Donald Trump has chosen this Monday JD Vancea Republican senator from Ohio, as his running mate for the US electionchoosing a politician who has criticized him on numerous occasions, but who has become one of the Republican’s right-hand men.

The news was posted on Trump’s Truth Social social media website at the start of the four-day Republican National Convention in Milwaukee to nominate the party’s presidential ticket. The selection of James David Vance, author of the best-selling book “Hillbilly Elegy,” could increase the chances that Trump supporters will turn out for the November 5 electionas the Ohio native is very popular among the Republican candidate’s base.

The selection of James David Vance, author of the best-selling “Hillbilly Elegy”, could increase the chances of Trump supporters turn out in the Nov. 5 election, as the Ohio native is very popular among the Republican candidate’s base, though he won’t attract new voters and may even alienate some moderates. Some Trump supporters had pushed him to choose a woman or a person of color as his No. 2 to broaden a coalition that leans toward white men.

Vance has also repeatedly delighted Trump supporters with his confrontational social media presence, a relative rarity in the Senate, where many lawmakers are still trying to maintain a sense of decorum and civility. At 39, Vance will represent a younger generation in an election in which Trump is participating and President Joe Biden, 81, providing a counterweight to the Democratic ticket that also includes Vice President Kamala Harris, 59.

Vance’s selection leaves other potential contenders, such as US senators, in the dust Marco Rubio and Tim Scott and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum. Vance’s rapid rise has been unusual in American politics. After a troubled and impoverished childhood in southern Ohio, he served in the Marine Corps, won a scholarship to Yale Law School and later worked as a venture capitalist in San Francisco.

He rose to fame after 2016 when he wrote “Hillbilly Elegy”in which he explored the socioeconomic problems facing his hometown and the cycle of poverty that had trapped Americans in the Appalachian Mountains, where his mother and family had their origins. The book criticized what Vance saw as a self-destructive culture in rural America and sought to explain Trump’s popularity among impoverished white Americans.

Vance himself harshly criticized Trump before and after his 2016 election victory over Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, calling him an “idiot” and “America’s Hitler,” among other epithets. But, as Vance prepared to run for the U.S. Senate in Ohio in 2022, He became one of the most consistent defenders of the former presidentsupporting Trump even as some Senate colleagues refused to do so.