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He lived in San Francisco after attending college at Yale - two marks of what the MAGA movement traditionally consider as being from the "elite" and "woke". He has NO legislative or executive experience other than the past 17 months in Senate where GOP colleagues have described him as "green" and "trying his best". Democratic senators describe their interactions with Vance as surprisingly cooperative and productive, focusing on specific issues where they can find common ground leading to accusations of being a RINO.

In 2016, he viewed Trump as unfit for office, calling him "reprehensible" and even comparing him to Hitler.
Vance expressed concerns about Trump's impact on marginalized groups, stating that Trump made immigrants & Muslims fearful.
He found Trump's behavior embarrassing, particularly after the Access Hollywood tape scandal, and urged fellow Christians not to apologize for Trump's actions.
Vance considered Trump's rhetoric and policies to be at odds with his own values and beliefs at the time.
He went so far as to call himself a "Never Trump Guy" and admitted he "can't stomach Trump" in interviews. Vance even refused to vote for Trump in 2016, instead supporting independent candidate Evan McMullin.

During Trump's 2016 campaign, Vance called Trump an "idiot" and "America's Hitler" and admitted to not voting for him

Quotes from Hillbilly Elegy:
"What separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations that they had for their own lives. Yet the message of the right is increasingly: It's not your fault that you're a loser; it's the government's fault."

"Whenever people ask me what I'd most like to change about the white working class, I say, 'The feeling that our choices don't matter.'"

"We don't study as children, and we don't make our kids study when we're parents. Our kids perform poorly in school. We might get angry with them, but we never give them the tools—like peace and quiet at home—to succeed."