{"id":106734,"date":"2024-08-10T21:04:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T21:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/jd-vance-absolutely-sure-trump-thinks-he-could-be-president-if-needed\/"},"modified":"2024-08-10T21:04:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T21:04:51","slug":"jd-vance-absolutely-sure-trump-thinks-he-could-be-president-if-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/jd-vance-absolutely-sure-trump-thinks-he-could-be-president-if-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance &#8216;absolutely&#8217; sure Trump thinks he could be president if needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-10\/Getty_081024_JDVance.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Adam Bettcher\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; Sen. JD Vance affirmed former President Donald Trump&#8217;s assertion that the vice presidential pick doesn\u2019t matter to the vast majority of voters. However, Vance stressed he&#8217;s &#8220;absolutely&#8221; sure Trump is confident he could step up as commander in chief if needed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trump was asked recently very directly, &#8216;Would you be ready to be president on day one&#8217; &#8230; Are you ready?&#8221; &#8220;This Week&#8221; co-anchor Jonathan Karl asked as part of a wide-ranging interview that will air in full Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He made it the main focus of his vetting process, is, &#8216;Do I think this person can be president on day one if, God forbid, something happens?&#8217; Yes,&#8221; Vance said.<\/p>\n<p>The Ohio senator said voters are more focused on the candidates at the top of the ticket instead of the vice presidential pick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey&#8217;re voting for Donald Trump or for Kamala Harris, not for JD or Tim Walz,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I also think that he&#8217;s right that the politics of this really don&#8217;t matter that much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Bettcher\/Getty Images (NEW YORK) &#8212; Sen. JD Vance affirmed former President Donald Trump&#8217;s assertion that the vice presidential pick doesn\u2019t matter to the vast majority of voters. However, Vance stressed he&#8217;s &#8220;absolutely&#8221; sure Trump is confident he could step up as commander in chief if needed. &#8220;Trump was asked<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/jd-vance-absolutely-sure-trump-thinks-he-could-be-president-if-needed\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}