵的领导者形象。
但这一选择也意味着,尽管特朗普努力赢得黑人和拉丁裔选民支持,共和党候选人却是两名白人。
在《乡下人的悲歌》中,万斯曾详细描述阿巴拉契亚社区的生活。社区中很多居民发现民主党越发与日常生活脱节,因而远离民主党。尽管该书相当畅销,有人批评书中描述的乡下生活有时过于简化,而且忽视了现代政治中种族主义的作用。
“大骗子”
从真人秀明星到共和党候选人并最终就任总统,特朗普踏上这一非同寻常的崛起之路过程中,万斯的名气也随之增长。在特朗普政治生涯的早期阶段,万斯痛骂特朗普为“大骗子”、“道德灾难”,还有“美国版希特勒”。
但就像特朗普时代很多争取扩大影响力的共和党人一样,最终万斯改变了基调。他说,特朗普执政期间的表现证明自己是错误的,逐渐成为特朗普最坚定的支持者之一。
“我认为特朗普不会是好总统,”最近万斯告诉福克斯新闻频道(Fox News Channel),“他会是伟大的总统。这也是我拼尽力气助他连任的原因之一。”
2022年竞选参议院空缺席位期间,万斯终于因转变态度获得了梦寐以求的特朗普的支持,在人才济济的共和党初选以及与民主党激烈竞争的选举中获胜。他跟特朗普的儿子小唐纳德关系很不错。
如今万斯是特朗普的忠实拥护者,他质疑针对特朗普的刑事起诉和民事判决合法性,还质疑2020年大选结果。
2月他告诉美国广播公司(ABC News),如果2021年1月6日自己是副总统,他会告诉特朗普质疑拜登获胜的州,提出“需要多批选举人,应该当时就开始争夺美国国会。”
“这是应对选举的合法方式,因为包括我在内很多人都认为2020年大选有很多问题,”他说。
四年前,多个州曾采取紧急措施方便人们在新冠期间安全投票。不过法官、两党选举官员和特朗普自己的司法部长都认为,没有证据显示2020年大选中存在大规模欺诈。
万斯和特朗普之间就像共生关系。
从俄亥俄州到硅谷
万斯的书副题为《危机中的家庭和文化回忆录》,因深入剖析了特朗普在美国中部的吸引力收获赞誉。美国中部因制造业失业以及阿片类药物危机蔓延,导致很多像他一样的家庭陷入贫困,虐待和药物上瘾。
万斯在出生地俄亥俄州米德尔敦和肯塔基州东部山区的艰苦童年故事也吸引了好莱坞的眼球。2020年朗·霍华德将书改编为电影,艾米·亚当斯饰演万斯的母亲,格伦·克洛斯饰演他心爱的“外婆”。
在外婆的鼓励下,万斯在海军陆战队服役,还曾前往伊拉克,后来从俄亥俄州立大学和耶鲁大学法学院毕业。他先是去一家硅谷投资公司工作,回到俄亥俄州创办了一家非营利组织,他说该组织的目标是开发有望“在全美推广”的阿片类药物成瘾治疗方法。
最终,Our Ohio Renewal没实现目标,宣告倒闭。2022年竞选期间,时任美国众议员,其民主党对手蒂姆·瑞安指责称该组织不过是万斯政治野心的掩护。瑞安指出,有报道称该组织在解决成瘾问题上没做什么实际工作,却向万斯一名政治顾问付款,还开展了民意调查。万斯否认了这一说法。
身为参议员,万斯表现出了一定的跨党派合作意愿。他和俄亥俄州资深参议员,民主党人谢罗德·布朗就一系列重要问题展开了合作,包括为英特尔在俄亥俄州中部建设的200亿美元芯片工厂争取资金,以及为针对东巴勒斯坦镇严重脱轨事件推动铁路安全立法等。(财富中文网)
美联社(Associated Press)记者玛丽·克莱尔·贾洛尼克、米歇尔·L·普莱斯和威尔·魏塞特对本报道亦有贡献。
译者:梁宇
Donald Trump named Sen. JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate on Monday, choosing a onetime critic who became a loyal ally and is now the first millennial to join a major-party ticket at a time of deep concern about the advanced age of America’s political leaders.
“After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social network.
The 39-year-old Vance rose to national fame with the 2016 publication of his memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy.” He was elected to the Senate in 2022 and has become one of the staunchest champions of the former president’s “Make America Great Again” agenda, particularly on trade, foreign policy and immigration.
But he is largely untested in national politics and is joining the Trump ticket at an extraordinary moment. An attempted assassination of Trump at a rally Saturday has shaken the campaign, bringing new attention to the nation’s coarse political rhetoric and reinforcing the importance of those who are one heartbeat away from the presidency.
Vance himself faced criticism in the wake of the shooting for a post on X that suggested President Joe Biden was to blame for the violence.
“The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs,” Vance wrote. “That rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination.”
Law enforcement has not yet specified a motivation for the shooting. Still, the pick is sure to energize Trump’s loyal base. Vance has become a fixture on the conservative media circuit and frequently spars with reporters on Capitol Hill, helping establish him as the kind of leader who could carry Trump’s mantle into the future, beginning with the next presidential election in 2028.
But the pick also means that two white men will now lead the Republican ticket at a time when Trump has sought to make inroads with Black and Latino voters.
In “Hillbilly Elegy,” Vance detailed life in Appalachian communities that drifted from a Democratic Party many residents found disconnected from their daily travails. While the book was a bestseller, it was also criticized for sometimes oversimplifying rural life and ignoring the role of racism in modern politics.
‘Total fraud’
Vance’s fame grew in tandem with Trump’s unlikely rise from a reality television star to Republican presidential nominee and eventually president. During the early stages of Trump’s political career, Vance cast him as “a total fraud,” “a moral disaster” and “America’s Hitler.”
But like many Republicans who sought relevance in the Trump era, Vance eventually shifted his tone. He said he was proved wrong by Trump’s performance in office and evolved into one of his most steadfast defenders.
“I didn’t think he was going to be a good president,” Vance recently told Fox News Channel. “He was a great president. And it’s one of the reasons why I’m working so hard to make sure he gets a second term.”
Vance was rewarded for his turnaround during his bid for an open Senate seat in 2022, during which he landed Trump’s coveted endorsement and rode it to victory in a crowded Republican primary and a general election hard fought by Democrats. He is close to Trump’s son Donald Jr.
Vance is now a Trump loyalist who has challenged the legitimacy of criminal prosecutions and civil verdicts against him and questions the results of the 2020 election.
He told ABC News in February that, if he had been vice president on Jan. 6, 2021, he would have told states where Trump disputed Biden wins “that we needed to have multiple slates of electors, and I think the U.S. Congress should have fought over it from there.”
“That is the legitimate way to deal with an election that a lot of folks, including me, think had a lot of problems in 2020,” he said.
Many states adopted emergency measures four years ago to allow people to vote safely during the COVID-19 pandemic. But judges, election officials in both parties and Trump’s own attorney general have concluded there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election.
The relationship between Vance and Trump has been symbiotic.
From Ohio to Silicon Valley
Vance’s book — subtitled “A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” — was embraced for its insights into Trump’s appeal in middle America, where manufacturing job losses and the opioid crisis had driven many families like his into poverty, abuse and addiction.
The tale of Vance’s hardscrabble childhood in Middletown, Ohio, where he was born, and his familial eastern Kentucky hills region also captivated Hollywood. Ron Howard made it into a 2020 movie starring Amy Adams as Vance’s mother and Glenn Close as his beloved “Mamaw.”
With his grandmother’s encouragement, Vance went on to serve in the Marine Corps, including in Iraq, and to graduate from Ohio State University and Yale Law School. From there, he joined a Silicon Valley investment firm before returning to Ohio to launch a nonprofit that he said would aim to develop opioid addiction treatments that might be “scaled nationally.”
Ultimately, Our Ohio Renewal failed at that mission and was shuttered. During the 2022 campaign, then-U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, his Democratic rival, charged that the charity was little more than a front for Vance’s political ambitions. Ryan pointed to reports that the organization made payments to a Vance political adviser and conducted public opinion polling, even as its actual efforts to address addiction largely floundered. Vance denied the characterization.
As a senator, Vance has shown some willingness to work across the aisle. He and Ohio’s senior senator, Democrat Sherrod Brown, have teamed up on a number of issues important to the state, including fighting for funding for a $20 billion chip facility Intel is building in central Ohio and introducing rail safety legislation in response to the fiery derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
Associated Press writers Mary Clare Jalonick, Michelle L. Price and Will Weissert contributed to this report.