text:  Democrats were ready with plenty of criticism, especially in the form of Vance's many past critical statements of Trump way back before Vance was a senator. And now I think there are two ways to look at that. One is that Vance has said, yes, some very critical things, for example, comparing Donald Trump to Hitler. But also Vance is a convert and converts can be really powerful messengers. And now that Vance supports Trump, he's a former never Trumper and a relatively young never Trumper. It's possible that