Two days after being the target of a failed assassination attempt, Republican Presidential Candidate 2024 Donald Trump announced his selection of the 1984-born Senator from Ohio as his Vice in the 2024 Presidential race.
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J.D. Vance was in the Marine Corps, graduated from Ohio State University in two years, Summa Cum Laude, and is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he was Editor of the Yale Law Journal and President of the Yale Law Veterans Association.
Vance is also the author of the 2016 bestseller “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” focusing on his family's Appalachian values in Kentucky as well as the socioeconomic and social problems of his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, where Vance's maternal grandparents moved to live since they were young. The book was adapted into a movie of the same name in 2020.
J.D. has achieved a successful business career in Technology and Finance, primarily as an investor and fundraiser.
To date, Vance has only been involved in politics for 3 years. In July 2021, he officially joined the race to win the Senate seat representing Ohio; this was his first campaign for public office. In May 2022, he won the Republican primary with 32% of the vote, defeating other candidates Josh Mandel (23%) and Matt Dolan (22%). In the general election on November 8, Vance defeated Democratic candidate Tim Ryan with 53% of the vote.
Mr. Trump's companion in the last two election campaigns and his Vice 2017-2021 is Mike Pence. However, the relationship between the two broke down after Mr. Trump failed in his re-election bid in 2020.
Despite Trump's push to overturn the election results and the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, Pence as Speaker of the Senate presided over the certification of Biden – Harris as winner of the election.
Pence has since distanced himself from Trump, endorsing candidates in the primaries opposite to those supported by Trump and criticizing Trump's behavior on the day of the attack. In June 2023, he launched a bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, but withdrew in late October. He chose not to support Trump in the general election.
