[ I am partly responsible for JD Vance’s rise to be Donald Trump’s running mate. SorryOpens in new window ] But his influences also include Peter Thiel, the conservative libertarian tech billionaire, whose earlier investments include PayPal and Facebook. Terrifyingly, Thiel is...
Vance and the rest of the Trump team have been trying to downplay the importance of abortion during this campaign. The VP candidate told Ingraham, “I think Donald Trump is actually trying to identify the reasonable compromise where he lets California figure out its abortion policy, Alabama and...
Vance achieved literary recognization with the publication of his 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy.” The book, which reflects on the circumstances of Vance’s family and the community in which he grew up, sparked discussions about the complexities of poverty in Appalachia and Rust Belt communities. R...
A central message of Vance's 2016 book, detailing his personal story against the backdrop of the struggles of Appalachia and Rust Belt America, is that Americans experiencing economic hardship can improve their lives only by their own willpower. Since then, he's had a diverse trackrecord on ...
Claiming the Vance name also served to tie JD more clearly to what he writes was “hillbilly royalty” on his grandfather’s side not long before he would release a book opining on hillbilly culture. A distant cousin to his Papaw, also named James Vance, married into the McCoy-hating...
That isn’t the case for his running mate, JD Vance: the Republican candidate for vice-president is unequivocal in his statements that university professors are “the enemy”. For him, universities have become the “gatekeepers” of decent employment, rent-seekers who soak people for four-year...
CBS News Chicago Political Analysts Leslie Hairston and Pat Brady join Jim Williams and Irika Sargent with a breakdown of what they’re looking for from Gov. Tim Walz and U.S. Sen. JD Vance at the vice-presidential debate Tuesday night.
Former President Trump's selection ofSen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, as his running mate and vice presidential nominee, has brought Vance's policy views into the spotlight, given his relatively recent entry into electoral politics. Vance has served in the U.S. Senate for about a year and a...
Elon Musk was so outraged by the media's treatment of the Hunter Biden laptop story that he bought Twitter. But now he's censoring the hacked JD Vance dossier.
Vice presidential nominee JD Vance speaks during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 17. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) To the editor:Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said his grandparents stayed “together until the end, till deat...