CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Former President Donald Trump has chosen Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate for the 2024 Presidential Election, and West Virginia State Treasurer Riley Moore is emphatically supporting him.
“J.D. Vance is somebody that can really speak to the working-class people of this country, particularly when we’re trying to pick up states like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania,” Moore said. I think his story, his life story, resonates with a lot of working-class people of the United States.”
Vance, the 39-year-old from Middletown, Ohio, has a different path to a political career as most, as he began his post high school career in the United States Marine Corp, where he served from 2003-2007. Vance later went on to school at Ohio State University and Yale University.
Moore says it’s the life experience that makes Vance such a good candidate for vice president.
“It’s a very compelling story,” Moore said. “Some might say, ‘Well, he doesn’t have enough experience in government or something like that.’ His life experience, I think, has prepared himself for this position.”
In the past, Vance was on record critizing Trump, but Moore says Vance has come along.
“President Trump was a real shock to the system, which was great,” Moore said. ‘It took a little while for some people to kind of come to neutral and realize this is the direction that this country needs to head, and certainly J.D. (Vance) knows that.”
Moore also says he’s confident Trump will win the upcoming Presidential Election and thinks Vance will carry on the right movement.
“I think President Trump is clearly going to win this election, that’s my view on this,” Moore said. “We need to have somebody who is in a position to carry on this ‘America First’ movement, and I don’t think there’s a better person than Senator J.D. Vance.”
Vance officially accepted the Vice President nomination in his speech at the Republican National Convention Wednesday night.