“Hillbilly Elegy” also introduced Vance to the Trump family. Donald Trump Jr. loved the book and knew of Vance when he went to launch his political career. The two hit it off and have remained friends. He was first elected to public office in 2022 After Donald Trump won the 2016 elect...
In June 2016, Vance published the autobiographical memoir Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. The book details his turbulent upbringing, as well as what Vance considers the declining social and economic conditions of the Appalachian region. “I didn’t write this book ...
“I wish her stepchildren and Kamala Harris and her whole family the very best,” Vance told Kelly. “The point is not that she’s lesser. The point is that her party has pursued a set of policies that are profoundly anti-child.” Still, the clipped remarks have served as another dist...
Sen. JD Vance, the running mate of former PresidentDonald Trump, on Friday defended his comments accusing key Democrats — including Vice PresidentKamala Harris— of being miserable “childless cat ladies” who want to “make the rest of the country miserable too,” as well as anti-family and...
Vance said his wife was "obviously not a white person" and said they had been attacked by white supremacists as a result. We therefore rate this claim as a "Correct Attribution" but in need of some context.The exchange took place as part of a discussion on Vance's "childless cat lady"...
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‘Where does someone even get an idea like that? I blame those filthy IKEA instructions,” Colbert quipped. Colbert structured the series of gags at Vance’s expense as a salute to the Associated Press, which published a fact-check article, headlined, “No, J.D. Vance did not have se...
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Vance’s wife, Usha, is another one of the key people around him. It is one of life’s little ironies that like Kamala Harris, her family originally came from south Asia and she is also a lawyer, working until recently for a Los Angeles firm where Harris would probably...
“There’s no question the discussion around family life, childbearing and pro-natalism has gotten a lot more popular and gotten media attention because of JD Vance,” said Brad Wilcox, the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia a...