Donald Trump announced Monday afternoon that he had chosen Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate, culminating a week of speculation after the former president had also named Sen. Marco Rubio and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum as possible contenders. Trump and Vance will become the official Republican candidates at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this week.
Vance, 39, was first elected to the Senate, defeating former Democratic congressman Tim Ryan for an open Ohio seat in 2022. Before entering politics, he was known as the author of a best-selling 2016 memoir. Hillbilly ElegyYeahThe film, directed by Vance, is based on the Netflix story of a boy who grows up in a broken family in Appalachia and overcomes adversity to attend college and law school.
If Trump wins in November, Vance will become the second-youngest vice president in history, tied with Richard Nixon (he turns 40 in August).
“After lengthy deliberation and consideration, and after taking into account many other extraordinary talents, I have determined that the person best qualified to serve as Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio,” Trump wrote. The truth of society.
“J.D. served his country honorably in the Marine Corps, graduated summa cum laude from Ohio State University in his second year, and graduated from Yale Law School, where he served as editor of the Yale Law Journal and president of the Yale Law Veterans Association. J.D.’s book is Hillbilly Elegya defense of our nation’s hardworking men and women, became a huge bestseller and was even made into a movie.
“JD has had a very successful business career in technology and finance, and now during this campaign he will be focused on the people he fought so well for – American workers and farmers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota and beyond,” Trump added.
“As Vice President, JD will continue to fight for the Constitution, stand with our troops, and do everything in our power to Make America Great Again. Congratulations to Senator JD Vance, his wife Usha, also a Yale Law School graduate, and their three beautiful children. MAGA2024!”
Vance was once an outspoken critic of Trump, but said the former president’s actions had changed his mind.
His background as a boy growing up in poverty in Appalachia will likely be a big part of his campaign speech.
In 2020, he told Crosswalk: Hillbilly Elegy So that society can better understand people who grow up in poverty.
“I really wanted to give people kind of an insider’s story,” he said. “I thought if people understood these issues not as academic abstractions but as real issues that real people are facing, they might have more empathy and understanding and think about them a little bit differently.”
In 2020, he said his story had a good ending.
“My mother doesn’t drink. I have a great relationship with my children, my grandchildren. Everybody’s doing well,” he said. “I think that’s the most important thing to me. It’s not one tragedy after another. … At least for us.” [it is a] It’s a tragedy that has led us in a more hopeful, more positive direction.”
He said the novel and film also promote forgiveness.
“You have to try to forgive those you think may have hurt you. You have to try to understand and empathize with them,” Vance says. “If you don’t, you’re just going to be an angry kid. You may achieve some success, but you’re never going to be a whole, fulfilled, happy person unless you value your family.”“
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Michael Faust He has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years, and his work has appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, Christian Post, Leaf Chronicle, Toronto Star and Knoxville News Sentinel.
