He served in Iraq for years.. Get to know Trump’s candidate for the position of US Vice President
He served in Iraq for years.. Get to know Trump’s candidate for the position of US Vice President
2024-07-16
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has selected Congressman J.D. Vance as his running mate at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Trump has chosen Vance to join him in his campaign for the November presidential election.
Who is JD Vance?
Vance, an Ohio senator, was born in 1984 in Middletown, Connecticut.
He graduated from Middletown High School in 2003 and earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and philosophy from The Ohio State University in 2009.
He received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 2013.
He served in the US Marine Corps from 2003 to 2007, and served in military operations in Iraq.
He was elected to the Senate in 2022 for a term ending January 3, 2029, and has become one of the former president’s strongest advocates for his “Make America Great Again” agenda, particularly on trade, foreign policy, and immigration.
His relationship with Donald Trump
During the 2016 US presidential election, Vance was an outspoken critic of Republican candidate Donald Trump, in a November 2016 column in an American newspaper.
“Trump’s actual policy proposals, such as they are, range from the immoral to the ridiculous,” he wrote in the article, and in media interviews Vance has described Trump as “cultural heroin” and “opium for the masses.”
In October 2016, Vance called Trump “hateful” in a Twitter post, and described himself as a “perpetually anti-Trump person.” In a private Facebook message, he called Trump “America’s Hitler.”
By November 2018, Vance had begun to change his mind, saying that Trump “is one of the few political leaders in America who understands the frustration that exists in large parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania,” and eastern Kentucky.
Vance thus supported Trump in 2020 and in July 2021, apologizing for calling Trump “hateful” and deleting posts from 2016 in which he was critical of Trump on Twitter.
Vance said he “now believes Trump was a good president,” and expressed regret for criticizing him during the 2016 election.
In October 2021, Vance reiterated Trump’s claims of election fraud, saying that “Trump lost the 2020 presidential election due to widespread fraud,” and on April 15, Trump endorsed Vance for the U.S. Senate.
In response to historian Robert Kagan, who wrote a November 2023 Washington Post op-ed titled “Trump’s Dictatorship Is Increasingly Inevitable. We Must Stop Pretending,” Vance wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland proposing that Kagan be prosecuted for promoting “open rebellion” by Democratic-controlled states.
Kagan said his article was not calling for rebellion and commented, “It is telling that their first instinct when attacked by a journalist is to suggest that they should be locked up.”
On June 30, Vance said, “I think the president has broad pardon authority… but more importantly, I think the president has immunity.”
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