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    JD Vance

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    James David Vance born James Donald Bowman August 2 1984 is an American politician author attorney and Marine Corps vete

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    James David Vance (born James Donald Bowman; August 2, 1984) is an American politician, author, attorney, and Marine Corps veteran serving as the 50th vice president of the United States, under President Donald Trump. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Ohio in the U.S. Senate from 2023 to 2025.

    JD Vance
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    Inaugural portrait, 2025
    50th Vice President of the United States
    Incumbent
    Assumed office
    January 20, 2025
    PresidentDonald Trump
    Preceded byKamala Harris
    United States Senator
    from Ohio
    In office
    January 3, 2023 – January 10, 2025
    Preceded byRob Portman
    Succeeded byJon Husted
    Personal details
    Born
    James Donald Bowman

    (1984-08-02) August 2, 1984 (age 40)
    Middletown, Ohio, U.S.
    Political partyRepublican
    Spouse
    Usha Chilukuri
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    (m. 2014)​
    Children3
    ResidenceNumber One Observatory Circle
    Education
    • Ohio State University (BA)
    • Yale University (JD)
    Signatureimage
    Military service
    Branch/serviceUnited States Marine Corps
    Years of service2003–2007
    RankCorporal
    Unit2nd Marine Aircraft Wing
    Battles/warsIraq War
    Awards
    • Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal
    • Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal
    Writing career
    GenreMemoir
    Notable worksHillbilly Elegy
    Vance's voice
    Vance questions witnesses on the effectiveness of Russian sanctions.
    Recorded February 28, 2023

    Vance was born in Middletown, Ohio. After high school, Vance joined the Marine Corps, where he served as a military journalist from 2003 to 2007, and was deployed to the Iraq War for six months in 2005. He graduated from Ohio State University with a bachelor's degree in 2009 and Yale Law School with a law degree in 2013. He practiced briefly as a corporate lawyer before embarking on a career in the tech industry as a venture capitalist. His memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, was published in 2016 and adapted into a film in 2020.

    After initially opposing Donald Trump's candidacy in the 2016 election, Vance became a strong Trump supporter during Trump's first presidency. He won the 2022 United States Senate election in Ohio, beating Democratic nominee Tim Ryan. Vance served as Ohio's senator from January 2023 to January 2025. In July 2024, Trump selected Vance as his running mate before the Republican National Convention. Trump and Vance won the 2024 United States presidential election, defeating Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Vance is the third-youngest vice president in U.S. history and the first millennial to hold the office.

    Vance has been characterized as a national conservative and right-wing populist, and he describes himself as a member of the postliberal right. His political positions include opposition to abortion, same-sex marriage and gun control. Vance is an outspoken critic of childlessness and has acknowledged the influence of Catholic theology on his sociopolitical positions.

    Early life, military service, and education

    Vance was born James Donald Bowman on August 2, 1984, in Middletown, Ohio, to Beverly Carol (née Vance) and Donald Ray Bowman. He is of Scots-Irish descent and Appalachian American ancestry, spending time in his youth living with family in Jackson, Kentucky. His parents divorced when he was a toddler. After Bowman was adopted by his mother's third husband, Bob Hamel, his mother changed his name to James David Hamel to remove his father's first name and surname and to preserve an uncle's first name, David. Vance therefore kept his nickname, JD.

    Vance has written that his childhood was marked by poverty and abuse, and that his mother struggled with drug addiction. He and his sister, Lindsey, were raised primarily by their maternal grandparents, James and Bonnie Vance (née Blanton), whom they called "Papaw" and "Mamaw".

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    Vance (then Hamel) in the U.S. Marine Corps, 2003

    After graduating from Middletown High School in 2003, Vance enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, serving as a military journalist with the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing. During his four years of service, he was deployed to the Iraq War in 2005 for six months in a non-combat role, writing articles and taking photographs. He attained the rank of corporal, and his decorations included the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal and the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal.

    In 2007, Vance left the military and used the G.I. Bill to study political science and philosophy at Ohio State University. He graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude. Vance then attended Yale Law School, where he was a member of The Yale Law Journal. During his first year, Professor Amy Chua persuaded Vance to begin writing his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. Vance also initiated a rapport with Peter Thiel after attending his 2011 talk at Yale. In 2010–2011, Vance wrote for David Frum's "FrumForum" website under the name J. D. Hamel. Although Hillbilly Elegy states that he adopted his grandparents' surname of Vance upon his marriage in 2014, the name change actually occurred in 2013, as Vance was about to graduate from Yale.

    Early career

    After graduating from law school, Vance worked for Republican senator John Cornyn. He spent a year as a law clerk for Judge David Bunning of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, then worked at the law firm Sidley Austin, beginning a brief career as a corporate lawyer. Having practiced law for slightly under two years, Vance moved to San Francisco to work in the technology industry as a venture capitalist. Between 2016 and 2017, he served as a principal at Peter Thiel's firm, Mithril Capital.

    In June 2016, Harper published Vance's book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. The memoir recounts the Appalachian culture and socioeconomic problems of Vance's small-town upbringing.Hillbilly Elegy was on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2016 and 2017. The Times listed it among "6 Books to Help Understand Trump's Win", and Vance was profiled in The Washington Post, which called him "the voice of the Rust Belt". In The New Republic, Sarah Jones criticized Vance as "liberal media's favorite white trash–splainer" and a "false prophet of blue America", calling the book "little more than a list of myths about welfare queens".Hillbilly Elegy's success helped propel Vance into contact with social elites, and he began writing a column for The New York Times. Vance later said that his interactions with social elites from this time, particularly their perceived disdain for "the people he grew up with", helped shape his later views.

    In 2017, Vance joined Revolution LLC, an investment firm founded by Steve Case. Vance was tasked with expanding the "Rise of the Rest" initiative, which focuses on growing investments in underserved regions outside Silicon Valley and New York City.

    Vance was a CNN contributor in 2017 and 2018. In April 2017, Ron Howard signed on to direct the film version of Hillbilly Elegy, which was released in select theaters on November 11, 2020. It was released on Netflix for streaming.

    In 2019, Vance served on the board of advisors of the With Honor Fund, a Super PAC that helps veterans run for office. From 2020 to 2023, he served on the board of advisors of American Moment, a networking and training organization for young conservatives that is affiliated with Project 2025.

    In 2019, Vance and Chris Buskirk co-founded the conservative political advocacy group Rockbridge Network. That year, he also co-founded venture capital firm Narya Capital in Cincinnati with financial backing from Thiel, Eric Schmidt, and Marc Andreessen. During 2020, he raised $93 million for the firm. With Peter Thiel and former Trump adviser Darren Blanton, Vance invested in Rumble, a Canadian online video platform popular with the political right.

    Our Ohio Renewal

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    Vance speaks to the City Club of Cleveland, May 2017

    In December 2016, Vance said he planned to move to Ohio and would consider starting a nonprofit or running for office. In Ohio, he started Our Ohio Renewal, a 501(c)(4) advocacy organization focused on education, addiction, and other "social ills" he had mentioned in his memoir. According to a 2017 archived capture of the nonprofit's website, the members of the advisory board were Keith Humphreys, Jamil Jivani, Yuval Levin, and Sally Satel. According to a 2020 capture of the website, those four remained in those positions throughout the organization's existence. Our Ohio Renewal closed by 2021 with sparse achievements. According to Jivani, the organization's director of law and policy, its work was derailed by Jivani's cancer diagnosis. It raised around $221,000 in 2017 (including $80,000 from Vance himself) and spent the majority of its revenue on overhead costs and travel. In subsequent years, it raised less than $50,000.

    During Vance's 2022 campaign for U.S. Senate, Tim Ryan, the Democratic nominee, said the charity was a front for Vance's political ambitions. Ryan pointed to reports that the organization paid a Vance political adviser and conducted public opinion polling, while its efforts to address addiction failed. Vance denied the characterization. Our Ohio Renewal's tax filings showed that in its first year, it spent more (over $63,000) on "management services" provided by its executive director Jai Chabria, who also served as Vance's top political adviser, than it did on programs to fight opioid abuse. In 2017, Vance formed a similarly named 501(c)(3) organization, Our Ohio Renewal Foundation, which raised around $69,000 from 2017 to 2023. As of September 2024, the foundation had not spent any funds since 2019.

    According to the Associated Press (AP) and ProPublica, the charity's biggest accomplishment, sending psychiatrist Sally Satel to Ohio's Appalachian region for a yearlong residency in 2018, was "tainted" by the ties among Satel, her employer, American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and Purdue Pharma, in the form of knowledge exchange between Satel and Purdue and financial support from Purdue to AEI, as found by a ProPublica 2019 investigation. In an email to AP, Satel denied having any relationship with Purdue or any knowledge of Purdue's donations to AEI.

    AppHarvest

    From March 2017 to April 2021, Vance served on the board of directors of the startup AppHarvest, which carried out indoor vertical farming in Kentucky. AppHarvest was also one of Narya Capital's first publicly announced investments; touting the company's commitment to bring good jobs with health care benefits to an economically depressed area of Appalachia, Vance publicly advocated for AppHarvest, in February 2021 telling the media that it was "not just a good investment opportunity, it's a great business that's making a big difference in the world". AppHarvest went bankrupt in 2023 while owing over $340 million. Citing interviews with former AppHarvest workers, CNN reported that some of them believed "Vance and other board members should have recognized and responded to warning signs that company officials were misleading the public and their own investors."

    Company founder Jonathan Webb and top executives collectively had little experience with horticulture and indoor agriculture, and the company struggled to meet its produce buyers' standards. Workers complained to authorities about "brutal" working conditions stemming from high temperatures in company greenhouses coupled with allegedly heavy production demands, lack of safety gear, and few rest and water breaks. After many local workers quit, they were replaced by migrant contract workers mostly from Mexico and Guatemala, who eventually constituted over half the company's labor force. Vance never held an operational role at the company, and his vice-presidential campaign said he had been unaware of the complaints about working conditions and that the decision to hire migrants was made after he resigned from the board.

    U.S. Senate (2023–2025)

    2022 campaign

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    Final results by Ohio county in 2022:
      JD Vance
    •   80–90%
    •   70–80%
    •   60–70%
    •   50–60%
      Tim Ryan
    •   60–70%
    •   50–60%

    In early 2018, Vance considered running for the U.S. Senate against Sherrod Brown, but did not. In March 2021, Peter Thiel gave $10 million to Protect Ohio Values, a super PAC created in February to support a potential Vance candidacy.Robert Mercer also gave an undisclosed amount. In April, Vance expressed interest in running for the Senate seat being vacated by Rob Portman. In May, he launched an exploratory committee.

    Vance announced his Senate campaign in Ohio on July 1, 2021. On May 3, 2022, he won the Republican primary with 32% of the vote, defeating multiple candidates, including Josh Mandel (23%) and Matt Dolan (22%). On November 8, in the general election, Vance defeated Democratic nominee Tim Ryan with 53% of the vote to Ryan's 47%. This vote share was considered a vast underperformance compared to other Ohio Republicans, especially in the coinciding gubernatorial election. Vance had often previously spelled his name with periods after his initials ("J.D.")—including in the publication of Hillbilly Elegy—but after becoming a candidate for office, he removed the periods ("JD").

    Tenure

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    Senate official portrait, 2023

    On January 3, 2023, Vance was sworn into the Senate as a member of the 118th United States Congress. Data from mid-July 2024 showed that he had made 45 Senate speeches and sponsored 57 legislative bills, none of which had passed the Senate. Vance had also co-sponsored 288 bills, of which two passed both the Senate and the House, but were vetoed by President Biden.

    On March 1, Vance and Senator Sherrod Brown cosponsored bipartisan legislation to prevent derailments like the one in East Palestine, but the bill failed due to lack of intra-caucus Republican support. In June 2023, Vance voted against raising the debt ceiling, standing against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 and saying it would result in "a reduced military in the face of a rising threat from China".

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    Vance explaining his "nay" vote on the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, December 2023

    In July 2023, Vance and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced legislation that would have made gender-affirming care for minors a federal crime, with penalties of up to 12 years in prison. In June 2024, Vance sponsored the Dismantle DEI Act, which would ban federal diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and funding for agencies, contractors, and organizations receiving federal funds. Vance was not present for any Senate votes during his vice-presidential campaign.

    At midnight on January 10, 2025, Vance resigned from the Senate in anticipation of his inauguration as the 50th vice president of the United States on January 20, 2025.

    Committee assignments

    • Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
      • Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection subcommittee
      • Housing, Transportation, and Community Development subcommittee
      • Securities, Insurance, and Investment subcommittee
    • Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
      • Communications, Media, and Broadband subcommittee
      • Oceans, Fisheries, Climate Change, and Manufacturing subcommittee
      • Space and Science subcommittee
    • Senate Special Committee on Aging

    2024 presidential election

    Vice-presidential campaign

    On January 31, 2023, Vance endorsed former president Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries. On July 15, 2024, the first day of the Republican National Convention, Trump announced on Truth Social that he had chosen Vance as his running mate. On July 17, the third day of the convention, Vance accepted the nomination to be Trump's running mate.

    Trump's two eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, advocated for their father to choose Vance. Several media and industry figures are said to have lobbied for Vance to be on the presidential ticket, including Elon Musk, David O. Sacks, Tucker Carlson, and Peter Thiel, who first introduced Trump to Vance in 2021. The Heritage Foundation, which drafted Project 2025, privately advocated for Vance to be Trump's vice-presidential pick. Musk responded to Trump's vice-presidential pick hours after its announcement, saying the ticket "resounds with victory". David Sacks, a prominent GOP donor and Silicon Valley venture capitalist, wrote on Twitter: "This is who I want by Trump's side: an American patriot." In 2022, Sacks gave a super PAC supporting Vance's Senate campaign $900,000, and Peter Thiel added $15 million. It was initially reported that Elon Musk would contribute $45 million monthly to the Trump-Vance campaign, but Musk later said he planned to donate "much lower amounts".

    On May 15, 2024, Trump attended a $50,000 per head private fundraising dinner with Vance in Cincinnati. Guests included Chris Bortz and Republican fundraiser Nate Morris. Vance appeared at significant conservative political events and in June was described as a potential running mate for Trump. In July, a former friend of Vance's from Yale Law School exposed to the media communications between them and Vance from 2014 to 2017, with the friend alleging that Vance has "changed [his] opinion on literally every imaginable issue that affects everyday Americans" in pursuit of "political power and wealth".

    In late July 2024, after President Joe Biden withdrew his candidacy for reelection and Vice President Kamala Harris became a presidential candidate, Vance said at a private fundraiser that the "bad news is that Kamala Harris does not have the same baggage as Joe Biden ... Kamala Harris is obviously not struggling in the same ways that Joe Biden did"; a day later, Vance told the media: "I don't think the political calculus changes at all" whether Harris or Biden was the Democratic nominee. Following criticism of his past remarks and political positions, Vance said in an August 2024 interview that a vice president "doesn't really matter" and that "Kamala Harris has been a bad vice president". This came after Trump said that the "vice president, in terms of the election, does not have any impact". In late August, after the Trump campaign was embroiled in controversy for allegedly bringing cameras into a restricted area of Arlington National Cemetery during Trump's visit there, Vance first said that Harris "can go to hell" because "she wants to yell at Donald Trump because he showed up", and then said "Don't do this fake outrage thing". At the time of his comments, Harris had not publicly discussed the incident.

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    Vance, Trump, former New York City Mayor Bloomberg, President Biden, and Vice President Harris at the National September 11 Memorial event in New York City on September 11, 2024

    In August 2024, Vance said that Trump "said that explicitly that he would" veto a national abortion ban. In September 2024, during his debate with Harris, Trump was asked about Vance's statement about the veto, and responded: "I didn't discuss it with JD ... I think he was speaking for me—but I really didn't."

    In late September 2024, Vance spoke at a western Pennsylvania town hall event organized by Lance Wallnau, who has promoted election denialism and called Kamala Harris a "demon". In October 2024, Vance said he did not believe Trump lost the 2020 presidential election and that he believed "Big Tech rigged the election" through censorship.

    Comments on childlessness

    Shortly after being named Trump's running mate, Vance was criticized for saying in a 2021 Fox News interview, "we are effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too." The resurfaced comments, which were posted by MeidasTouch editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski, sparked an immediate backlash across news and social media. On July 26, 2024, Vance clarified his remarks on The Megyn Kelly Show, saying, "It's not a criticism of people who don't have children" and "this is about criticizing the Democratic Party for becoming anti-family and anti-child". He has said that being "pro-babies and pro-family" should be the Republican Party's highest priority.

    After backlash to the Fox News interview, additional comments that Vance had made in interviews about childless people resurfaced. In a 2020 podcast interview, he said that being childless "makes people more sociopathic and ultimately our whole country a little bit less, less mentally stable". Vance's campaign referred to "radical childless leaders in this country" in a fundraising email sent after his appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight. CNN found multiple examples of Vance making similarly disparaging remarks about childless people, primarily Democratic officials. In a 2021 speech at a Center for Christian Virtue leadership meeting, Vance said that childless teachers were "trying to brainwash the minds of our children" and criticized American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, saying: "If she wants to brainwash and destroy the minds of children, she should have some of her own and leave ours the hell alone." He also suggested in a March 2021 interview on The Charlie Kirk Show that childless people should be taxed at a higher rate than those with children, adding that the U.S. should "reward the things that we think are good" and "punish the things that we think are bad". In an August 2024 interview on Face the Nation, Vance said he supported increasing the child tax credit from $2,000 per child to $5,000 per child, even though his Senate Republican colleagues had blocked an expanded child tax credit two weeks earlier while he was absent for the vote, having called it a "show vote" and saying it would not have passed even if he had been present.

    Comments on Haitian immigrants

    In September 2024, Vance made allegations of "Haitian illegal immigrants draining social services and generally causing chaos all over Springfield, Ohio. Reports now show that people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn't be in this country". Trump subsequently echoed the allegations, including during a presidential debate. Springfield authorities said there were "no credible reports or specific claims" of such incidents and that "Haitian immigrants are here legally". Vance then said that it was "possible, of course, that all of these rumors will turn out to be false", but also told his supporters to "keep the cat memes flowing". He then promoted conservative activist Christopher Rufo's allegation that African migrants were eating cats in Dayton, Ohio; Dayton authorities reported "no evidence to even remotely suggest that any group, including our immigrant community, is engaged in eating pets".

    After Vance's claim about Haitians eating pets was disputed, he said: "Do you know what's confirmed? That a child was murdered by a Haitian migrant who had no right to be here"; the child had actually died in an accidental collision between vehicles in Springfield, and the child's father criticized Vance for using the child's "death for political gain". Vance also alleged a "massive rise in communicable diseases" in Springfield, but Clark County's health commissioner reported having "not seen a substantial increase in all reportable communicable diseases". After Vance's and Trump's allegations, Springfield experienced multiple bomb threats in September. Vance denounced "violence or the threat of violence levied against Springfield", but continued his allegations against immigrants there. He defended his claims about Haitian migrants eating cats, saying that he was willing "to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention ... we're creating a story, meaning we're creating the American media focusing on it."

    Vice presidential debate

    These paragraphs are an excerpt from 2024 United States presidential debates § October 1: Vice presidential debate (CBS, New York City).[edit]

    The vice presidential debate was held on Tuesday, October 1, 2024, at 9:00 p.m. EDT at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City.

    CBS stated in late September that the moderators would not fact-check the candidates during the debate, with fact-checking instead handled online and on-air only after the debate. When Vance was fact checked on the status of Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, he objected saying, "The rules were that you were not going to fact check," and argued that the immigrants should not be considered legal because the federal government decided their protected status after they had arrived in the United States. Walz rejected Vance's argument, and the microphones were muted as Vance continued speaking.

    Nielsen Media Research reported that 43 million viewers across CBS and 15 other television networks watched the debate, down from 57 million viewers during the 2020 vice presidential debate.

    Opinion polls

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    Trump, Vance, and their families on stage at the 2024 Republican National Convention

    In July 2024, a CNN poll analysis after the Republican National Convention showed a net-negative approval rating for Vance. That week, Vance's middling public reception and other concerns led some prominent Republican politicians and political analysts to say that he may have been a poor choice of running mate, especially in light of the shift in the election's dynamics upon the withdrawal of President Biden from the election and advent of Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee.

    After the October 2024 vice-presidential debate, A CBS News/YouGov poll of 1,630 likely debate viewers found Vance's favorability rose from 40% to 49%, while Walz's increased from 52% to 60%. Both candidates' unfavorability ratings also declined, with Vance’s dropping from 54% to 47% and Walz’s falling from 41% to 35%. The poll had a margin of error of 2.7 points.

    As of February 20, 2025, according to FiveThirtyEight, Vance's overall favorability was 40.7% and his unfavorability was 42.5%.

    Vice presidency (2025–present)

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    Vance being sworn in as vice president by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on January 20, 2025

    At noon on January 20, 2025, Vance became the 50th vice president of the United States, sworn into the office by Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Before his inauguration, he held a meeting with China's vice president Han Zheng in which they discussed China–United States relations. Vance is the third-youngest person to serve as vice president and the first from the Millennial generation. He is also the first Marine Corps veteran to serve as vice president, becoming the highest-ranking Iraq War veteran in the U.S. government. Vance is also the first vice president since Charles Curtis to have facial hair.[citation needed]

    Among Vance's first acts as vice president was swearing in Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the first of Trump's cabinet nominees to be approved by Congress, on January 21. On January 24, he cast the tie-breaking vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense. In February 2025, after multiple federal judges issued temporary rulings against various Trump administration actions, Vance wrote, "judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power".

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    President Trump and JD Vance with French President Emmanuel Macron on February 24, 2025

    Munich Security Conference

    In his February 2025 speech at the Munich Security Conference (MSC), citing in part what he said were examples in Romania, England, Scotland, and Germany, Vance called "the threat from within" his biggest concern in terms of security for Europe, "not Russia, not China".

    Zelenskyy White House visit

    On February 28, 2025, Vance and Trump met the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the White House's Oval Office in front of journalists in an internationally broadcast event. During the meeting, Vance was mostly quiet during the first 40 minutes, but then interrupted to answer a question about Trump's relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Vance told Zelenskyy: "The path to peace and the path to prosperity is maybe engaging in diplomacy … What makes America a good country is America engaging in diplomacy. That’s what President Trump is doing." Zelenskyy responded that Putin had not abided by a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement with Ukraine, and asked Vance, "What kind of diplomacy, J.D., you are speaking about?"

    The conversation became hostile; Vance replied that he was discussing "diplomacy that’s going to end the destruction of" Ukraine, telling Zeleknskyy: "it’s disrespectful for you to come to the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media … you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems. You should be thanking the president for trying to bring an end to this conflict". Zelenskyy asked whether Vance had ever visited Ukraine; Vance replied that had "watched and seen the stories" about Ukraine, accusing Zelenskyy of showing a "propaganda tour" of Ukraine. He asked whether Zelenskyy had ever offered thanks, despite Zelenskyy starting the conversation by saying "Thank you so much" to Trump. Vance falsely said Zelenskyy "went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in October" 2024; Zelenskyy had actually visited a factory to thank workers producing ammunition for Ukraine, though the timing of the visit and separately calling Vance "too radical" raised suspicion among Republicans. After the meeting, Zelenskyy and his delegation were made to leave the White House, canceling the original plan to sign a minerals deal between Ukraine and the U.S.

    Political positions

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    Vance speaking at the 2024 People's Convention

    The 50th vice president of the United States, JD Vance, has been described as national conservative,right-wing populist, and an ideological successor to paleoconservatives such as Pat Buchanan. Vance describes himself, and has been described by others, as a member of the postliberal right. He is known for his ties to Silicon Valley. Vance has said he is "plugged into a lot of weird, right-wing subcultures" online. He has endorsed books by Heritage Foundation leader Kevin Roberts and far-right conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec.

    On social issues, Vance is considered conservative. He opposes abortion,same-sex marriage, and gun control. He has taken a number of natalist positions. He has repeatedly expressed his belief that childlessness is linked to sociopathy, and advocated that parents have more voting power than non-parents, but in August 2024, he backtracked from that suggestion. Vance has lamented that increased divorces adversely affect children of divorced parents. He has proposed federal criminalization of gender-affirming care for minors. He supports Israel in the Israel–Hamas war. He opposes continued American military aid to Ukraine during the ongoing Russian invasion and prefers a negotiated peace. Vance has argued that the country's largest and most powerful institutions have united against the right and has called for "a de-woke-ification program". He is critical of universities, which he has called "the enemy". Vance is also critical of both the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

    In 2016, Vance was an outspoken critic of then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, calling him "reprehensible" and himself a "never Trump guy". In 2021, after Vance announced his Senate candidacy, he publicly announced support for Trump, apologizing for his past criticisms of Trump and deleting some of them. That year, Vance advised Trump to fire "every civil servant" to replace them with "our people". Vance has said that, unlike Trump's vice president Mike Pence, if he had been vice president during the 2020 presidential election, he would not have certified the election results, instead insisting that some states that Trump lost should send pro-Trump electors so that Congress could decide the election.

    Personal life

    Vance wrote in his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, that he was raised in a low-income family by his single mother and grandmother. In 2013, Vance met Usha Chilukuri while both were students at Yale Law School. In 2014, they married in Kentucky in an interfaith marriage ceremony, as she is Hindu and he is Christian. Their wedding included a Bible reading by Vance's "best friend", Jamil Jivani, and the bride and groom were blessed by a Hindu pandit. Usha clerked for a year for Brett Kavanaugh, at the time an appeals court judge in Washington, then clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts for a year.

    JD and Usha Vance have three children.

    Vance was raised in a "conservative, evangelical" branch of Protestantism. By September 2016, he was "not an active participant" in any particular Christian denomination, but was "thinking very seriously about converting to Catholicism". In August 2019, Vance was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church in a ceremony at St. Gertrude Priory in Cincinnati, Ohio. He chose Augustine of Hippo as his confirmation saint. Vance said he converted because he "became persuaded over time that Catholicism was true [...] and Augustine gave me a way to understand Christian faith in a strongly intellectual way", further describing Catholic theology's alignment with his political views. Vance was influenced to convert to Catholicism by Peter Thiel.

    Electoral history

    2022 United States Senate Republican primary results in Ohio
    Party Candidate Votes %
    Republican JD Vance 344,736 32.22%
    Republican Josh Mandel 255,854 23.92%
    Republican Matt Dolan 249,239 23.30%
    Republican Mike Gibbons 124,653 11.65%
    Republican Jane Timken 62,779 5.87%
    Republican Mark Pukita 22,692 2.12%
    Republican Neil Patel 9,873 0.92%
    Total votes 1,069,826 100.0%
    2022 United States Senate election in Ohio
    Party Candidate Votes % ±%
    Republican JD Vance 2,192,114 53.04% N/A
    Democratic Tim Ryan 1,939,489 46.92% N/A
    Write-in 1,739 0.04% N/A
    Total votes 4,133,342 100.0% N/A
    Republican hold

    Awards and decorations

    Vance's awards and decorations include:

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    Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal Iraq Campaign Medal
    National Defense Service Medal Global War on Terrorism Service Medal Navy and Marine Corps Sea Service Deployment Ribbon

    Works

    • Vance, J. D. (September 24, 2024). Foreword. Dawn's Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America. By Roberts, Kevin. Broadside Books. ISBN 978-0-06-335350-3.

    Notes

    1. Vance was named James Donald Bowman at birth. Afterward, he was adopted by his mother's third husband and had his name changed to James David Hamel. In April 2013, he adopted his maternal grandparents' surname of Vance.
    2. According to archived captures of the websites, by April 28, 2021, the domain ourohiorenewal.com was put on sale by hugedomains.com.
      In August 2022 the Ohio Democratic Party set up a website called Our Ohio Ripoff, and from late August to early November 2022, the domain Renewal redirected the user to the domain Ripoff.
      In July 2024, the domain ourohiorenewal.com remains for sale, and the website ourohioripoff.com remains online.

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    James David Vance born James Donald Bowman August 2 1984 is an American politician author attorney and Marine Corps veteran serving as the 50th vice president of the United States under President Donald Trump A member of the Republican Party he represented Ohio in the U S Senate from 2023 to 2025 JD VanceInaugural portrait 202550th Vice President of the United StatesIncumbentAssumed office January 20 2025PresidentDonald TrumpPreceded byKamala HarrisUnited States Senator from OhioIn office January 3 2023 January 10 2025Preceded byRob PortmanSucceeded byJon HustedPersonal detailsBornJames Donald Bowman 1984 08 02 August 2 1984 age 40 Middletown Ohio U S Political partyRepublicanSpouseUsha Chilukuri m 2014 wbr Children3ResidenceNumber One Observatory CircleEducationOhio State University BA Yale University JD SignatureMilitary serviceBranch serviceUnited States Marine CorpsYears of service2003 2007RankCorporalUnit2nd Marine Aircraft WingBattles warsIraq WarAwardsNavy and Marine Corps Achievement MedalMarine Corps Good Conduct MedalWriting careerGenreMemoirNotable worksHillbilly ElegyVance s voice source source track Vance questions witnesses on the effectiveness of Russian sanctions Recorded February 28 2023 Vance was born in Middletown Ohio After high school Vance joined the Marine Corps where he served as a military journalist from 2003 to 2007 and was deployed to the Iraq War for six months in 2005 He graduated from Ohio State University with a bachelor s degree in 2009 and Yale Law School with a law degree in 2013 He practiced briefly as a corporate lawyer before embarking on a career in the tech industry as a venture capitalist His memoir Hillbilly Elegy was published in 2016 and adapted into a film in 2020 After initially opposing Donald Trump s candidacy in the 2016 election Vance became a strong Trump supporter during Trump s first presidency He won the 2022 United States Senate election in Ohio beating Democratic nominee Tim Ryan Vance served as Ohio s senator from January 2023 to January 2025 In July 2024 Trump selected Vance as his running mate before the Republican National Convention Trump and Vance won the 2024 United States presidential election defeating Kamala Harris and Tim Walz Vance is the third youngest vice president in U S history and the first millennial to hold the office Vance has been characterized as a national conservative and right wing populist and he describes himself as a member of the postliberal right His political positions include opposition to abortion same sex marriage and gun control Vance is an outspoken critic of childlessness and has acknowledged the influence of Catholic theology on his sociopolitical positions Early life military service and educationVance was born James Donald Bowman on August 2 1984 in Middletown Ohio to Beverly Carol nee Vance and Donald Ray Bowman He is of Scots Irish descent and Appalachian American ancestry spending time in his youth living with family in Jackson Kentucky His parents divorced when he was a toddler After Bowman was adopted by his mother s third husband Bob Hamel his mother changed his name to James David Hamel to remove his father s first name and surname and to preserve an uncle s first name David Vance therefore kept his nickname JD Vance has written that his childhood was marked by poverty and abuse and that his mother struggled with drug addiction He and his sister Lindsey were raised primarily by their maternal grandparents James and Bonnie Vance nee Blanton whom they called Papaw and Mamaw Vance then Hamel in the U S Marine Corps 2003 After graduating from Middletown High School in 2003 Vance enlisted in the United States Marine Corps serving as a military journalist with the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing During his four years of service he was deployed to the Iraq War in 2005 for six months in a non combat role writing articles and taking photographs He attained the rank of corporal and his decorations included the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal and the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal In 2007 Vance left the military and used the G I Bill to study political science and philosophy at Ohio State University He graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude Vance then attended Yale Law School where he was a member of The Yale Law Journal During his first year Professor Amy Chua persuaded Vance to begin writing his memoir Hillbilly Elegy Vance also initiated a rapport with Peter Thiel after attending his 2011 talk at Yale In 2010 2011 Vance wrote for David Frum s FrumForum website under the name J D Hamel Although Hillbilly Elegy states that he adopted his grandparents surname of Vance upon his marriage in 2014 the name change actually occurred in 2013 as Vance was about to graduate from Yale Early careerAfter graduating from law school Vance worked for Republican senator John Cornyn He spent a year as a law clerk for Judge David Bunning of the U S District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky then worked at the law firm Sidley Austin beginning a brief career as a corporate lawyer Having practiced law for slightly under two years Vance moved to San Francisco to work in the technology industry as a venture capitalist Between 2016 and 2017 he served as a principal at Peter Thiel s firm Mithril Capital In June 2016 Harper published Vance s book Hillbilly Elegy A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis The memoir recounts the Appalachian culture and socioeconomic problems of Vance s small town upbringing Hillbilly Elegy was on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2016 and 2017 The Times listed it among 6 Books to Help Understand Trump s Win and Vance was profiled in The Washington Post which called him the voice of the Rust Belt In The New Republic Sarah Jones criticized Vance as liberal media s favorite white trash splainer and a false prophet of blue America calling the book little more than a list of myths about welfare queens Hillbilly Elegy s success helped propel Vance into contact with social elites and he began writing a column for The New York Times Vance later said that his interactions with social elites from this time particularly their perceived disdain for the people he grew up with helped shape his later views In 2017 Vance joined Revolution LLC an investment firm founded by Steve Case Vance was tasked with expanding the Rise of the Rest initiative which focuses on growing investments in underserved regions outside Silicon Valley and New York City Vance was a CNN contributor in 2017 and 2018 In April 2017 Ron Howard signed on to direct the film version of Hillbilly Elegy which was released in select theaters on November 11 2020 It was released on Netflix for streaming In 2019 Vance served on the board of advisors of the With Honor Fund a Super PAC that helps veterans run for office From 2020 to 2023 he served on the board of advisors of American Moment a networking and training organization for young conservatives that is affiliated with Project 2025 In 2019 Vance and Chris Buskirk co founded the conservative political advocacy group Rockbridge Network That year he also co founded venture capital firm Narya Capital in Cincinnati with financial backing from Thiel Eric Schmidt and Marc Andreessen During 2020 he raised 93 million for the firm With Peter Thiel and former Trump adviser Darren Blanton Vance invested in Rumble a Canadian online video platform popular with the political right Our Ohio Renewal Vance speaks to the City Club of Cleveland May 2017 In December 2016 Vance said he planned to move to Ohio and would consider starting a nonprofit or running for office In Ohio he started Our Ohio Renewal a 501 c 4 advocacy organization focused on education addiction and other social ills he had mentioned in his memoir According to a 2017 archived capture of the nonprofit s website the members of the advisory board were Keith Humphreys Jamil Jivani Yuval Levin and Sally Satel According to a 2020 capture of the website those four remained in those positions throughout the organization s existence Our Ohio Renewal closed by 2021 with sparse achievements According to Jivani the organization s director of law and policy its work was derailed by Jivani s cancer diagnosis It raised around 221 000 in 2017 including 80 000 from Vance himself and spent the majority of its revenue on overhead costs and travel In subsequent years it raised less than 50 000 During Vance s 2022 campaign for U S Senate Tim Ryan the Democratic nominee said the charity was a front for Vance s political ambitions Ryan pointed to reports that the organization paid a Vance political adviser and conducted public opinion polling while its efforts to address addiction failed Vance denied the characterization Our Ohio Renewal s tax filings showed that in its first year it spent more over 63 000 on management services provided by its executive director Jai Chabria who also served as Vance s top political adviser than it did on programs to fight opioid abuse In 2017 Vance formed a similarly named 501 c 3 organization Our Ohio Renewal Foundation which raised around 69 000 from 2017 to 2023 As of September 2024 the foundation had not spent any funds since 2019 According to the Associated Press AP and ProPublica the charity s biggest accomplishment sending psychiatrist Sally Satel to Ohio s Appalachian region for a yearlong residency in 2018 was tainted by the ties among Satel her employer American Enterprise Institute AEI and Purdue Pharma in the form of knowledge exchange between Satel and Purdue and financial support from Purdue to AEI as found by a ProPublica 2019 investigation In an email to AP Satel denied having any relationship with Purdue or any knowledge of Purdue s donations to AEI AppHarvest From March 2017 to April 2021 Vance served on the board of directors of the startup AppHarvest which carried out indoor vertical farming in Kentucky AppHarvest was also one of Narya Capital s first publicly announced investments touting the company s commitment to bring good jobs with health care benefits to an economically depressed area of Appalachia Vance publicly advocated for AppHarvest in February 2021 telling the media that it was not just a good investment opportunity it s a great business that s making a big difference in the world AppHarvest went bankrupt in 2023 while owing over 340 million Citing interviews with former AppHarvest workers CNN reported that some of them believed Vance and other board members should have recognized and responded to warning signs that company officials were misleading the public and their own investors Company founder Jonathan Webb and top executives collectively had little experience with horticulture and indoor agriculture and the company struggled to meet its produce buyers standards Workers complained to authorities about brutal working conditions stemming from high temperatures in company greenhouses coupled with allegedly heavy production demands lack of safety gear and few rest and water breaks After many local workers quit they were replaced by migrant contract workers mostly from Mexico and Guatemala who eventually constituted over half the company s labor force Vance never held an operational role at the company and his vice presidential campaign said he had been unaware of the complaints about working conditions and that the decision to hire migrants was made after he resigned from the board U S Senate 2023 2025 2022 campaign Final results by Ohio county in 2022 JD Vance 80 90 70 80 60 70 50 60 Tim Ryan 60 70 50 60 In early 2018 Vance considered running for the U S Senate against Sherrod Brown but did not In March 2021 Peter Thiel gave 10 million to Protect Ohio Values a super PAC created in February to support a potential Vance candidacy Robert Mercer also gave an undisclosed amount In April Vance expressed interest in running for the Senate seat being vacated by Rob Portman In May he launched an exploratory committee Vance announced his Senate campaign in Ohio on July 1 2021 On May 3 2022 he won the Republican primary with 32 of the vote defeating multiple candidates including Josh Mandel 23 and Matt Dolan 22 On November 8 in the general election Vance defeated Democratic nominee Tim Ryan with 53 of the vote to Ryan s 47 This vote share was considered a vast underperformance compared to other Ohio Republicans especially in the coinciding gubernatorial election Vance had often previously spelled his name with periods after his initials J D including in the publication of Hillbilly Elegy but after becoming a candidate for office he removed the periods JD Tenure Senate official portrait 2023 On January 3 2023 Vance was sworn into the Senate as a member of the 118th United States Congress Data from mid July 2024 showed that he had made 45 Senate speeches and sponsored 57 legislative bills none of which had passed the Senate Vance had also co sponsored 288 bills of which two passed both the Senate and the House but were vetoed by President Biden On March 1 Vance and Senator Sherrod Brown cosponsored bipartisan legislation to prevent derailments like the one in East Palestine but the bill failed due to lack of intra caucus Republican support In June 2023 Vance voted against raising the debt ceiling standing against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 and saying it would result in a reduced military in the face of a rising threat from China Vance explaining his nay vote on the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 December 2023 In July 2023 Vance and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced legislation that would have made gender affirming care for minors a federal crime with penalties of up to 12 years in prison In June 2024 Vance sponsored the Dismantle DEI Act which would ban federal diversity equity and inclusion programs and funding for agencies contractors and organizations receiving federal funds Vance was not present for any Senate votes during his vice presidential campaign At midnight on January 10 2025 Vance resigned from the Senate in anticipation of his inauguration as the 50th vice president of the United States on January 20 2025 Committee assignments Senate Committee on Banking Housing and Urban Affairs Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection subcommittee Housing Transportation and Community Development subcommittee Securities Insurance and Investment subcommittee Senate Committee on Commerce Science and Transportation Communications Media and Broadband subcommittee Oceans Fisheries Climate Change and Manufacturing subcommittee Space and Science subcommittee Senate Special Committee on Aging2024 presidential electionVice presidential campaign On January 31 2023 Vance endorsed former president Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries On July 15 2024 the first day of the Republican National Convention Trump announced on Truth Social that he had chosen Vance as his running mate On July 17 the third day of the convention Vance accepted the nomination to be Trump s running mate Trump s two eldest sons Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump advocated for their father to choose Vance Several media and industry figures are said to have lobbied for Vance to be on the presidential ticket including Elon Musk David O Sacks Tucker Carlson and Peter Thiel who first introduced Trump to Vance in 2021 The Heritage Foundation which drafted Project 2025 privately advocated for Vance to be Trump s vice presidential pick Musk responded to Trump s vice presidential pick hours after its announcement saying the ticket resounds with victory David Sacks a prominent GOP donor and Silicon Valley venture capitalist wrote on Twitter This is who I want by Trump s side an American patriot In 2022 Sacks gave a super PAC supporting Vance s Senate campaign 900 000 and Peter Thiel added 15 million It was initially reported that Elon Musk would contribute 45 million monthly to the Trump Vance campaign but Musk later said he planned to donate much lower amounts On May 15 2024 Trump attended a 50 000 per head private fundraising dinner with Vance in Cincinnati Guests included Chris Bortz and Republican fundraiser Nate Morris Vance appeared at significant conservative political events and in June was described as a potential running mate for Trump In July a former friend of Vance s from Yale Law School exposed to the media communications between them and Vance from 2014 to 2017 with the friend alleging that Vance has changed his opinion on literally every imaginable issue that affects everyday Americans in pursuit of political power and wealth In late July 2024 after President Joe Biden withdrew his candidacy for reelection and Vice President Kamala Harris became a presidential candidate Vance said at a private fundraiser that the bad news is that Kamala Harris does not have the same baggage as Joe Biden Kamala Harris is obviously not struggling in the same ways that Joe Biden did a day later Vance told the media I don t think the political calculus changes at all whether Harris or Biden was the Democratic nominee Following criticism of his past remarks and political positions Vance said in an August 2024 interview that a vice president doesn t really matter and that Kamala Harris has been a bad vice president This came after Trump said that the vice president in terms of the election does not have any impact In late August after the Trump campaign was embroiled in controversy for allegedly bringing cameras into a restricted area of Arlington National Cemetery during Trump s visit there Vance first said that Harris can go to hell because she wants to yell at Donald Trump because he showed up and then said Don t do this fake outrage thing At the time of his comments Harris had not publicly discussed the incident Vance Trump former New York City Mayor Bloomberg President Biden and Vice President Harris at the National September 11 Memorial event in New York City on September 11 2024 In August 2024 Vance said that Trump said that explicitly that he would veto a national abortion ban In September 2024 during his debate with Harris Trump was asked about Vance s statement about the veto and responded I didn t discuss it with JD I think he was speaking for me but I really didn t In late September 2024 Vance spoke at a western Pennsylvania town hall event organized by Lance Wallnau who has promoted election denialism and called Kamala Harris a demon In October 2024 Vance said he did not believe Trump lost the 2020 presidential election and that he believed Big Tech rigged the election through censorship Comments on childlessness Shortly after being named Trump s running mate Vance was criticized for saying in a 2021 Fox News interview we are effectively run in this country via the Democrats via our corporate oligarchs by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too The resurfaced comments which were posted by MeidasTouch editor in chief Ron Filipkowski sparked an immediate backlash across news and social media On July 26 2024 Vance clarified his remarks on The Megyn Kelly Show saying It s not a criticism of people who don t have children and this is about criticizing the Democratic Party for becoming anti family and anti child He has said that being pro babies and pro family should be the Republican Party s highest priority After backlash to the Fox News interview additional comments that Vance had made in interviews about childless people resurfaced In a 2020 podcast interview he said that being childless makes people more sociopathic and ultimately our whole country a little bit less less mentally stable Vance s campaign referred to radical childless leaders in this country in a fundraising email sent after his appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight CNN found multiple examples of Vance making similarly disparaging remarks about childless people primarily Democratic officials In a 2021 speech at a Center for Christian Virtue leadership meeting Vance said that childless teachers were trying to brainwash the minds of our children and criticized American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten saying If she wants to brainwash and destroy the minds of children she should have some of her own and leave ours the hell alone He also suggested in a March 2021 interview on The Charlie Kirk Show that childless people should be taxed at a higher rate than those with children adding that the U S should reward the things that we think are good and punish the things that we think are bad In an August 2024 interview on Face the Nation Vance said he supported increasing the child tax credit from 2 000 per child to 5 000 per child even though his Senate Republican colleagues had blocked an expanded child tax credit two weeks earlier while he was absent for the vote having called it a show vote and saying it would not have passed even if he had been present Comments on Haitian immigrants In September 2024 Vance made allegations of Haitian illegal immigrants draining social services and generally causing chaos all over Springfield Ohio Reports now show that people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn t be in this country Trump subsequently echoed the allegations including during a presidential debate Springfield authorities said there were no credible reports or specific claims of such incidents and that Haitian immigrants are here legally Vance then said that it was possible of course that all of these rumors will turn out to be false but also told his supporters to keep the cat memes flowing He then promoted conservative activist Christopher Rufo s allegation that African migrants were eating cats in Dayton Ohio Dayton authorities reported no evidence to even remotely suggest that any group including our immigrant community is engaged in eating pets After Vance s claim about Haitians eating pets was disputed he said Do you know what s confirmed That a child was murdered by a Haitian migrant who had no right to be here the child had actually died in an accidental collision between vehicles in Springfield and the child s father criticized Vance for using the child s death for political gain Vance also alleged a massive rise in communicable diseases in Springfield but Clark County s health commissioner reported having not seen a substantial increase in all reportable communicable diseases After Vance s and Trump s allegations Springfield experienced multiple bomb threats in September Vance denounced violence or the threat of violence levied against Springfield but continued his allegations against immigrants there He defended his claims about Haitian migrants eating cats saying that he was willing to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention we re creating a story meaning we re creating the American media focusing on it Vice presidential debate These paragraphs are an excerpt from 2024 United States presidential debates October 1 Vice presidential debate CBS New York City edit The vice presidential debate was held on Tuesday October 1 2024 at 9 00 p m EDT at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City CBS stated in late September that the moderators would not fact check the candidates during the debate with fact checking instead handled online and on air only after the debate When Vance was fact checked on the status of Haitian immigrants in Springfield Ohio he objected saying The rules were that you were not going to fact check and argued that the immigrants should not be considered legal because the federal government decided their protected status after they had arrived in the United States Walz rejected Vance s argument and the microphones were muted as Vance continued speaking Nielsen Media Research reported that 43 million viewers across CBS and 15 other television networks watched the debate down from 57 million viewers during the 2020 vice presidential debate Opinion polls Trump Vance and their families on stage at the 2024 Republican National Convention In July 2024 a CNN poll analysis after the Republican National Convention showed a net negative approval rating for Vance That week Vance s middling public reception and other concerns led some prominent Republican politicians and political analysts to say that he may have been a poor choice of running mate especially in light of the shift in the election s dynamics upon the withdrawal of President Biden from the election and advent of Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee After the October 2024 vice presidential debate A CBS News YouGov poll of 1 630 likely debate viewers found Vance s favorability rose from 40 to 49 while Walz s increased from 52 to 60 Both candidates unfavorability ratings also declined with Vance s dropping from 54 to 47 and Walz s falling from 41 to 35 The poll had a margin of error of 2 7 points As of February 20 2025 according to FiveThirtyEight Vance s overall favorability was 40 7 and his unfavorability was 42 5 Vice presidency 2025 present Vance being sworn in as vice president by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on January 20 2025 At noon on January 20 2025 Vance became the 50th vice president of the United States sworn into the office by Justice Brett Kavanaugh Before his inauguration he held a meeting with China s vice president Han Zheng in which they discussed China United States relations Vance is the third youngest person to serve as vice president and the first from the Millennial generation He is also the first Marine Corps veteran to serve as vice president becoming the highest ranking Iraq War veteran in the U S government Vance is also the first vice president since Charles Curtis to have facial hair citation needed Among Vance s first acts as vice president was swearing in Secretary of State Marco Rubio the first of Trump s cabinet nominees to be approved by Congress on January 21 On January 24 he cast the tie breaking vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense In February 2025 after multiple federal judges issued temporary rulings against various Trump administration actions Vance wrote judges aren t allowed to control the executive s legitimate power President Trump and JD Vance with French President Emmanuel Macron on February 24 2025Munich Security Conference In his February 2025 speech at the Munich Security Conference MSC citing in part what he said were examples in Romania England Scotland and Germany Vance called the threat from within his biggest concern in terms of security for Europe not Russia not China Zelenskyy White House visit On February 28 2025 Vance and Trump met the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the White House s Oval Office in front of journalists in an internationally broadcast event During the meeting Vance was mostly quiet during the first 40 minutes but then interrupted to answer a question about Trump s relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin Vance told Zelenskyy The path to peace and the path to prosperity is maybe engaging in diplomacy What makes America a good country is America engaging in diplomacy That s what President Trump is doing Zelenskyy responded that Putin had not abided by a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement with Ukraine and asked Vance What kind of diplomacy J D you are speaking about The conversation became hostile Vance replied that he was discussing diplomacy that s going to end the destruction of Ukraine telling Zeleknskyy it s disrespectful for you to come to the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems You should be thanking the president for trying to bring an end to this conflict Zelenskyy asked whether Vance had ever visited Ukraine Vance replied that had watched and seen the stories about Ukraine accusing Zelenskyy of showing a propaganda tour of Ukraine He asked whether Zelenskyy had ever offered thanks despite Zelenskyy starting the conversation by saying Thank you so much to Trump Vance falsely said Zelenskyy went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in October 2024 Zelenskyy had actually visited a factory to thank workers producing ammunition for Ukraine though the timing of the visit and separately calling Vance too radical raised suspicion among Republicans After the meeting Zelenskyy and his delegation were made to leave the White House canceling the original plan to sign a minerals deal between Ukraine and the U S Political positionsThis section is an excerpt from Political positions of JD Vance edit This article contains too many quotations Please help summarize the quotations Consider transferring direct quotations to Wikiquote or excerpts to Wikisource March 2025 Learn how and when to remove this message Vance speaking at the 2024 People s Convention The 50th vice president of the United States JD Vance has been described as national conservative right wing populist and an ideological successor to paleoconservatives such as Pat Buchanan Vance describes himself and has been described by others as a member of the postliberal right He is known for his ties to Silicon Valley Vance has said he is plugged into a lot of weird right wing subcultures online He has endorsed books by Heritage Foundation leader Kevin Roberts and far right conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec On social issues Vance is considered conservative He opposes abortion same sex marriage and gun control He has taken a number of natalist positions He has repeatedly expressed his belief that childlessness is linked to sociopathy and advocated that parents have more voting power than non parents but in August 2024 he backtracked from that suggestion Vance has lamented that increased divorces adversely affect children of divorced parents He has proposed federal criminalization of gender affirming care for minors He supports Israel in the Israel Hamas war He opposes continued American military aid to Ukraine during the ongoing Russian invasion and prefers a negotiated peace Vance has argued that the country s largest and most powerful institutions have united against the right and has called for a de woke ification program He is critical of universities which he has called the enemy Vance is also critical of both the U S Department of Justice DOJ and the Federal Bureau of Investigation In 2016 Vance was an outspoken critic of then Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump calling him reprehensible and himself a never Trump guy In 2021 after Vance announced his Senate candidacy he publicly announced support for Trump apologizing for his past criticisms of Trump and deleting some of them That year Vance advised Trump to fire every civil servant to replace them with our people Vance has said that unlike Trump s vice president Mike Pence if he had been vice president during the 2020 presidential election he would not have certified the election results instead insisting that some states that Trump lost should send pro Trump electors so that Congress could decide the election Personal lifeVance wrote in his memoir Hillbilly Elegy that he was raised in a low income family by his single mother and grandmother In 2013 Vance met Usha Chilukuri while both were students at Yale Law School In 2014 they married in Kentucky in an interfaith marriage ceremony as she is Hindu and he is Christian Their wedding included a Bible reading by Vance s best friend Jamil Jivani and the bride and groom were blessed by a Hindu pandit Usha clerked for a year for Brett Kavanaugh at the time an appeals court judge in Washington then clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts for a year JD and Usha Vance have three children Vance was raised in a conservative evangelical branch of Protestantism By September 2016 he was not an active participant in any particular Christian denomination but was thinking very seriously about converting to Catholicism In August 2019 Vance was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church in a ceremony at St Gertrude Priory in Cincinnati Ohio He chose Augustine of Hippo as his confirmation saint Vance said he converted because he became persuaded over time that Catholicism was true and Augustine gave me a way to understand Christian faith in a strongly intellectual way further describing Catholic theology s alignment with his political views Vance was influenced to convert to Catholicism by Peter Thiel Electoral history2022 United States Senate Republican primary results in Ohio Party Candidate Votes Republican JD Vance 344 736 32 22 Republican Josh Mandel 255 854 23 92 Republican Matt Dolan 249 239 23 30 Republican Mike Gibbons 124 653 11 65 Republican Jane Timken 62 779 5 87 Republican Mark Pukita 22 692 2 12 Republican Neil Patel 9 873 0 92 Total votes 1 069 826 100 0 2022 United States Senate election in Ohio Party Candidate Votes Republican JD Vance 2 192 114 53 04 N ADemocratic Tim Ryan 1 939 489 46 92 N AWrite in 1 739 0 04 N ATotal votes 4 133 342 100 0 N ARepublican holdAwards and decorationsVance s awards and decorations include Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal Iraq Campaign MedalNational Defense Service Medal Global War on Terrorism Service Medal Navy and Marine Corps Sea Service Deployment RibbonWorksVance J D September 24 2024 Foreword Dawn s Early Light Taking Back Washington to Save America By Roberts Kevin Broadside Books ISBN 978 0 06 335350 3 NotesVance was named James Donald Bowman at birth Afterward he was adopted by his mother s third husband and had his name changed to James David Hamel In April 2013 he adopted his maternal grandparents surname of Vance According to archived captures of the websites by April 28 2021 the domain ourohiorenewal com was put on sale by hugedomains com In August 2022 the Ohio Democratic Party set up a website called Our Ohio Ripoff and from late August to early November 2022 the domain Renewal redirected the user to the domain Ripoff In July 2024 the domain ourohiorenewal com remains for sale and the website ourohioripoff com remains online ReferencesSmyth Julie Carr July 26 2024 What s in a name Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance has had many of them Associated Press Archived from the original on July 27 2024 Retrieved July 27 2024 O Brien Rebecca Davis July 15 2024 J D Vance Was Not Always His Name But It s the One That Felt Closest to Home The New York Times Archived from the original on July 19 2024 Retrieved July 25 2024 Ward Ian July 15 2024 55 Things to Know About JD Vance Trump s VP Pick Politico Archived from the original on July 15 2024 Retrieved July 16 2024 Vance J D 2016 Hillbilly Elegy A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis New York Harper ISBN 978 0 06 230054 6 LCCN 2016304613 OCLC 952097610 Rothman Joshua September 12 2016 The Lives of 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from the original on April 13 2021 Retrieved April 13 2021 Balmert Jessie March 15 2021 Super PAC supporting potential Senate candidate J D Vance gets 10 million donation from PayPal cofounder The Cincinnati Enquirer Archived from the original on March 15 2021 Retrieved March 16 2021 Primack Dan April 15 2021 J D Vance tells associates he plans to run for Senate in Ohio Axios Archived from the original on April 18 2021 Retrieved April 30 2021 De Lea Brittany May 12 2021 Hillbilly Elegy author J D Vance forms exploratory committee to run for Senate seat in Ohio report Fox News Archived from the original on May 12 2021 Retrieved May 12 2021 Shivaram Deepa May 3 2022 After Trump s endorsement J D Vance wins a crowded Ohio GOP Senate race the AP says NPR Archived from the original on November 14 2022 Retrieved November 14 2022 Linton Caroline Brewster Adam Navarro Aaron May 4 2022 Ohio primary results Trump backed J D Vance wins Republican Senate race CBS News Archived from the original on 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2024 Retrieved January 10 2025 Lessons from East Palestine have yet to be made law Pittsburg Post Gazette October 25 2024 Retrieved January 10 2025 Elverd Stephanie December 21 2024 Nearly two years after the derailment preventative legislation is stalled Herald Star Archived from the original on December 23 2024 Retrieved January 10 2025 Folley Aris June 1 2023 Here are the senators who voted against the bill to raise the debt ceiling The Hill Archived from the original on June 18 2023 Retrieved June 17 2023 BeMiller Haley June 2 2023 Only one Ohio lawmaker opposed a bipartisan deal to avoid federal government default Cincinnati Enquirer Retrieved October 12 2024 Livingston Doug July 17 2024 What We Know About J D Vance s Legislative Action on Criminal Justice The Marshall Project Archived from the original on July 20 2024 Retrieved July 20 2024 Daniels Cheyanne M June 12 2024 Republicans introduce measure banning DEI in federal government The Hill Retrieved October 12 2024 Eaton Sabrina August 21 2024 From banning X gender passports to dismantling federal DEI programs 13 items on JD Vance s legislative wish list The Plain Dealer Cleveland Retrieved October 12 2024 Eaton Sabrina October 21 2024 JD Vance has missed every U S Senate vote since becoming Donald Trump s vice presidential running mate The Plain Dealer Cleveland Retrieved October 22 2024 Caldwell Leigh Ann Meyer Theodoric Dent Alec September 25 2024 JD Vance has been MIA in the Senate Does it matter The Washington Post Archived from the original on September 25 2024 Retrieved October 22 2024 Fortinsky Sarah January 9 2025 Vance resigning his Senate seat at midnight The Hill Retrieved January 13 2025 Carey Tyler January 31 2023 Ohio US Sen JD Vance endorses Donald Trump in 2024 presidential election WKYC Archived from the original on July 18 2024 Retrieved July 15 2024 Wendling Mike July 16 2024 JD Vance was once never Trump Now he s his running mate BBC News Archived from the original on August 8 2024 Retrieved August 8 2024 I m a never Trump guy I never liked him and My god what an idiot and I find him reprehensible and I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole or that he s America s Hitler Gomez Henry J July 15 2024 Trump picks Ohio Sen JD Vance for vice president NBC News Archived from the original on July 15 2024 Retrieved July 15 2024 Colvin Jill Cooper Jonathan J Peoples Steve July 17 2024 JD Vance introduces himself as Trump s running mate and makes direct appeal to his native Rust Belt Associated Press Archived from the original on July 17 2024 Retrieved July 17 2024 Oamek Paige July 16 2024 How Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk Secretly Lobbied Trump on J D Vance The New Republic ISSN 0028 6583 Archived from the original on July 17 2024 Retrieved July 17 2024 Schleifer Theodore July 27 2024 Peter Thiel Elated by the JD Vance Pick Warms to Trump Again The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Archived from the original on August 20 2024 Retrieved August 20 2024 Riccardi Nicholas July 15 2024 Outside RNC conservative group defends its Project 2025 guidebook as Democrats ramp up critiques Associated Press Archived from the original on July 16 2024 Retrieved July 15 2024 Dwoskin Elizabeth Zakrzewski Cat Tiku Nitasha Dawsey Josh July 28 2024 Inside the powerful Peter Thiel network that anointed JD Vance The Washington Post Kelly Makena July 16 2024 Elon Musk Among Tech Heavyweights to Rally Behind J D Vance VP Pick Wired Archived from the original on July 21 2024 Retrieved July 21 2024 Lutz Eric July 24 2024 Surprise Elon Musk Says He Isn t Actually Donating 45 Million a Month to Trump Vanity Fair Archived from the original on July 25 2024 Retrieved July 26 2024 Breuninger Kevin July 25 2024 Trump says Elon Musk never told me he would pledge 45 million a month to campaign CNBC Archived from the original on July 25 2024 Retrieved July 26 2024 Gomez Henry J May 1 2024 Trump to hold Ohio fundraiser with VP contender JD Vance NBC News Archived from the original on July 3 2024 Retrieved July 15 2024 Alvarez Brinez Ana Rocio Wartman Scott Coolidge Sharon BeMiller Haley May 16 2024 Donald Trump was spotted at Northern Kentucky Cincinnati airport Why Who was he with Courier Journal Archived from the original on September 1 2024 Retrieved July 15 2024 Niquette Mark Dennis Steven T June 20 2024 JD Vance VP Speculation Caps Rise From Poverty to Washington Bloomberg News Archived from the original on July 16 2024 Retrieved July 16 2024 Tobias Andrew J June 23 2024 Ohio s JD Vance could be Donald Trump s running mate What would happen to his Senate seat if he wins The Plain Dealer Cleveland Archived from the original on July 16 2024 Retrieved July 16 2024 Saul Stephanie July 29 2024 JD Vance an Unlikely Friendship and Why It Ended The New York Times Archived from the original on July 30 2024 Retrieved July 31 2024 Bradner Eric July 30 2024 JD Vance s former Yale classmate and friend says emails show political transformation on literally every imaginable issue CNN Archived from the original on August 29 2024 Retrieved July 31 2024 Arnsdorf Isaac July 29 2024 Vance tells donors Harris change was a sucker punch at odds with campaign The Washington Post Archived from the original on July 30 2024 Retrieved July 31 2024 Mitovich Jared August 2 2024 JD Vance suggests VP picks don t matter Politico Retrieved August 4 2024 Vazquez Maegan August 29 2024 Vance tells Harris to go to hell for cemetery criticism she didn t give The Washington Post Archived from the original on August 29 2024 Retrieved August 29 2024 Delaney Arthur August 28 2024 JD Vance Says Kamala Harris Can Go To Hell HuffPost Retrieved August 29 2024 Kornfield Meryl August 29 2024 Vance defends telling Harris to go to hell for nonexistent cemetery criticism The Washington Post Archived from the original on August 30 2024 Retrieved August 30 2024 Suter Tara August 24 2024 Vance says Trump would veto federal abortion ban The Hill Archived from the original on September 12 2024 Retrieved September 13 2024 Cameron Chris September 11 2024 Trump Undermines Vance on Abortion Ban Veto I Didn t Discuss It With JD The New York Times Archived from the original on September 11 2024 Retrieved September 13 2024 Fernando Christine September 12 2024 Trump wouldn t say whether he d veto a national ban even as abortion remains a top election issue Associated Press Archived from the original on September 13 2024 Retrieved September 13 2024 Kornfield Meryl Allam Hannah September 28 2024 Vance appears at event hosted by hard right Christian nationalist The Washington Post Archived from the original on October 2 2024 Retrieved September 29 2024 Dias Elizabeth Cameron Chris September 28 2024 Vance Appears at Event of Evangelical Leader Who Spoke of Harris s Witchcraft The New York Times Archived from the original on September 29 2024 Retrieved September 29 2024 Bennett Geoff September 30 2024 The significance of Vance s appearance at event hosted by far right Christian nationalist PBS News Hour Archived from the original on October 2 2024 Retrieved October 1 2024 Hernandez Alec October 16 2024 Vance says Trump didn t lose the 2020 election Not by the words I would use NBC News Retrieved November 3 2024 Reinstein Julia July 25 2024 JD Vance slammed for childless cat ladies comment ABC News Archived from the original on July 26 2024 Retrieved July 26 2024 Alund Natalie Neysa July 24 2024 Vance s childless cat ladies comment sparks uproar from Swift fans Armageddon is coming USA Today Archived from the original on August 18 2024 Retrieved July 31 2024 Burke Minyvonne July 25 2024 Jennifer Aniston slams JD Vance over childless cat ladies comment from resurfaced interview NBC News Archived from the original on August 18 2024 Retrieved July 31 2024 Samuels Brett July 26 2024 Vance defends sarcastic childless cat ladies remarks amid blowback The Hill Archived from the original on July 26 2024 Retrieved July 26 2024 Corn David August 1 2024 JD Vance Attacked AOC for Promoting a Sociopathic Attitude About Children Mother Jones Archived from the original on August 8 2024 Retrieved August 11 2024 Sforza Lauren July 30 2024 Vance Childless people in US leadership more sociopathic The Hill Archived from the original on July 31 2024 Retrieved July 31 2024 Kaczynski Andrew Steck Em July 30 2024 It s not just cat ladies JD Vance has a history of disparaging people without kids CNN Politics Archived from the original on September 3 2024 Retrieved September 3 2024 Richards Zoe August 27 2024 In resurfaced remarks Vance bashes teachers union president for not having some of her own children NBC News Archived from the original on August 28 2024 Retrieved August 28 2024 Steakin Will Faulders Katherine July 26 2024 Vance argued for higher tax rate on childless Americans in 2021 interview ABC News Archived from the original on July 27 2024 Retrieved July 27 2024 Dore Kate August 12 2024 Vance wants to raise the child tax credit to 5 000 Here s why that could be difficult CNBC Archived from the original on August 14 2024 Retrieved August 14 2024 Picchi Aimee August 12 2024 JD Vance wants a 5 000 Child Tax Credit or 150 more than the current CTC Here s what to know CBS News Archived from the original on August 29 2024 Retrieved August 14 2024 Bernal Rafael September 9 2024 Vance pushes false accusations of Haitians eating pets The Hill Archived from the original on September 10 2024 Retrieved September 10 2024 Ingram David September 10 2024 Ohio police have no credible reports of Haitian immigrants harming pets contradicting JD Vance s claim NBC News Archived from the original on September 11 2024 Retrieved September 10 2024 Maher Kit September 10 2024 Vance says false claim he spread against Haitian migrants may not be true but urges followers to keep posting cat memes CNN Archived from the original on September 11 2024 Retrieved September 11 2024 Valdez Aaron September 14 2024 JD Vance shares social media post about immigrants cooking pets in Dayton city refutes it Cincinnati Enquirer Archived from the original on September 14 2024 Retrieved September 15 2024 Tarrant Rhona September 14 2024 Ohio police dispute new allegations immigrants are eating pets in Dayton CBS News Archived from the original on September 14 2024 Retrieved September 15 2024 Jingnan Huo Garsd Jasmine September 10 2024 JD Vance spreads debunked claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets NPR Archived from the original on September 11 2024 Retrieved September 14 2024 Paybarah Azi September 11 2024 Grieving Ohio father to Trump and Vance Stop using my son for political gain The Washington Post Archived from the original on September 11 2024 Retrieved September 14 2024 Lozano Alicia Li David September 14 2024 Bomb threats force second consecutive day of school closures in Springfield Ohio NBC News Archived from the original on September 13 2024 Retrieved September 14 2024 Kinnard Meg September 14 2024 Trump and Vance are still stoking fears of Haitian migrants as Ohio community facse bomb threats Associated Press Archived from the original on September 15 2024 Retrieved September 15 2024 Astor Maggie September 15 2024 Vance Sticks By Pet Eating Claims and Says He s Willing to Create Stories The New York Times Archived from the original on September 15 2024 Retrieved September 16 2024 Linton Caroline October 1 2024 Where is the VP debate being held See behind the scenes at the CBS Broadcast Center in NYC CBS News Retrieved October 29 2024 Bauder David September 27 2024 CBS News says it will be up to Vance and Walz to fact check each other in veep debate Associated Press News Archived from the original on September 28 2024 Retrieved September 29 2024 Seitz Wald Alex October 1 2024 JD Vance s mic gets cut while talking about Springfield at VP debate NBC News Retrieved October 8 2024 Gold Hadas October 2 2024 CBS cut mics and fact checked JD Vance in a more civil VP debate drawing the ire of Trump and his allies CNN Retrieved October 2 2024 Stelter Brian October 2 2024 43 million watched Walz Vance VP debate in significant drop from 2020 matchup CNN Retrieved October 2 2024 Multiple sources Schnell Mychael July 26 2024 Some House Republicans slam JD Vance as Trump s VP pick The worst choice The Hill Retrieved July 27 2024 Writer Aila Slisco July 25 2024 JD Vance is Really Bad Decision for Trump Ex Official Warns Newsweek Archived from the original on July 26 2024 Retrieved July 27 2024 Nelken Zitser Joshua Berman Taylor July 23 2024 Trump may Regret Choosing JD Vance as His Running Mate Political Scientists Say Business Insider Archived from the original on July 25 2024 Retrieved July 27 2024 Olmsted Edith July 25 2024 Republicans Really Wish Trump Hadn t Picked J D Vance The New Republic Archived from the original on July 26 2024 Retrieved July 27 2024 Bohannon Molly October 2 2024 Tim Walz JD Vance Polls Both Candidates Favorability Increases Post Debate Forbes Archived from the original on October 4 2024 Retrieved October 5 2024 JD Vance Favorability Polls FiveThirtyEight June 28 2018 Archived from the original on October 3 2024 Retrieved February 25 2025 Woods Ontaria January 20 2025 Watch JD Vance sworn in as vice president CNN Retrieved January 20 2025 Wang Orange January 20 2025 Han and Vance strike positive tone for US China ties ahead of Trump inauguration South China Morning Post Archived from the original on January 20 2025 Retrieved January 20 2025 Shkolnikova Svetlana July 16 2024 Vance credits service in Marine Corps for teaching him how to live like an adult Stars and Stripes Marco Rubio has been sworn in as America s Secretary of State NBC New York Associated Press January 21 2025 Retrieved January 22 2025 Cooper Helene Demirjian Karoun January 24 2025 Pete Hegseth Is Confirmed as Defense Secretary By Slim Margin The New York Times Savage Charlie Kim Minho February 9 2025 Vance Says Judges Aren t Allowed to Control Trump s Legitimate Power The New York Times Archived from the original on February 10 2025 Retrieved February 11 2025 JD Vance goes after European allies in Munich Security Conference speech DW News February 14 2025 2 09 minutes in Retrieved February 14 2025 via YouTube Gomez Henry March 1 2025 Vance leans hard into Trump s foreign policy and sparks an extraordinary Oval Office skirmish NBC News Retrieved March 1 2025 Licon Adriana March 1 2025 What they said Trump Zelenskyy and Vance s heated argument in the Oval Office Associated Press Retrieved March 1 2025 Liptak Kevin Zeleny Jeff March 1 2025 Inside the 139 minutes that upended the US Ukraine alliance CNN Retrieved March 1 2025 Benett Brian February 28 2025 After Heated Oval Office Exchange Trump Ends Pivotal Meeting With Zelensky Early Time Retrieved March 1 2025 Roth Andrew March 1 2025 How JD Vance emerged as the chief saboteur of the transatlantic alliance The Guardian Retrieved March 1 2025 Pinho Faith Wilner Michael February 28 2025 You don t have the cards Trump and Vance berate Zelensky in Oval Office blowup Los Angeles Times Archived from the original on February 28 2025 Retrieved March 1 2025 Cercone Jeff Sherman Amy Swann Sara February 28 2025 Trump Vance and Zelenskyy s tense Oval Office meeting about Ukraine and Russia fact checked Politifact Retrieved March 1 2025 Dress Brad September 24 2024 GOP takes aim at Zelensky for Pennsylvania visit Vance swipe The Hill Retrieved March 13 2025 van Zuylen Wood Simon January 4 2022 The Radicalization of J D Vance The Washington Post Archived from the original on January 4 2022 Retrieved August 11 2024 Orr James July 16 2024 JD Vance s nomination proves Trumpism is here to stay The Daily Telegraph ISSN 0307 1235 Archived from the original on July 18 2024 Retrieved July 17 2024 Goldman Samuel July 15 2021 Peter Thiel s implausible populists The Week Archived from the original on September 27 2021 Retrieved September 27 2021 Beauchamp Zack July 15 2024 What J D Vance really believes Vox Archived from the original on July 16 2024 Retrieved July 16 2024 Ward Ian June 8 2023 I Don t Want to Violently Overthrow the Government I Want Something Far More Revolutionary Politico Archived from the original on July 17 2024 Retrieved July 17 2024 Zorzi Graedon H July 16 2024 J D Vance and the Rise of Postliberalism The Wall Street Journal Archived from the original on July 17 2024 Retrieved July 17 2024 Haynes Gavin July 17 2024 JD Vance has some weird influences The Spectator Archived from the original on July 18 2024 Retrieved July 17 2024 Vance says he is plugged into a lot of weird right wing subcultures He draws from a whole new political lexicon one that would seem baffling to his more starched colleagues in the Congress Joyce Kathryn January 6 2022 The New Right s Grim Increasingly Popular Fantasies of an International Nationalism The New Republic ISSN 0028 6583 Archived from the original on April 26 2024 Retrieved July 17 2024 Breland Ali July 17 2024 Silicon Valley Got Their Guy The Atlantic Archived from the original on July 17 2024 Retrieved July 17 2024 On X he follows niche but popular anonymous posters such as Bronze Age Pervert Raw Egg Nationalist and Lomez Smith Michelle Swenson Ali July 31 2024 Vance praises a key leader behind Project 2025 a conservative effort Trump has disavowed Associated Press Archived from the original on July 31 2024 Retrieved July 31 2024 Meyer Josh August 9 2024 JD Vance endorsed a book calling far left unhumans and praising fascist dictators USA Today Archived from the original on August 15 2024 Retrieved August 15 2024 BeMiller Haley August 25 2022 Ohio Senate Race J D Vance Focuses on Conservative Family Issues The Cincinnati Enquirer Archived from the original on July 17 2024 Retrieved September 27 2022 He s against same sex marriage and said he would not support federal legislation to codify marriage equality Bendix Aria July 16 2024 Where JD Vance stands on abortion based on 6 of his statements NBC News Archived from the original on July 25 2024 Retrieved July 23 2024 Wagner John September 24 2021 Ohio Senate candidate J D Vance argues against need for rape and incest exceptions in abortion laws The Washington Post Archived from the original on July 5 2022 Retrieved May 3 2022 Jevin Katie July 15 2024 Everytown Moms Demand Action Respond to Trump Announcing Vance as his Pick for Vice President Moms Demand Action Archived from the original on July 18 2024 Retrieved July 17 2024 Hutchinson Bill August 16 2024 JD Vance and Tim Walz claim to be 2nd Amendment stalwarts But where do the VP picks really stand on guns ABC News Archived from the original on August 19 2024 Retrieved August 19 2024 Villeneuve Marina July 18 2024 Gun extremists have a dream ticket JD Vance brags about Mamaw s huge gun stash in RNC speech Salon Archived from the original on August 20 2024 Retrieved August 19 2024 Kaczynski Andrew Steck Em July 30 2024 It s not just cat ladies JD Vance has a history of disparaging people without kids CNN Archived from the original on July 30 2024 Retrieved July 31 2024 Rascouet Paz Anna July 19 2024 JD Vance Says Parents Should Have Bigger Say in Democracy Than Non Parents Here s the Context Snopes Archived from the original on July 24 2024 Retrieved July 25 2024 Jones Ja han July 25 2024 In his attacks on the childless left JD Vance once hyped a plan to give parents more votes MSNBC Archived from the original on August 23 2024 Retrieved August 20 2024 Trau Morgan July 28 2022 J D Vance denies supporting abusive marriages after viral comments WEWS Archived from the original on August 2 2022 Retrieved August 3 2022 Eaton Sabrina July 18 2023 JD Vance proposes federal ban on gender transition care for minors cleveland com Archived from the original on January 26 2024 Retrieved January 26 2024 Vance Israel should finish war as quickly as possible partner Sunni states against Iran The Times of Israel July 16 2024 Ott Haley July 16 2024 What JD Vance has said about U S foreign policy amid the war in Ukraine CBS News Archived from the original on July 17 2024 Retrieved July 17 2024 Stein Jeff July 15 2024 J D Vance pick unnerves GOP s business elite thrills populists The Washington Post ISSN 0190 8286 Archived from the original on July 16 2024 Retrieved July 16 2024 Arnsdorf Isaac Dawsey Josh LeVine Marianne July 16 2024 How Trump got to yes on Vance The Washington Post ISSN 0190 8286 Archived from the original on July 16 2024 Retrieved July 16 2024 Major Republican donors opposed Vance because they viewed his inclination toward economic populism as hostile to their model of small government free market conservatism Duran Gil July 22 2024 Where J D Vance Gets His Weird Terrifying Techno Authoritarian Ideas The New Republic ISSN 0028 6583 Archived from the original on August 17 2024 Retrieved August 17 2024 Vance J D June 2 2021 Fighting Woke Capital The American Mind Archived from the original on August 15 2024 Retrieved August 16 2024 Knott Katherine July 16 2024 Trump taps J D Vance sharp critic of higher ed for VP Inside Higher Ed Archived from the original on July 18 2024 Retrieved August 22 2024 Wilson Jason August 22 2024 Revealed JD Vance promoted far right views in speech about extremists book The Guardian Archived from the original on August 22 2024 Retrieved August 23 2024 Owen Paul July 16 2024 From anti Trump to vice president nominee JD Vance in his own words The Guardian Archived from the original on July 17 2024 Retrieved July 17 2024 Timmerding Isabella July 16 2024 JD Vance once coined Trump America s Hitler now he will serve as his second in command FOX 5 DC Archived from the original on August 7 2024 Retrieved August 7 2024 Ball Molly July 7 2021 Breakfast with J D Vance Anti Trump Author Turned Pro Trump Candidate Time Archived from the original on July 26 2024 Retrieved July 28 2024 Oshin Olafimihan July 6 2021 JD Vance says he regrets past criticism of Trump The Hill Archived from the original on June 28 2022 Retrieved July 5 2022 Schapitl Lexie Giles Ben Adams Destinee July 16 2024 Where J D Vance stands on key issues NPR Archived from the original on September 2 2024 Retrieved July 27 2024 Itkowitz Colby Reinhard Beth Morse Clara July 17 2024 In Vance Trump finds a kindred spirit on election denial and Jan 6 The Washington Post Archived from the original on July 17 2024 Retrieved July 28 2024 Kleppinger Ben May 22 2017 Hillbilly Elegy author J D Vance speaks at Centre graduation The Advocate Messenger Archived from the original on July 16 2024 Retrieved July 16 2024 Bernstein Joseph Rosman Katherine November 2022 From Yale to Newsmax Usha Vance Has Helped J D Vance Chart His Path The New York Times Archived from the original on July 15 2024 Retrieved July 15 2024 Bhatia Shireen July 16 2024 Ohio Senator JD Vance reveals Hindu wife s support for his Christian faith Christian Today Archived from the original on July 17 2024 Retrieved July 15 2024 Ward Ian March 15 2024 Is There Something More Radical than MAGA J D Vance Is Dreaming It Politico Archived from the original on March 18 2024 Retrieved March 18 2024 JD Vance and his wife discuss the potential of being picked for Trump s VP Fox amp Friends video Fox News June 26 2024 Archived from the original on July 16 2024 Retrieved July 15 2024 Meet JD Vance s Indian American Wife Usha Chilukuri India West Journal May 4 2022 Archived from the original on July 16 2024 Retrieved July 15 2024 Caruso Skyler July 15 2024 J D Vance s 3 Kids All About Ewan Vivek and Mirabel People Archived from the original on July 17 2024 Retrieved July 15 2024 Smyth Julie Carr July 15 2024 Who is JD Vance Things to know about Donald Trump s pick for vice president Associated Press Archived from the original on August 21 2024 Retrieved August 23 2024 Caruso Skyler January 19 2025 J D Vance s 3 Kids All About Ewan Vivek and Mirabel People com Dallas Kelsey September 9 2016 Author J D Vance Faith made me believe in a hopeful future The Washington Post Archived from the original on March 7 2023 Retrieved May 12 2021 Jenkins Jack Hertzler McCain Aleja July 16 2024 Five faith facts about Donald Trump s V P pick JD Vance The Salt Lake Tribune Archived from the original on September 17 2024 Retrieved September 5 2024 Dreher Rod August 11 2019 J D Vance Becomes Catholic The American Conservative Archived from the original on February 10 2021 Retrieved August 11 2019 Lampen Claire September 1 2024 July 30 2024 A Guide to J D Vance s Most Unhinged Public Statements The Cut The New Yorker Archived from the original on August 29 2024 Retrieved August 3 2024 2022 Official Election Results Ohio Secretary of State Archived from the original on November 10 2022 Retrieved July 19 2024 McCoy Robert July 24 2024 J D Vance in Serious Trouble After Damning Project 2025 Book Foreword The New Republic Archived from the original on July 25 2024 Retrieved July 24 2024 External linksWikimedia Commons has media related to JD Vance Wikiquote has quotations related to J D Vance Official website Campaign websiteBiography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Financial information federal office at the Federal Election Commission Legislation sponsored at the Library of Congress Profile at Vote Smart Appearances on C SPAN J D Vance at PolitiFactParty political officesPreceded byRob Portman Republican nominee for United States Senator from Ohio Class 3 2022 Most recentPreceded byMike Pence Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States 2024U S SenatePreceded byRob Portman United States Senator Class 3 from Ohio 2023 2025 Served alongside Sherrod Brown Bernie Moreno Succeeded byJon HustedPolitical officesPreceded byKamala Harris Vice President of the United States 2025 present IncumbentU S order of precedence ceremonial Preceded byDonald Trumpas President Second in order as Vice President Followed byRelevant state governorU S presidential line of successionFirst First in line as Vice President Succeeded byMike Johnsonas Speaker of the U S House of Representatives

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