JD Vance
 JD Vance    (politician, author) | |
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| Born | James Donald Bowman 2 August 1984 |
| Alma mater | Ohio State University, Yale Law School |
James David "JD" Vance is an American politician, author, and Marine veteran who was elected junior United States Senator from Ohio in 2023.[2] A member of the Republican Party, JD Vance is its nominee for Vice President in the 2024 United States presidential election.[3]
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Background
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.
Entrepreneur
JD Vance worked as principal at Peter Thiel's firm, Mithril Capital, between 2016 and 2017.[4][5]
In 2019, Vance co-founded Narya Capital in Cincinnati with financial backing from Thiel, Eric Schmidt, and Marc Andreessen.[6] With Thiel and former Trump adviser Darren Blanton, Vance has invested in the online video platform Rumble.[7]
Author
| JD Vance, Best-Selling Author Opens Up About His Painful Childhood And The Future Ahead - 2017 NBC News interview |
His 2016 bestselling memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" received significant press attention during the 2016 US election. In 2020, it was adapted into a Netflix film starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close.[8]
Political career
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.[9]
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.
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.
Political positions
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.
Support for Israel
JD Vance is a strong supporter of US support for Israel amid the Israel–Hamas war.[10]
Childless cat ladies
Speaking in 2021 to the then Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Vance called senior Democrats in the US Congress and the Biden administration
- “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.
- “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?”[11]
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:JD Vance has some weird influences | Article | 17 July 2024 | Gavin Haynes | "I think Trump is going to run again in 2024", JD Vance once said. "I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people." |
References
- ↑ "Tim Walz Brings Down the House With Roast of ‘Weird’ GOP Ticket"
- ↑ "What’s in a name? Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance has had many of them"
- ↑ "JD Vance has some weird influences"
- ↑ 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
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20240325024811/https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-vance-venture-capital-opioid-nonprofit-tech-record-ohio-senate-2021-8
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/movies/hillbilly-elegy-jd-vance.html
- ↑ https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/03/jd-vance-win-ohio-primary-00029881
- ↑ https://thehill.com/policy/international/4773538-jd-vance-foreign-policy/
- ↑ "JD Vance pleads sarcasm in latest effort to clean up ‘childless cat ladies’ remark"
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