Now, Vance will rely on the president's endorsement to buoy him in a crowded field of candidates. In a since-deleted tweet from March 2017, first reported by CNN, Vance wrote: "In 4 years, I hope people remember that it was those of us who empathized with Trump's voters who fought him most aggressively." The Republican has lived much of his life in San Francisco - in 2017, he announced in a New York Times op-ed that he would return to Ohio - and in advance of the 2016 election called Trump "noxious" and said he was considering voting for a third-party candidate. Vance has made a particularly striking evolution on Trump. The state's Republican primary has been a race to the party's right, as Vance and a trio of his opponents - businessman Mike Gibbons, former state Treasurer Josh Mandel and former state GOP Chair Jane Timken - worked to mirror Trump's style and elevated his pet issues of alleged election fraud and illegal immigration. The endorsement comes ahead of a Trump rally in Ohio next weekend. The GOP contest has several candidates who have touted their allegiances to Trump, but the former president said in a statement that, "In the Great State of Ohio, the candidate most qualified and ready to win in November is J.D. Vance, a venture capitalist-turned-Midwest memoirist, whose best-selling Hillbilly Elegy launched his career as a conservative media commentator. Former President Donald Trump has waded into the crowded and contentious Republican Senate primary in Ohio to offer an endorsement with just over two weeks until the election.
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