(PartiallyPolitics.com) – Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee (R) congratulated former President Donald Trump over his running mate choice, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) arguing that the fact that he was inexperienced was “good.”
On Saturday, during a NewsNation interview, Huckabee told interviewer Hena Doba that there were many people who had argued that Vance, a first-time Senator, had not been in office for a long time. As he argued he believes that is actually a good thing, and that the longer a person has continued to be an elected official, especially in Washington, the more they become infected with the “horrible Potomac River disease.”
Vance received Trump’s endorsement during his first election in the Senate during the 2022 midterm elections, which means that at the time of the presidential election, he will have only been in office for two years, significantly less than a full term in Congress.
Many have also pointed out that Vance had not always been a Trump supporter. In fact, in 2016, he had written an op-ed in The Atlantic where he had opposed Trump as the party nominee and had argued that his presidential race was a bid “cultural heroin.” However, since then Vance has altered his position and has now become one of Trump’s most vocal supporters.
Following months of questions regarding who Trump would house, Trump announced early In the Republican Convention who the second person on his ticket would be.
Vance’s political career so far has been focused on his upbringing in a low-income community in Ohio, which he has detailed in his memoir “Hillbilly Elegy.”
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