College of Charleston Professor Explores Trump's Pick for VP
Political science professor Karyn Amira has published an article for The Conversation concerning Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and vice presidential candidate JD Vance at a campaign rally in Michigan on July 20, 2024. AP Photo/Evan Vucci
College of Charleston political science professor Karyn Amira has published an article for The Conversation concerning Donald Trump choosing JD Vance as his running mate in the 2024 presidential race.
Amira says that, since 2015, Trump has tightened his grip on the Republican Party, moving it further away from its professed conservative ideology. She says the choice of Vance as Trump’s running mate – and the competition that preceded it – are the latest steps in this process.
“Vance is more than a protégé,” writes Amira. “He embodies Trump’s influence on the Republican Party’s evolving relationship with government power and insists his political conversion is genuine.”
She says if there was any speculation that Republicans would revert to some form of traditional conservatism after Trump leaves politics, the prospect of a JD Vance presidency makes clear that the answer is no.
Read the complete article on The Conversation.
