Headline Roundup • July 16th, 2024
What Does JD Vance Add as Trump's Running Mate?
2024 Presidential Election,JD Vance,Donald Trump,Republican Party,Common Ground,Polarization,Politics,Media Industry
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Opinion writers from across the political spectrum discussed J.D. Vance, former President Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick, in two major newspapers: New York Times Opinion (Left bias) and The Washington Post (Lean Left bias).
New York Times: Times columnists Ross Douthat (Lean Right bias), David French (Lean Right bias), Michelle Goldberg (Left bias), and Bret Stephens (Lean Right bias) discussed “why Mr. Trump picked him, how Mr. Vance could help the ticket, what’s surprising and unusual about the vice-presidential nominee, and what if anything worries our columnists about Mr. Vance.”
Washington Post: Post columnists Megan McArdle (Center bias), Jason Willick (Center bias), and Ramesh Ponnuru (Right bias) discussed how Trump’s pick “is significant not just because he will be his ticket-balancing, ribbon-cutting sidekick, but also because the former president has sharply changed the direction of the party — and is now trying to consolidate it into its enduring future form.”
Tangle: Outside the mainstream, Tangle (Center bias) explored reactions to Vance’s pick from across the political spectrum. Giving his take on Vance, Editor Isaac Saul (Center bias) wrote, “But as much as I want to give people room to grow and change their minds, I also can't shake the feeling that I just don't know what he truly believes anymore. His time in public office has been too short — and his flip-flops too fast — for me to get an accurate read on who he is or trust what he says. That makes me deeply uneasy at a time when sussing out the future direction of our country is so critically important.”
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Stefan Jeremiah/AP, File
Donald Trump’s decision to make Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) his running mate is significant not just because he will be his ticket-balancing, ribbon-cutting sidekick, but also because the former president has sharply changed the direction of the party — and is now trying to consolidate it into its enduring future form. Given that Trump is 78, there is also an unusually high risk that Vance will actually end up sitting in the Oval Office sometime in the next four years.
So I asked my colleagues Ramesh Ponnuru and Jason Willick: What...
Gage Skidmore
J.D. Vance. On Monday, former President Donald Trump announced freshman Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his running mate for the 2024 election. Before his election to the Senate, Vance was best known as the author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” which describes his experience growing up in a poverty-stricken home in Ohio. Vance, 39, is the first millennial nominated to either party's major ticket. If elected, he would become one of the youngest and least experienced vice presidents in U.S. history, with less than two years spent as an elected official.
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Damon Winter/The New York Times
Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, hosted an online conversation with the Times Opinion columnists Ross Douthat, David French, Michelle Goldberg and Bret Stephens to discuss Donald Trump’s choice of J.D. Vance as his running mate — why Mr. Trump picked him, how Mr. Vance could help the ticket, what’s surprising and unusual about the vice-presidential nominee, and what if anything worries our columnists about Mr. Vance.
Patrick Healy: The answer to one of the biggest questions of the presidential election has now been revealed: Donald Trump has chosen J.D....
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