Newsman: Former President Donald Trump has picked Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate, his successor alongside him on the Republican 2024 ticket. Previously known as openly Trump’s critics A 39-year-old first-term senator J.D. Vance‘s role for roughly year and a half tenure in the Senate emerged him as a dependable ideological ally of the former president.
Trump announced Vance would be his running mate on Monday, writing on Truth Social that the Ohio Republican is “the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States.”
“As Vice President, J.D. will continue to fight for our Constitution, stand with our Troops, and will do everything he can to help me MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
The Trump campaign without delay promoted the former president’s pick, posting an ad on social media featuring a montage of Vance praising Trump.ad More
“I am proud that I have been an ally of Donald Trump’s in Washington, D.C.,” Vance says in one of the clips in the ad.
JD Vance, a Yale graduate and corporate lawyer, worked in the tech industry as a venture capitalist. Vance was also a Marine and deployed to Iraq.
His wrote a book about the white working class people in Middle America made him renowned. He became a best seller author for his famous book ‘ Hillbilly Elegy’ which later became a film too.
Trump’s young ideological ally Vance was born in Middleton, Ohio, and served in the Marine Corps. He later attended Ohio State University and eventually graduated from Yale Law School.
Vance entered the race for the open Ohio Senate seat, which became one of the most competitive GOP primaries of the 2022 election cycle. Trump endorsed Vance for the job, which helped him win both the primary election and general election against Ohio Democrat Tim Ryan.
In 2024, Vance has been a reliable surrogate for Trump — appearing at campaign events, defending him in television appearances and helping the former president raise money for his campaign.
President Joe Biden’s campaign released a statement on Vance being named Trump’s vice presidential pick, slamming Vance as someone who will further Trump’s “extreme MAGA agenda.”
“Donald Trump picked J.D. Vance as his running mate because Vance will do what Mike Pence wouldn’t on January 6: bend over backwards to enable Trump and his extreme MAGA agenda, even if it means breaking the law and no matter the harm to the American people,” Biden Campaign Chair Jen O’Malley Dillon wrote in a statement.
