【中美创新时报2024 年 7 月 15 日编译讯】（记者温友平编译）前总统唐纳德·特朗普选择俄亥俄州参议员JD万斯（JD Vance ）作为他 2024 年的竞选搭档，提升了一位坚定的忠诚主义者，他将放大共和党候选人的两极分化 MAGA 民粹主义。《波士顿环球报》记者萨姆·布罗迪（Sam Brodey）对此作了下述报道。
特朗普于周一在其社交媒体平台“Truth Social”上发布帖子宣布了这一消息，当时共和党全国代表大会正在开幕。
“经过长时间的深思熟虑，并考虑到许多其他人的杰出才能，我决定最适合担任美国副总统的人是俄亥俄州参议员 J.D. 万斯，”特朗普写道，并提到万斯的资历和对铁锈地带各州的吸引力。
在选择万斯而不是北达科他州州长道格·伯格姆等更亲建制派的竞争者时，特朗普选择万斯表明，他全力以赴激励他的核心支持者，而不是吸引中间派持怀疑态度的选民。
回忆录《乡下人的悲歌》的作者万斯以特朗普叛教者的身份进入政界——在 2016 年与朋友的一次泄露的谈话中，他曾怀疑特朗普是否会像希特勒一样行事——后来他转而成为特朗普的使徒和支持者的英雄。
2022 年，万斯在特朗普的支持下赢得了有争议的美国参议院选举。此后，万斯经常在前总统的法律诉讼中为特朗普辩护，并与他密切合作，倡导美国优先的孤立主义和在社会问题上的强烈右翼立场。
最近几个月，万斯公开支持特朗普为抗辩 2020 年大选失败而做出的努力，他发送了“替代名单”总统选举人，现在这已成为几个州的刑事指控内容，并在 CNN 上表示，他“极其怀疑”前副总统迈克·彭斯在 2021 年 1 月 6 日的生命处于危险之中。
在周六特朗普遇刺未遂后，万斯也采取了特别激烈的立场，指责左翼的言论（没有任何证据表明枪手的动机），与特朗普自己更为温和的回应形成鲜明对比。
“今天不仅仅是一个孤立事件，”万斯在社交媒体平台 X 上写道。“拜登竞选的核心前提是，唐纳德·特朗普总统是一个独裁法西斯主义者，必须不惜一切代价阻止他。这种言论直接导致了特朗普总统的暗杀企图。”
在幕后，万斯在特朗普的圈子里培养了一批强大的盟友，尤其是与特朗普的长子小唐纳德·特朗普的关系越来越密切，小唐纳德·特朗普也是前总统的一位有影响力的顾问。
万斯长期以来一直被认为是共和党副总统提名的头号竞争者。据报道，伯古姆、佛罗里达州参议员马可·卢比奥和南卡罗来纳州参议员蒂姆·斯科特也参与了角逐，他们都被视为能够吸引中间派选民和特朗普竞选团队针对的人口群体（如黑人和拉丁裔选民）的人物。
万斯现年 39 岁，是自理查德·尼克松以来现代史上最年轻的竞选搭档，尼克松被选为德怀特·艾森豪威尔的竞选搭档时也是 39 岁。他的年轻与特朗普形成鲜明对比，特朗普今年 78 岁，如果他在 11 月赢得连任，将成为有史以来最年长的总统就职者。
题图：参议员 J.D. Vance。ANDREW HARNIK/GETTY
附原英文报道：
Donald Trump chooses Ohio Senator JD Vance as 2024 running mate
By Sam Brodey Globe Staff,Updated July 15, 2024
WASHINGTON — Former president Donald Trump has selected Senator JD Vance of Ohio as his 2024 running mate, elevating a hard-edged loyalist who will amplify the polarizing MAGA populism of the Republican ticket.
Trump announced the news in a post on his social media platform “Truth Social” on Monday, as the Republican National Convention was kicking off.
“After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio,” Trump wrote, citing Vance’s credentials and appeal to Rust Belt states.
In selecting Vance over more establishment-friendly contenders, such as North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, shows Trump is going all-in on motivating his core base of supporters rather than appealing to skeptical voters in the center.
Author of the memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” Vance entered political life as a Trump apostate — who once wondered in a leaked 2016 conversation with a friend if Trump would behave like Hitler — before pivoting to becoming a Trump apostle and a hero of his supporters.
In 2022, Vance won a contested US Senate election powered by Trump’s endorsement. Since then, Vance has frequently defended Trump through the former president’s legal battles and aligned with him closely in advocating for an America First isolationism and stridently right-wing positions on social issues.
In recent months, Vance has publicly endorsed Trump’s effort to contest his 2020 defeat by sending “alternative slates” of presidential electors, now the substance of criminal charges in several states, and said on CNN he is “extremely skeptical” that former vice president Mike Pence’s life was in danger on January 6, 2021.
Vance also took a particularly charged stance after the attempted assassination of Trump on Saturday, blaming the left for their rhetoric (without any evidence of the shooter’s motivations) in contrast with Trump’s own more moderated response.
“Today is not just some isolated incident,” Vance wrote on the social media platform X. “The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination.”
Behind the scenes, Vance has cultivated a formidable list of allies in Trump’s orbit, growing close in particular to his eldest son, Donald Trump, Jr., who is also an influential adviser to the former president.
Vance had long been considered a top contender for the Republican vice presidential nod. Also reported to be in the running were Burgum, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, and South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, all of whom were seen as figures who could appeal to voters in the center and to demographics targeted by the Trump campaign, like Black and Latino voters.
At 39 years old, Vance is the youngest running mate in the modern era since Richard Nixon, who was also 39 when he was selected as Dwight D. Eisenhower’s running mate. His youth is a stark contrast to Trump, who at 78 years old would be the oldest person ever inaugurated as president if he were to win another term in November.
