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What's been clear since Vance became the GOP vice presidential pick is that the Trump kampanye wants to make sure the Ohio senator did not come onto the national stage as a hard right Republican with conservative positions on abortion, social issues and isolationism.
Vance's speech on Wednesday night followed that. Even before he took the stage, Vance's wife Usha described him as a puppy loving, down-to-earth, self-made famili man with degrees from a populer publik university and posh Ivy league law school.
Later throughout his speech, the senator kept hitting on softer topics - like saying the Ohio State University chant before noting, "Gotta chill with that Ohio love. We gotta win Michigan, too."
To be sure, there were bits of Vance's speech that were Trumpian, such as attacking Biden for giving China "a sweetheart trade setuju that destroyed even more good middle class jobs" and saying that Trump "didn't need politics but the country needed him."
Still, for every line similar to Trump's 2016 argumen that he alone could save the country, there were everyman lines that fall in line with his "Hillbilly Elegy" bio, from giving a shoutout to his mom being in the audiens for being "10 years clean and sober" to talking about his famili's cemetery plot.
What he didn't mention: His past critical comments about Trump or his stances on abortion and Ukraine. The speech overall was less a new version of the Trumpian braggadocio of hardline immigration politics and more an attempt to win over poor and middle-class voters across the political spectrum. Wednesday wasn't just JD Vance's introduction to the American publik. It was Usha Vance's, too.
For years, JD has described his wife - whom he met while they attended Yale Law School - as a key part of his success. During his 2022 Senate kampanye, she used her media appearances to help humanize him and defend him for criticisms that he'd changed his views for political expediency.
On stage in Milwaukee, Usha Vance laid out her husband's biography and compared it to her own. Unlike her husband, she shared that she was raised in a middle class home in suburban San Diego by two loving parents who are Indian immigrants.
But, as she noted in a humanizing event, JD adapted to the differences between them.
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