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- JD Vance joked about Diet Mountain Dew being racist at his 1st solo rally since becoming Trump's VP.
- But the Ohio senator used to take the issue more seriously.
- In "Hillbilly Elegy," he even wrote about being "worried about racial prejudice in my own family."
Perhaps the most notable soundbite to emerge from Sen. JD Vance's first solo rally since becoming former President Donald Trump's running mate was a joke about Diet Mountain Dew.
The Ohio senator made the remarks as he discussed voter ID laws, saying that it was the "weirdest thing to me" to say that those laws are racist.