His mother, Beverly Vance, was in Trump’s VIP box, sitting alongside House Speaker Mike Johnson. “My movement is about single moms like mine who struggled with money and addiction but never gave up,” Vance began. “I’m proud to say that tonight, my mom is here ten years clean and...
In his speech Vance described his grandmother, "Mamaw," who raised him while his mother struggled with addiction, and acknowledged his mother Beverly, who was on hand to watch him speak. "I am proud to say that tonight my mom is here, 10 years clean and...
“Nothing has gotten better” since the shattering summer of 2014, says Brown’s mother, Lezley McSpadden-Head, as she and Gwen Carr push for police reform while keeping the memories of their sons alive. By Rita Omokha Style JD Vance’s Name Change Is Just One More of His Battles Aga...
Vance was raised by his grandparents in Middletown, in southwestern Ohio, while his mother, whom he introduced during his speech Wednesday, battled an addiction he said she put behind her 10 years ago. He spent a significant amount of time traveling to Kentucky with his grandparents to vi...
J. Smith-Cameron. Actress: Margaret. Actress J. Smith-Cameron was born Jean Isabel Smith in Louisville, Kentucky, and raised in Greenville, South Carolina, the daughter of an architect. She was known simply as J. Smith by her fellow students at Florida S
Vance, to grow up in the Rust Belt, a place where jobs slowly started to disappear, women often raised their children on their own, and opioids took over thousands of lives. Vance himself grew up with a mother who cycled through a series of romantic partners and eventually became addicted ...
J.D. Vance, who just hours before Trump had announced would be his running mate. Then, he stood in the convention center and took in the scene as Lee Greenwood sang “God Bless the USA.” Some people could be seen clamoring to get a photo. Others broke out into chants of...
Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance claimed that his past remarks on the country being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies” was merely a “sarcastic comment” in a face-saving interview with journalist and television personality Megyn Kelly that aired Friday. In a 2021 ...
J.D. Vance won the Republican primary in Ohio’s Senate race Tuesday — and all it took was sacrificing whatever integrity he had at the altar of a man he once suggested was “America’s Hitler.” During the onset of Donald Trump’s political ascendence, Vance presented himself as a kind...
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