JD Vance made history as the first Republican Vice President to appear on ABC's 'The View', a show hosted by seven women known for their criticism of the Donald Trump administration. Despite Donald Trump's lawsuit against ABC, Vance agreed to the interview.
"It may be the optimist in me, but I just fundamentally think that most people — not everybody, but most people — even if I disagree with them, you ought to try to have a conversation with them," Vance told Fox News about his decision to sit down with the panel, including Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro. The discussion centered on his new book, 'Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith'.
"My job as vice president of the United States is not just to talk to the people who voted for me, it's to talk to the people who didn't vote for me too," said Vance. "We're going to go and try to have a good conversation. I hope they meet me halfway. I'm a little skeptical, but we'll see."
As he entered the studio on Tuesday, his height became the first topic of conversation. Joy Behar expressed surprise at how tall Vance was. Smiling, Vance remarked that people mostly see his giant head on television, not his full height. JD Vance stands approximately 6 feet 2 inches tall.
During the show, Vance was asked how he transformed from a Trump critic to his running mate and then Vice President. He admitted he was wrong about Donald Trump. "When you make predictions and those predictions turn out to be false, you got to ask yourself, well, what made me wrong about that? What did I not understand or not appreciate? For example, I said that Donald Trump's economic policies would not lead to wage growth. They did in the first term. That was actually a major thing! I said that we couldn't bring back any of those factory jobs because I kind of had given into this idea that those jobs were disappearing, but actually Donald Trump, you saw a manufacturing boom during that administration! So there's a certain point where you say, you know, I made predictions about this. I ended up being wrong. And in politics and anything, I think it's important to just say, you know what, I got some things wrong and I was wrong about him," Vance said.
