Trump critic-turned-ally JD Vance elected vice president, offering glimpse at GOP’s potential future
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Just two years after winning his first run for political office, Ohio Sen. JD Vance is set to become vice president — ushering a new generation into power and offering a potential glimpse at the Republican Party’s future after President-elect Donald Trump’s second term ends.
Just two years after winning his first run for political office, Ohio Sen. JD Vance is set to become vice president — ushering a new generation into power and offering a potential glimpse at the Republican Party’s future after President-elect Donald Trump’s second term ends. Vance, 40, was the first millennial on a major party’s presidential ticket and will become the third-youngest vice president in American history. He is also a former Trump critic whose political evolution, culminating in him becoming the president-elect’s running mate, showcases how Trump has taken over the GOP and reshaped it in his own image. Raised by his grandparents in southeastern Ohio as his mother battled drug addiction, Vance joined the Marine Corps after high school, and later went on to attend Ohio State University and Yale Law School — where he met his wife, Usha Vance — and become a venture capitalist. His 2016 memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” shot Vance to stardom in a nation seeking to understand the Rust Belt appeal of Trump, who first won the presidency that same year. At the time, as he emerged as a political commentator, Vance was a strident Trump critic. In private messages, Vance wondered ahead of Trump’s first election whether he was “America’s Hitler” and in 2017 said the then-president was a “moral disaster.” In public, he agreed Trump was a “total fraud” who didn’t care about regular people and called him “reprehensible.”
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