US Vice President JD Vance
On July 15, 2024, Trump formally announced Vance as his running mate, or vice presidential candidate. In the November 2024 election, the Trump-Vance Republican ticket defeated the Democratic ticket of Kamala Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz.
US Vice President JD Vance said in a podcast released Tuesday (local time) that he feared a “real civil strife” had a 2024 attempt on Donald Trump ’s life been successful. “We would have had real civil strife in a way that I don’t know that the country could have ever come back from. There would have just been an illegitimacy to our entire political system,” the Associated Press quoted the vice president as saying.
Vance defended the president, arguing that Trump did not intend to “mock or mimic God” and that “that’s just not who he is. “He’s a bit of a ballbuster, for those of us who work with him, and he just likes to have a good time,” Vance remarked. “And I think that if people appreciated that, they would recognize, he’s not trying to offend people, he’s trying to keep things light. ”
“I would have assumed very dark forces had taken out Donald Trump, right as he was about to come back into the White House. Many Trump supporters would have assumed a conspiracy had robbed them of their chosen president… I would have also had those thoughts ‘in the back of my mind,’” he added. He added that Trump often tries to keep things light and frequently jokes.