Ann Coulter said she will vote for former President Trump in November, despite thinking he is an “awful, awful person,” because of his pick of Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate.
The conservative media pundit has mostly sworn off Trump and urged on his rivals in the 2024 primary election, but told C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” on Sunday that she will still give him her vote.
“Donald Trump, because if he loses he will be running again in four years, and then he will have lost four successive elections for us,” she said when asked who she is voting for.
“Truthfully, I really like his choice of JD Vance, which I recommended back in May,” she continued. “Can’t trust Trump as far as I can throw him, but I do trust JD Vance to care about the left behind people.”
Coulter once authored a pro-Trump book in 2016, titled “In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!,” but said Sunday that she believes the former president has moved far from what that book praises.
“I wish Republican politicians would read it. I gave a copy to some of my favorite Republicans,” she said. “I do think the 2016 Trump campaign, it was one of the greatest campaigns in world history – in part because it really changed the Republican Party to a party I preferred.”
“So I loved Trump coming out and saying, ‘Oh, I’m rich and going to fix the country,” she continued. “But the main reason, and if you read the book, by the way, I make it very clear that personally, Trump is an awful, awful person. We are making an exception this one time because we need a wall on the border.”
