 conventional wisdom used to be that a running mate needed to help you win a state but that's really out the window now since this is donald trump's republican party ohio is now a solidly red state but jd vance can bring the mega message to nearby battleground states like michigan wisconsin and pennsylvania i think he'll have an appeal to not just the republican base but other voters who may not know a lot about him he of course wrote the best-selling book hillbilly elegy but he reflects donald trump in a lot of ways he