Trump selects Sen. JD Vance as vice presidential running mate

Jul 17, 2024, 10:56 am

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Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance and his wife Usha Chilukuri Vance arrive on the floor during the first day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 15, 2024./ Source: AP Yonhap News

AsiaToday Washington correspondent Ha Man-joo

The US Republican Party has formally nominated former President Donald Trump as its presidential nominee on Monday.

Earlier in the day, Trump announced in a social media post that he had chosen a conservative Ohio senator JD Vance as his running mate.

As a result, the upcoming US presidential election on November 5 will be a showdown between Democratic President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, and Republican former President Donald Trump and vice presidential candidate JD Vance. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is virtually unlikely to be elected, and attention is being paid to which side of the vote he would further occupy.

The Republican Party crowned Trump as the GOP nominee at the four-day Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, the largest city in the battleground state of Wisconsin, where 2400 delegates gathered. The vote was conducted with a representative from each state to announce who the delegates assigned to the state would vote for, and Trump won a majority of the votes in Florida, where his second son, Eric, was the state’s representative.

As a result, Trump will be running for the presidential election for the third time after 2016 and 2020.

He plans to deliver a speech accepting the nomination on Thursday, the last day of the national convention, and announce his vision for the next government.

Earlier, Trump said on his social media post that he deicded to pick JD Vance as his running mate, and the Republic Party officially nominated him as the vice-presidential candidate in a verbal vote at the convention.

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, declared that Trump and Vance were selected as presidential and vice presidential candidates, respectively.

Trump listed the senator’s career in the Marine Corps, graduating from Ohio State University and Yale Law School, and touted his “very successful business career in technology and finance.” Trump mentioned Vance’s 2016 memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” – a major best seller and movie that put him into the national limelight.

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