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| − | |birth_name=James Donald Bowman
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| − | |description=[[Vance]]: “He’s weird as hell,” says [[Tim Walz]]<ref>''[https://www.thedailybeast.com/democratic-vp-pick-tim-walz-to-jd-vance-youre-weird-as-hell "Tim Walz Brings Down the House With Roast of ‘Weird’ GOP Ticket"]''</ref>
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| − | '''James David "JD" Vance''' is an [[American]] politician, author, and Marine veteran who was elected junior [[United States Senator]] from [[Ohio]] in 2023.<ref>''[https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-republicans-vice-president-vance-name-359c3d1361c94f5d2d1e9798b7854477 "What’s in a name? Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance has had many of them"]''</ref> A member of the [[Republican Party]], JD Vance is its nominee for Vice President in the [[2024 United States presidential election]].<ref>''[https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/jd-vance-has-some-weird-influences/ "JD Vance has some weird influences"]''</ref>
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| − | ==Background==
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| − | After graduating from Middletown High School, Vance joined the [[US Marine Corps]], where he became a corporal and served from 2003 to 2007 as a combat correspondent, with six months in [[Iraq]]. He attended [[Ohio State University]] afterward, graduating in 2009, then graduated in 2013 from [[Yale Law School]], where he was an editor of ''The Yale Law Journal''. In 2016, Vance published his bestselling memoir "Hillbilly Elegy", which received considerable press attention during that year's election and was adapted into a feature film in 2020.
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| − | ==Entrepreneur==
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| − | JD Vance worked as principal at [[Peter Thiel]]'s firm, Mithril Capital, between 2016 and 2017.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20210506175430/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-20/peter-thiel-s-mithril-capital-raises-850-million-vc-fund</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20240325024811/https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-vance-venture-capital-opioid-nonprofit-tech-record-ohio-senate-2021-8</ref>
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| − | In 2019, Vance co-founded Narya Capital in [[Cincinnati]] with financial backing from [[Thiel]], [[Eric Schmidt]], and [[Marc Andreessen]].<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20201213021024/https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/inno/stories/inno-insights/2020/02/16/jd-vance-s-new-cincinnati-based-vc-firm-excites.html</ref> With Thiel and former Trump adviser [[Darren Blanton]], Vance has invested in the online video platform [[Rumble]].<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220207182452/https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-j-d-vance-invest-in-rumble-video-platform-popular-on-political-right-11621447661</ref>
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| − | ==Author==
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| − | His 2016 bestselling memoir [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillbilly_Elegy "Hillbilly Elegy"] received significant press attention during the [[2016 US election]]. In 2020, it was adapted into a [https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81071970 Netflix film starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close.]<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/movies/hillbilly-elegy-jd-vance.html</ref>
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| − | ==Political career==
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| − | JD Vance received a record-breaking amount of money from [[deep state]] actor [[Peter Thiel]] to win the seat as Senator from Ohio. [[Thiel]] had already donated to support Vance in the Ohio Republican Senate primary, in total investing $15 million to bolster Vance — the largest amount ever given to boost a single Senate candidate.<ref>https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/03/jd-vance-win-ohio-primary-00029881</ref>
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| − | JD Vance won the 2022 [[United States Senate]] election in [[Ohio]], defeating [[Democratic]] nominee Tim Ryan. Initially opposed to [[Donald Trump]]'s candidacy in the [[2016 United States presidential election]], Vance has become a strong [[Trump]] supporter since Trump's presidency.
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| − | In July 2024, [[Donald Trump]] selected JD Vance as his running mate before the [[Republican]] National Convention. He is the first Marine veteran to be nominated for Vice President.
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| − | ==Political positions==
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| − | With a political presentation as a "[[social conservative]]", JD Vance seems in reality to be a front man for [[Peter Thiel]] and the [[Paypal Mafia]].
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| − | ===Support for Israel===
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| − | JD Vance is a strong supporter of [[US]] support for [[Israel]] amid the [[2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War|Israel–Hamas war]].<ref>https://thehill.com/policy/international/4773538-jd-vance-foreign-policy/</ref>
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| − | ===Childless cat ladies===
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| − | Speaking in 2021 to the then [[Fox News]] host [[Tucker Carlson]], [[Vance]] called senior [[Democrats]] in the [[US Congress]] and the [[Biden administration]]{{QB|
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| − | :“a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too.
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| − | :“It’s just a basic fact – you look at [[Kamala Harris]], [transportation secretary] [[Pete Buttigieg]], [[AOC]] (congresswoman [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]]) – the entire future of the [[Democrats]] is controlled by people without children. And how does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?”<ref>''[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/06/jd-vance-childless-cat-ladies-tim-walz "JD Vance pleads sarcasm in latest effort to clean up ‘childless cat ladies’ remark"]''</ref>}}
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