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JD Vance declared himself a “never Trump guy” in 2016. Now that he’s Donald Trump’s running mate, the Ohio senator’s words have come back to haunt him in the form of a viral hit on social media app TikTok.

The 22-second long audio clip was created by DJ duo Casa Di and Steve Terrell, who sampled Vance’s comments from a 2016 Vance interview with Charlie Rose when he was promoting his memoir Hillbilly Elegy.

In the clip, Vance can be heard saying: “I’m a never Trump guy. I never liked him.”

That sample was added to the Petey Pablo hip-hop beat “Freek-a-Leek” and the resulting song has proved wildly popular on TikTok, where it has soundtracked more than 8,500 videos in the last month, racking up over 40 million views in …

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