text:  the former president would want his vice president to be. You know, J.D. Vance became well-known because he wrote a book, Hillbilly Elegy, about growing up in eastern Ohio, which is basically, you know, ground zero for Trump's unique appeal to white working class voters that won him the election in 2016, put him over the edge in the electoral college, and has in many ways reshaped American politics. Now, of course, J.D. Vance was a never-Trumper back in 2016.