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Former President Donald J. Trump Monday chose Ohio U.S. Senator JD Vance, 39, to be his running mate.
Vance was born and raised in Middletown, Ohio. He is a Marine veteran who served in Iraq. He earned degrees from Ohio State University and Yale Law School, and worked as a Silicon Valley venture capitalist. He is a father of three and married to an Indian American lawyer.
Vance wrote his bestseller memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy," in 2016 at the age of 31. The book earned Vance a reputation of vulnerability offering up a raw personal story, which led to an introduction to the Trump family. Donald Trump Jr. loved Vance’s book and they developed a very close friendship.
After Donald Trump won the 2016 election, Vance set up an anti-opioid charity in Ohio, took to the lecture series, and spoke at Republican Lincoln Day dinners, where he shared his personal story and the ramifications of having a mother addicted to drugs.
When Ohio U.S. Senator Rob Portman announced his retirement, Vance launched his political career in 2021 in Ohio, and won the senate seat in 2022.
Although Vance was initially a “never Trump” Republican in 2016, he developed a friendship with the former president later in 2021. Vance had called Trump “dangerous” and “unfit.” Vance’s wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance, had called Trump’s rhetoric “racist,” and referred to Trump as “America’s Hitler.”
But by the time Vance met Trump in 2021, Vances had reversed his opinion.
Once in the senate, Vance became a fierce Trump ally.
He is a conservative voice against interventionist foreign policy, in favor of free market economics and “American culture writ large,” and is a critic of the broken immigration policy.
Vance has said that he would not have certified the 2020 results immediately if he had been vice president and said Trump had “a very legitimate grievance.”
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