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J.D. Vance to join Trump for Ohio fundraiser amid VP speculation | |
By Alayna Treene and Rashard Rose, CNN | |
Updated: | |
11:57 PM EDT, Wed May 1, 2024 | |
Source: CNN | |
Former President Donald Trump is hosting a fundraiser alongside Ohio | |
Sen. J.D. Vance, according to an invitation obtained by CNN. | |
The May 15 Cincinnati event is advertised as a lunch discussion with | |
Vance listed as a “special guest.” | |
Host committee members are requested to donate or raise $250,000. | |
Attendees are asked for $100,000 per couple or $50,000 per person, | |
according to the invite. was first to report on the fundraiser. | |
Vance, who is a contender to be Trump’s 2024 running mate, previously | |
earned the former president’s endorsement during his Senate race and | |
is one of Trump’s biggest supporters on Capitol Hill. | |
In recent conversations about his vice-presidential pick, Trump has | |
appeared fixated on Vance, . | |
The Republican senator told “Fox News Sunday” in a recent interview | |
that he has “never spoken” to Trump about serving as his running | |
mate. “I talk to President Trump a lot. We’re very close. I’ve | |
never spoken to him about being vice president. So, I assume that a lot | |
of this is media speculation,” he said. But Vance said if Trump asked | |
him to run, he would “think seriously about it.” | |
Vance repeatedly defended Trump on a range of topics in an interview | |
with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Wednesday. | |
Asked if he has any pause to be Trump’s running mate given the | |
presumptive Republican nominee’s treatment of former Vice President | |
Mike Pence, Vance said he was “extremely skeptical” that Pence’s | |
. | |
“I’m extremely skeptical that Mike Pence’s life was ever in | |
danger. I think in politics, people like to really exaggerate things | |
from time to time,” he said on “The Source.” | |
“The idea that Donald Trump endangered anyone’s lives when he told | |
them to protest peacefully, it’s just absurd,” Vance told Collins. | |
The Ohio Republican also sided with Trump’s that are currently before | |
the Supreme Court. | |
Asked about the former president’s recent downplaying of the compared | |
to ongoing college protests against Israel’s actions in Gaza, Vance | |
said, “He condemned the protest in Charlottesville to the extent that | |
it got violent. He also noted, honestly, that there were peaceful | |
protesters in Charlottesville too. He’s also condemned the protests | |
that have broken out across our college campuses.” | |
Vance also told Collins that he hasn’t spoken to Trump about becoming | |
vice president. | |
Trump has indicated privately that he will announce a vice presidential | |
pick in the early summer before the Republican convention, three | |
sources . | |
This story has been updated with additional information. | |
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