Former President Donald Trump has selected Ohio Senator J D Vance as his running mate
Former President Donald Trump has chosen Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate.
“After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J. D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform.
Trump’s selection came on the first day of the Republican National Convention and just two days after he survived an assassination attempt at his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, over the weekend. On the floor of the convention, shortly after news of Vance’s selection broke, delegates celebrating the party’s ticket were writing Vance’s name onto Trump signs using markers.
During the early stages of Trump’s political career, Vance cast him as “a total fraud,” “a moral disaster,” and “America’s Hitler.”
He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2022 and sworn into office on January 3rd, 2023
J.D. was born and raised in Middletown, Ohio, a once flourishing American manufacturing town where Ohioans could live content, middle-class lives on single incomes.
Over time, many of those good jobs disappeared, and J.D.’s family suffered the effects along with many others.