When JD was a young child, his mother and father divorced. Beverly remarried a man named Bob Hamel, and Bowman stopped claiming JD as his son. “Dad gave me up for adoption when I was 6. After the adoption, he became kind of a phantom for the next six years,” Vance wrote.“I ha...
Comments Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance made in 2021 questioning Vice President Kamala Harris’s leadership because she did not have biological children have resurfaced.
Over the course of his 39 years, Vance’s first, middle and last names have all been altered in one way or another.
Vance had a chaotic childhood raised mainly by his grandparents in southwestern Ohio and a mother who battled substance abuse, and her “revolving door of father figures” as he described in his book. He is now married to a trial lawyer he met at Yale Law ...
“I know the media wants to attack me and wants me to back down on this, Megyn, but the simple point that I made is that having children, becoming a father, becoming a mother, I really do think it changes your perspective in a pretty profound way,” Vance told Kelly. Share This is...
Swisher also isn’t a fan of his restrictive views on abortion, which heopposesin the cases or rape and incest but advocates for exceptions in cases when the mother’s life is endangered. Vance’s position on LGBTQ+ rights also “wasn’t good” for Swisher as a gay woma...
Harris, who is the Democratic Party’s de facto nominee, is a stepmother to her husband Douglas Emhoff’s two children, who refer to her as “Momala.” At the time Vance made his remarks Buttigieg was in the process of adopting twin babies with his partner. ...
Vance’s path from the Marines (where he ended up in media and communications) to Yale, where Amy Chua of Tiger Mother fame mentored him, to venture capital, could have led to a future where the neighbours in Washington were thrilled to have him. He did not choose that...
Vance was a “never Trump” Republican in 2016. He called Trump “dangerous” and “unfit” for office. Vance, whose wife, lawyer Usha Chilukuri Vance, is Indian American and the mother of their three children, also criticized Trump’s racist rhetoric, saying he could be “America’s Hitl...
Vance painted politicians in Washington as the “ruling class” and reflected on how addiction had devastated the community he grew up in. At one point he introduced his mother, who was 10 years into her own recovery. The senator then capped the timeline off by turning his speech back to...