Speaking Wednesday at the Republican National Convention, Senator J.D.
Vance of Ohio became the latest, and potentially most consequential, of Donald J. Trump’s apprentices to accept the position in prime time.
For years as the host of “The Apprentice,” Mr. Trump picked out protégés from boardrooms full of young supplicants.
Offend him and you might be dismissed; appear too thirsty and you could get the boot as well.
Mr. Vance spent much of his two years in the Senate auditioning for the promotion to vice-presidential nominee, cultivating a relationship, apologizing for his Never-Trumper apostasy and recently blaming Biden campaign rhetoric for leading “directly” to the assassination attempt against Mr. Trump.
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