JD Vance Gives Simple Example Of Trump’s ‘Political Genius’

Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) said this week that former President Donald Trump’s desire to know what everyone thinks about a topic shows a type of “political genius” because he seeks to learn new perspectives.

The Republican vice presidential candidate made the remarks during an interview on “The Joe Rogan Experience” that aired Thursday afternoon while talking about the selection process for being chosen to be Trump’s running mate.

“[Trump] told me that he was talking to the gardener at Mar-a-Lago about who the vice presidential nominee should be,” Vance said. “And that’s one of, I think, Trump’s sort of political genius is he talks to everybody about everything.”

“And I was like, well, what did the gardener at Mar-a-Lago have to say about this conversation? Because this really directly impacts my life,” he continued. “And, you know, he basically said, well, I think I’m probably going to pick you.”

Vance said that he started to realize that Trump “was thinking pretty seriously about making me his VP nominee probably earlier this year because he would ask me a lot about who I thought the VP nominee should be.”

“I’d give him names of people that I thought would be pretty good at it. And a lot of the names that I gave him, he would criticize,” he continued. “And I almost felt like he was inviting me to throw myself out there.”

He said that the first time Trump discussed the idea of making him vice president was on the morning of July 13, the day that Trump was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania.

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Vance said that Trump almost made the decision to announce Vance as his pick at the rally, but decided against it, opting to wait a couple of days later before breaking the news.

The 40-year-old said that when he saw that Trump was shot, he thought that Trump had been killed.

He said that he was with his kids when he learned about the assassination attempt and that he grabbed his kids and raced home as soon as it happened.

Once home, he said that he loaded up his guns and guarded the house.

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JD Vance said that one thing about Trump that makes him a “political genius” is that he wants to know what everyone is thinking

He says that Trump was evening asking his own gardener at Mar-a-Lago who he should pick for VP. pic.twitter.com/aR9ryQvYdd

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