- JD Vance is also a businessman and writer. Main photo: EFE
Former US President Donald Trump (2017-2021) chose on Monday, July 15, Ohio Senator JD Vance, a 39-year-old young man who, in addition to being a politician, is also a businessman and writer, as his vice presidential candidate.
After several weeks of uncertainty, Trump announced his choice on the Truth Social network during the first day of the Republican Convention. The convention began on July 15 in Milwaukee, in the key state of Wisconsin, where Trump’s candidacy for the White House is also being formalized.
The former Republican president said that following “long deliberation and reflection, and considering the tremendous talents of many others,” he has decided that Vance is “the most appropriate person to assume the role.”
During the campaign, he said, he will focus strongly on the people for whom he fought so brilliantly, the American workers and farmers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota and far beyond.”
As vice president, he added, he will “continue to fight” for the Constitution, support the troops and do everything he can to help “make America great once more.”
Trump gave details regarding his vice presidential candidate in Truth Social
Trump recalled on Truth Social that Vance served in the Marine Corps, graduated from Ohio State University in two years, With highest praiseand also at Yale Law School. There he was an editor of The Yale Law Journal and president of the Yale Law Veterans Association.
JD’s book Hillbilly Elegy “It became a huge best-seller” and a movie, said the former president, who added that “he has had a very successful business career in technology and finance.”
His name was on the shortlist of Florida Senator Marco Rubio, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum and Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin.
In the last few hours, even former US ambassador to the UN and former governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley, the latest to throw in the towel in the primary process once morest Trump, and even Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an independent presidential candidate, had begun to be named.
On July 15, it was leaked that both Rubio and Burgum had been notified that they would not be chosen, thus causing the spotlight to fall on Vance, whose announcement was greeted with applause at the convention as soon as it was made public.
Who is JD Vance
Trump recently described James David Vance (Ohio, 1984) as a “young Abraham Lincoln” who even “looks good in a beard.”
The detail, although it may seem trivial, says a lot in this case regarding the respect that Trump, of whom it is The voice of the people who hates facial hair, now professes to be a budding figure within the party. He is a person who went from living through a real personal drama and serving as a marine in the Iraq war to becoming a best-selling author.
Long before becoming a senator for Ohio, JD, as he is popularly known, suffered a childhood exposed to violence, guns and drug use in Middletown. This is his hometown in that state neighboring Pennsylvania, where former President Donald Trump Trump was shot in his right ear on July 13.
Their grim reality was that of many white families in US manufacturing cities, which were in decline in the 1990s.
His parents’ constant bickering led to a divorce, following which JD would begin to use his mother’s surname Vance instead of his father’s Bowman; and his upbringing would fall under the care of his fierce grandmother, whom he called “Mamaw,” whose teachings shaped the person and politician he is today.
In his small town in the Appalachians, little JD Vance learned that you don’t choose your family, but you have to love it anyway, that Christianity was his salvation, and that if he ever failed, there would always be the 19 pistols that “Mamaw” kept at home.
This heritage of traditional values, and the desire for a change of scenery, motivated him to enlist in the US Marine Corps and serve in the Iraq War (2003).
In 2005 his grandmother passed away and JD understood that his military career was over and he had to focus on his studies in Political Science and Philosophy at Ohio State University, which he completed with a grade of how praiseto make the jump to Yale Law School.
His path as a writer
Echoes of that “white trash” childhood – a derogatory term used in the country to refer to lower-class and dysfunctional families – resonated once once more in JD’s head a decade later, choosing to put aside his buoyant jobs among California law firms and technology companies to write his memoirs.
They were titled Hillbilly Elegy (Hillbilly: A Rural Elegyin Spanish), were published in 2016 by HarperCollins and from the beginning they were a boom in the publishing industry.
Media such as The New York Times o to CNNwhere he would soon become a political commentator, consecrated the virtues of a work with such an impact that it snuck into the presidential battle between Trump himself and the Democrat Hillary Clinton, and in 2020 it would arrive as a film on Netflix.
“I can’t stand Trump. I’m afraid he’s taking the white working class into a very dark place,” Vance said in an interview with NPR in 2016.
Until then, JD had shown a more moderate and socially-minded profile, even founding a non-governmental organization (NGO) to protect children who are victims of difficult environments like his own, but in recent years he has been shifting towards a conservatism more in line with the MAGA (Make America Great Again) core.
“My uncle just asked me if I was glad I won. If I hadn’t, it would have been another terrible homecoming. In the Vance family, we always pay attention to the important things,” said JD, laughing, upon winning the seat of senator for Ohio in 2022.
Once in office, he publicly apologized to Trump for his 2016 statements, calling them “a mistake.”
He has recently strongly defended Israeli attacks on Gaza and harshly criticized the Biden administration for its economic management.
A father of three children and married to a woman of Appalachian Indian descent, Vance now faces another major challenge in his life, subject to the unpredictable Trump and his way of working as a team.
With information from EFE.
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2024-07-16 12:58:42
