Trump Elects Senator Vance as Vice Presidential Candidate... Memoirs Depicting White Workers Are Bestsellers

[Milwaukee (Wisconsin, USA) = Fuchigami Takayu] Former President Donald Trump (78), who is certain to win the Republican nomination in the US presidential election, announced on the 15th that he chose Senator J.D. Vance (39) as a vice presidential candidate. Both Trump and Vance are party congress members that opened on the 15th, and they are officially nominated as regular and vice presidential candidates.

Mr. Trump posted on his own SNS that “after repeated deliberation, I decided that he was the most suitable person.”

　In his memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” published in 2016, Mr. Vance, from Ohio, depicted a group of white workers suffering from poverty in the same state, which is one of the “Rust Belts” where the manufacturing industry declined. It became a best seller in the presidential election of the same year because it was possible to understand the phenomenon that white workers enthusiastically supported Mr. Trump.

　Mr. Vance used to criticize Mr. Trump, but he turned to support him, received Mr. Trump's recommendation, fought for the Senate election in November 21, and won the election for the first time.