Former US President Donald Trump has announced JD Vance, a senator from Ohio, as his running mate in the upcoming presidential election. This comes just two days after an assassination attempt against him at a rally in Pennsylvania during the weekend.
Trump highlighted in his Truth Social post that the decision was made after lengthy deliberation. He said the best person suited for the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator JD Vance of the State of Ohio. Trump, 78, lauded Vance’s education credentials and business experience. The Republicans officially nominated Trump and Vance at the start of the Republican Party’s four-day national convention in Milwaukee.
Mike DeWine, Ohio Governor, said Vance is consistent with Trump’s appeal to working men and women. He believes it was quite wise of the former president to pick someone younger as the vice-president candidate. The lawmaker pointed out that Vance also shares Trump’s desire to expand the base of the Republican party.
Trump’s call for a running mate was anticipated and closely watched by Republican supporters and Americans across the world. During his presidency from 2017 to 2021, Mike Pence was the vice president. This time around, if Trump wins, Vance will be the vice president.
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Interesting Facts About JD Vance
Vance emerged as one of Trump’s fiercest defenders. He had once publicly called the former US president an ‘idiot’ and claimed he was ‘reprehensible’. Vance, 39, had also compared Trump to the notorious Adolf Hitler. Moreover, during the 2016 election he was a key voice in the ‘Never Trump’ movement.
Anything is possible in politics, and now he has warmed up as running mate. Vance is a venture capitalist and author of Hillbilly Elegy, the best-selling memoir. He was elected to the Senate in 2022. Vance was one of the several Republican lawmakers standing staunchly by Trump’s side at a New York courthouse during the criminal hush money trial.
If the Republicans win, Vance would be the first former Marine to be vice-president of the United School, and worked at a corporate law firm, and took up the post of a principal at Peter Thiel’s investment firm in San Francisco. The Ohio senator served in the Marine Corps for four years, and was deployed in Iraq for six months.
Vance met his wife Usha Chilukuri at Yale Law School and married in 2014. They have three children – Ewan, 6, Vivek, 4, and Mirabel, 2.
