JD Vance, Trump's Former National Security Advisor, Has Endorsed Him For The Ohio Senate Seat.
Key Sentence:
- Vance and his rivals will be positioned as Trump-friendly candidates with the support of the former president's allies.
Robert O'Brien, former US President Donald Trump's last national security adviser, backed JD Vance in Ohio's crowded Republican Senate primaries.
"JD is a strong leader who will champion President Trump's foreign policy for America," O'Brien said in a statement from the Vance campaign. "He understood that our national security should be about American interests, not nation-building or 'awakening.' JD will always put America and its people first. "
Vance, a Marine veteran, and venture capitalist, best known for his best-selling Hillbilly Elegy is one of five Republican nominees in the Trump-centric contest that Ohio won sovereignly in 2016 and 2020. Tim Ryan and progressive activist Morgan Harper are elected. Senator Rob Portman, a Republican in office since 2011, does not want to be re-elected next year.
Trump did not accept the nominee. With the support from his allies and other national figures on the right.
Vance and his rivals have sought to position themselves as Trump-friendly candidates.
Kelian Conway, Trump's senior White House adviser, worked with businessman Bernie Moreno, who was also backed by Richard Grenell, Trump's ambassador to Germany. South Dakota Governor Christie Noem, a Trump favorite, backed Jane Timken, the former Republican leader in Ohio. Also in the group nominations are businessman Mike Gibbons, approved by Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, and former State Treasurer Josh Mandel, approved by Senator Mike Lee of Utah.
O'Brien is Trump's fourth and final national security adviser. News reported last year that it is fighting for a more prominent role in Trump's second term.
"Robert is one of the big supporters of President Trump's political program for America, and his approval is a strong signal about who is against our adversary," Vance said Tuesday of the agreement.
Once a Trump critic, Vance is now presenting himself as a populist in the form of Trump. Vance posted a video on Twitter Monday criticizing Senator Ben Sasse, R-Neb., for his position on the relocation of Afghan refugees helping the United States in the war against Afghanistan.
"Yeah, let's help the Afghans who help us," Vance says in the video, "but let's make sure we get it right, so we don't make a group of people think they need to blow up the mall because he's looking for someone the wrong way on his wife. "