When Donald Trump announced that his running mate would be JD Vance, media outlets were quick to point out that the Ohio Senator had been fervently opposed to the former president, going as far as to label the tycoon "a moral disaster" and comparing him to Adolf Hitler.
"I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler," Vance wrote in a message to a friend in 2016. "How's that for discouraging?"
