When 2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump chose Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate, MAGA Republicans were hoping that having the “Hillbilly Elegy” author on the ticket would improve Trump’s chances of winning key Rust Belt states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. But when Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz made a late July appearance on MSNBC, he slammed Vance as a faux-populist who doesn’t understand the economic realities of working-class Rust Belt Americans. Walz told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki, “They scream socialism; we just build roads, and we build schools. And we build …