J.D. VanceJD Vance – OH

Current Position: US Senator since 2023
Affiliation: Republican
Former Positions: Venture Capital since 2017; Author, Hillbilly Elegy

After working at a corporate law firm, Vance moved to San Francisco to work in the tech industry. He served as a principal at Peter Thiel’s venture capital firm, Mithril Capital.

n 2016, Harper published Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. It was on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2016 and 2017. In 2017, Vance joined Revolution LLC, an investment firm founded by AOL cofounder Steve Case, as an investment partner, where he was tasked with expanding the “Rise of the Rest” initiative, which focuses on growing investments in under-served regions outside the Silicon Valley and New York City tech bubbles.

In 2019, Vance co-founded Narya Capital in Cincinnati, with financial backing from Thiel, Eric Schmidt, and Marc Andreessen. In 2020, he raised $93 million for the firm.

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Current Position: US Senator since 2023
Affiliation: Republican
Former Positions: Venture Capital since 2017; Author, Hillbilly Elegy

After working at a corporate law firm, Vance moved to San Francisco to work in the tech industry. He served as a principal at Peter Thiel’s venture capital firm, Mithril Capital.

n 2016, Harper published Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. It was on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2016 and 2017. In 2017, Vance joined Revolution LLC, an investment firm founded by AOL cofounder Steve Case, as an investment partner, where he was tasked with expanding the “Rise of the Rest” initiative, which focuses on growing investments in under-served regions outside the Silicon Valley and New York City tech bubbles.

In 2019, Vance co-founded Narya Capital in Cincinnati, with financial backing from Thiel, Eric Schmidt, and Marc Andreessen. In 2020, he raised $93 million for the firm.

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J.D. Vance 1JD  was born and raised in Middletown, Ohio, a once flourishing American manufacturing town where Ohioans could live content, middle-class lives on single incomes. Over time, many of those good jobs disappeared, and JD’s family suffered the effects along with many others.

Turbulence was common at home and at school. His grandmother, called Mamaw, was his saving grace. Her tough love and discipline kept him on the straight and narrow. A “blue dog” Democrat, she owned 19 handguns and nurtured a deep Christian faith in herself and her family. She died in 2005, shortly after JD enlisted in the United States Marine Corps.

JD went on to serve our nation in the Iraq War, then graduated from The Ohio State University and Yale Law School. He wrote a bestselling book, Hillbilly Elegy, which was turned into a Netflix movie. He also started a business dedicated to growing jobs and opportunity in the American heartland.

JD believes Ohioans deserve better. And he aims to fight for it in the U.S. Senate

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Full Name: JD ‘J.D.’ Vance

Gender: Male

Family: Grandmother; Mamaw

Birth Place: Middletown, OH

Home City: Cincinnati, OH

Religion: Christian

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Education

JD, Yale Law School, 2010-2013

BA, Political Science/Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2007-2009

Political Experience

Senator, United State Senate, 2023-present

Candidate, United States Senate, Ohio, 2022

Professional Experience

Co-Founder/Partner, Narya, 2019-present

Author, HarperCollins Publishers, 2013-present

Former Research Assistant, Professor George Priest, Yale Law School

Served, United States Marine Corps, 2003-2007

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Toledo, OH, 43604
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300 North Main Street, Suite 200
Middletown, OH 45042
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American Decline Was a Choice
My hometown of Middletown, Ohio is full of great people, and it has one of the highest citizenship rates in the country—nearly every person who lives there is a US citizen. Yet it has a poverty rate 15 percent higher than the national average. In many of our biggest cities, even right here in Ohio, drive around and you’ll see homeless encampments and trash strewn everywhere. Crime has skyrocketed, and even many successful families find it harder to get ahead. Every day, we read about a new assault on our country: from the Chinese who are stealing from American industry, or from our own “leaders” who teach our kids to hate their own country. Why is this happening? For a simple reason: our leaders have failed.

They chose to flood our country with criminals and drugs. They chose to take a knee as radicals ransacked our cities and made our communities less safe. They chose to make a quick buck by selling our industrial base to China. They chose censorship over the First Amendment.

Our parents and grandparents gave us the most prosperous nation in the world, and our leaders have chosen decline and plunder. But under our Constitution, We the People have the power, and it’s time we used it to fight back.

 

Democracy & Governance

Election Integrity
You have to hand it to the Democrats: give Republicans power, and we try to pass a new law; give Democrats power, and they try to legalize electioneering and ballot harvesting. It’s time to end the COVID-era changes to our elections–we need to go back to having an election day in this country, not an election season, and we need other common sense measures too: Voter ID, signature verification on absentee ballots, and an end to mass mail-in voting.

Economy & Jobs

Restore America’s Manufacturing Base
Our country used to value working class jobs, and then the manufacturing base of our economy was shipped overseas. Working class Ohioans were left in the dust. Job loss devastated families. Communities were forgotten. I’ll fight against the corporate elites who want to continue the status quo that plunders the millions who are unable to use their hands to earn a decent wage.

Over the last four years, President Trump scrapped terrible trade deals and renegotiated them, imposing punitive tariffs on companies that manufacture in China and other nations. These were the right policies, and the effort to rebuild our industrial base is only beginning.

Defend American Small Businesses
Now more than ever, our economy favors foreign companies that vocally oppose American values. Why do Apple and Coca Cola feel the need to threaten states that pass election integrity measures? And why does our economic policy reward them more than local businesses? Our family-owned, American-made businesses are doomed if this trend continues. Did you know that Google, a massive technology company that actively works with the Chinese Communist Party pays a lower tax rate than many Ohio manufacturers who struggle desperately to never do business with the Chinese? At the same time, some of our biggest companies funded Black Lives Matter riots that destroyed our towns and cities. I’m done with an economy that favors anti-American multinationals over pro-American local businesses.

My fellow Republicans love to talk about tax cuts. By all means, let’s cut the taxes of the companies that invest in our country. But we’re going to raise taxes on companies that ship jobs overseas and use their money to fund anti-American radical movements. If these companies are going to wage war on America, it’s time America wages war on them.

Dismantle Big Tech Oligarchy
I know the technology industry well. I’ve worked in it and invested in it, and I’m sick of politicians who talk big about Big Tech but do nothing about it. The tech industry promised all of us better lives and faster communication; instead, it steals our private information, sells it to the Chinese, and then censors conservatives and others for daring to have a controversial opinion.

The solution is simple: we need to break up the big tech companies, to reduce their power in our economy and our politics. We also need to ban the theft of our personal information. If they want our data, it’s time they paid for it.

Spending and Inflation
The Biden administration has spent billions and billions of dollars on things we don’t need. Why do we need a “transportation equity” agency to ensure that we don’t have too many male truck drivers? Why are we spending billions on battery technologies that are controlled by the Chinese Communist Party and built by Chinese workers? The result of needless spending is runaway inflation, which has made it harder for normal Americans to afford basic necessities. Inflation has hit our seniors especially hard, many of whom live on a fixed income. It’s time to get this inflation under control.

Health & Education

Protect Conservative Values
The Left has decided to wage a culture war against traditional values. People get fired for saying things that were commonsense 10 years ago. They take hundreds of billions of American tax dollars and send it to universities that teach that America is an evil, racist nation, which is all critical race theory (CRT) is. Those universities then train teachers who bring that indoctrination into our elementary and high schools.

It’s time for us to fight back. Not a single additional dollar for universities—in Ohio or out—that teach critical race theory or radical gender ideology. We need to force our schools to give an honest, patriotic account of American history. And we must give parents resources to control their kids’ education—whether they choose a traditional public school, a charter school, a religious school, or a home school.

Conserve Traditional Families
Many of our families are broken. I know what it’s like to grow up without a father in the home, and the problems that can create for a lifetime. We need to reinvigorate the American family, make it easier to support a family on a single middle-class wage, and encourage fathers to step up in families across our country.

Currently our tax code penalizes marriage and family, we should turn that on its head and reward marriage and family.

Combat Drug and Opioid Epidemic
Opioid addiction has devastated my family and my community. More and more Ohioans are falling victim to addiction, which means an entire generation of children orphaned, and another generation of grandparents forced to step up for our community’s kids. Communities are on the decline as job loss and poverty further engulf them. I’ll work to tackle the drug epidemic, eliminate the drugs coming into our community, and help those devastated by addiction. America is a country of second chances, and I’m proud to say that people in my own family have struggled with addiction for a decade before coming out on the other side of it. We need to ensure more second chances for Ohioans from all walks of life.

Restore Sanity on COVID-19
COVID-19 is undoubtedly a horrible disease that has killed many Americans. But we now know enough about COVID and have developed therapies and vaccines that should allow us to get back to normal. You shouldn’t have to “show your papers” to go to a restaurant in our country, and our children—who are not at significant risk from COVID-19—should be able to go to school in person, without masks hiding the faces of their friends and teachers.

Public Safety

Solve Southern Border Crisis
Unchecked, illegal immigrants are entering our country at record rates. Joe Biden’s do-nothing policies give millions of aliens a free pass to break our laws, traffic drugs into our communities, contribute to rising crime and take jobs away from hardworking Americans. Biden’s policies have created a crisis out of thin air, after four years of President Trump’s successful efforts to get our border under control. As Ohio’s next senator, I will oppose every attempt by the Democrats to grant amnesty, so that our communities are safe places to live and work and raise a family. I’ll also work to finish construction of a border wall, and double the number of border agents in our country. Border security is not rocket science—we simply need the political will and the resources to do it.

We also must reform our legal immigration system. In no other developed country do we allow migration primarily based on family relations rather than skills. Millions of people want to come here, and we should only allow them if they contribute something meaningful to our country. Importantly, our ability to assimilate immigrants successfully—something our country should be proud of—is contingent on American leadership that loves this country. Forty years ago, new American immigrants came to a country where bipartisan leaders delivered a simple message: this great country is now your own, and you have a duty to help build it. Today, those same leaders deliver a different message: this is an evil and racist country, and you owe nothing to it. Because of this, our capacity to assimilate the next generation of immigrants is limited, and our legal immigration system should account for this fact by changing who we let in and reducing the total numbers.

A Foreign Policy that Puts Americans First
For two decades, global elites have played a trick on normal Americans: send your sons and daughters to die for nation-building wars in some far flung corner of the world, and when their utopian fantasies fail, accept millions of refugees into middle and working class neighborhoods. This is a bad deal for Americans, a bad deal for our troops, a bad deal for the refugees, but a good deal for the elites who profit from endless war.

Importantly, American political leaders should stop using America’s military as a social justice side project. Our troops don’t need to focus on diversity or equity or any other progressive buzzword; they need to focus on fighting and winning America’s wars.

Human Rights

End Abortion
I am 100 percent pro-life, and believe that abortion has turned our society into a place where we see children as an inconvenience to be thrown away rather than a blessing to be nurtured. Eliminating abortion is first and foremost about protecting the unborn, but it’s also about making our society more pro-child and pro-family

Protect Second Amendment Rights
Joe Biden and anti-democracy multinational companies are trying to find new ways to take guns away from law-abiding citizens. They’re making it harder to buy firearms and ammunition, and imposing new, unconstitutional regulations on American citizens. I will fight the gun grabbers, whether they’re federal bureaucrats enacting regulations or multinational companies punishing people for exercising their rights. When a payments processor attempts to restrict Americans from buying firearms or ammunition, I’ll push back with federal legislation.

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James David Vance (born James Donald Bowman; August 2, 1984) is an American venture capitalist, author, and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Ohio since 2023.[1][2] A member of the Republican Party, he came to prominence with his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.

Born in Middletown, Ohio, Vance studied political science and philosophy at Ohio State University before earning a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. His memoir, which describes his upbringing in Middletown and his family’s Appalachian values, became a New York Times bestseller and attracted significant press attention during the 2016 United States presidential election.[3] Vance launched his first political campaign for Ohio’s Senate seat in 2021 and won the Republican nomination. He defeated Democratic nominee Tim Ryan in the general election.

Vance was a critic of Donald Trump during the 2016 election, becoming a member of the Never Trump movement, but changed his rhetoric after announcing his candidacy for the Senate. During his tenure in the Senate, he has been a staunch Trump loyalist and defender of Trump’s most authoritarian assertions.[4]

Early life and education

James David Vance was born on August 2, 1984, in Middletown, Ohio, between Cincinnati and Dayton, as James Donald Bowman, the son of Donald Bowman and Bev Vance. Of Scots-Irish descent,[5][3][6][7] his mother and father divorced when Vance was a toddler. Shortly afterward, he was adopted by his mother’s third husband.[5] Vance and his sister were raised primarily by his grandparents, James and Bonnie Vance, whom they called “Mamaw and Papaw.”[6][8][9][10] J. D. later went by the name James Hamel, his stepfather’s surname, until adopting his grandparents’ surname, Vance.[11]

Vance was educated at Middletown High School,[12] a public high school in his hometown. After graduating, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps[13] and served in the Iraq War as a Public Affairs Officer (PAO) with the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing.[14][15][16][17] Vance later attended Ohio State University, graduating in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude in political science and philosophy.[18][19] While at Ohio State, he worked for Republican Ohio State Senator Bob Schuler.[20]

After graduating from Ohio State, Vance attended Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. During his first year, his professor Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, persuaded him to write his memoir.[21] Vance graduated from Yale in 2013 with a Juris Doctor.

Early career

Vance in 2017

After working at a corporate law firm, Vance moved to San Francisco to work in the tech industry as a venture capitalist. He served as a principal at Peter Thiel‘s firm, Mithril Capital.[22]

In 2016, Harper published Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. It was on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2016 and 2017. It was a finalist for the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize[23] and winner of the 2017 Audie Award for Nonfiction. The New York Times called it “one of the six best books to help understand Trump’s win“.[3] The Washington Post called him the “voice of the Rust Belt“,[2] while The New Republic criticized him as “liberal media’s favorite white trash–splainer” and the “false prophet of blue America.”[24] Economist William Easterly, a West Virginia native, criticized the book, writing, “Sloppy analysis of collections of people—coastal elites, flyover America, Muslims, immigrants, people without college degrees, you name it—has become routine. And it’s killing our politics.”[25]

In December 2016, Vance indicated that he planned to move to Ohio to start a nonprofit, potentially run for office,[26] and work on combating drug addiction in the Rust Belt.[2]

In 2017, Vance joined Revolution LLC, an investment firm founded by AOL cofounder Steve Case, as an investment partner, where he was tasked with expanding the “Rise of the Rest” initiative, which focuses on growing investments in under-served regions outside the Silicon Valley and New York City tech bubbles.[27]

In January 2017, Vance became a CNN contributor.[28] In April 2017, Ron Howard signed on to direct a film version of Hillbilly Elegy, which Netflix released in 2020, and which starred Owen Asztalos and Gabriel Basso as Vance.[29]

In 2019, Vance co-founded Narya Capital in Cincinnati, with financial backing from Thiel, Eric Schmidt, and Marc Andreessen.[30] In 2020, he raised $93 million for the firm.[31] With Thiel and former Trump adviser Darren Blanton, Vance has invested in the Canadian online video platform Rumble, popular among those on the right.[32][33]

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2022 campaign

Main article: 2022 United States Senate election in Ohio
Final results by county
Final results by county in 2022:

  J.D. Vance
  •   80–90%
  •   70–80%
  •   60–70%
  •   50–60%
  •   60–70%
  •   50–60%

In early 2018, Vance reportedly considered running for U.S. Senate against Sherrod Brown,[34] but decided not to.[35] In March 2021, Peter Thiel gave $10 million to Protect Ohio Values, a super PAC created in February to support a potential Vance candidacy;[36][37][38] Robert Mercer also gave an undisclosed amount.[36] In April, Vance expressed interest in running for the Senate seat being vacated by Republican Rob Portman.[39] In May, he launched an exploratory committee.[40]

In July 2021, Vance officially entered the race;[41] it was his first campaign for public office.[42] On May 3, 2022, he won the Republican primary with 32% of the vote,[43] defeating multiple candidates, including Josh Mandel (23%) and Matt Dolan (22%).[44] In the general election on November 8, Vance defeated Democratic nominee Tim Ryan with 53.1% of the vote to Ryan’s 46.9%.[45]

Tenure

Vance was sworn in to the U.S. Senate on January 3, 2023, as a member of the 118th United States Congress. He is the first U.S. senator from Ohio to take office without holding previous government experience since John Glenn, who took office in 1974.

Vance has gained significant media attention for his response to the 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.[46][47][48] He was criticized for a delayed response to the derailment, with an official statement from his office released on February 13. Vance and others countered that he had responded to the derailment the day after it occurred, sooner than fellow Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown.[49][50]

On February 26, Vance wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post supporting the provision of PPP style funds to those affected by the derailment, which some Republican senators criticized.[51][52] On March 1, Vance, Brown, and Senators John Fetterman, Bob Casey, Josh Hawley, and Marco Rubio proposed legislation to prevent another rail derailment like the one in East Palestine.[53][54] The bill has received bipartisan Senate support.[55]

Committee assignments

For the 117th United States Congress, Vance was named to three Senate committees.[56] They are:

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Vance has been called a populist conservative.[57]

Social issues

Vance opposes abortion, and he has indicated that he may support a federal ban on abortions after 15 weeks. He has also said that abortion laws can be set by the states.[58][59] When asked whether abortion laws should include exceptions for rape and incest, he said, “two wrong[s] don’t make a right.”[60]

Vance opposes the Respect for Marriage Act[61][62] and has said, “I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman, but I don’t think the gay marriage issue is alive right now. I’m not one of these guys who’s looking to try to take people’s families and rip them apart.”[63]

Vance has proposed a bill that would make gender-affirming care for minors a federal felony and block taxpayer funds from being used for it, saying in a statement, “Under no circumstances should doctors be allowed to perform these gruesome, irreversible operations on underage children.”[64]

Immigration and border security

Vance once admonished Trump for demonizing immigrants, but has repeatedly called the effects of illegal immigration “dirty”.[65][66] He has supported Trump’s proposal for a wall along the southern border and rejected the idea that advocates for the border wall are racist. He has also proposed spending $3 billion to finish Trump’s wall.[67][68] In 2022, he told Tucker Carlson that Democrats “have decided that they can’t win reelection in 2022 unless they bring a large number of new voters to replace the voters that are already here.”[69] This led to political opponent Tim Ryan‘s allegations that Vance was endorsing the white supremacist Great Replacement conspiracy theory, according to which there is an effort to replace white Americans with immigrants.[70][69] During his 2022 U.S. Senate campaign, Vance said that President Joe Biden was flooding Ohio with illegal drugs by not enforcing security at the southern border,[71] a claim The New York Times called “blatantly false”.[72]

Foreign policy

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Vance said the U.S. does not want to pull out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), but argued the U.S. should shift its focus to East Asia and that certain European and NATO member countries are not spending enough for their own security.[73][74]

Vance has voiced opposition to U.S. military aid to Ukraine in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War. He has said it is in America’s interest to accept that “Ukraine is going to have to cede some territory to the Russians”.[75] Vance has faced criticism for his views on Ukraine. In December 2023, he was criticized for calling for the suspension of further aid to Ukraine because he said it would be used so its ministers “can buy a bigger yacht”.[76]

Vance supports U.S. funding to Israel in the ongoing Israel-Hamas War.[77] When asked whether he would support military action against Iran after militias allegedly connected to Iran attacked U.S. troops, Vance rejected the idea, citing concern it would be a significant escalation.[78][79]

Childlessness, divorce, and domestic abuse

In a 2021 speech to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Vance blamed “the childless left” for America’s woes. He praised far-right Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban for encouraging married couples to have children, and said that parents should “have a bigger say in how democracy functions” than non-parents.[80]

In September 2021, while speaking at Pacifica Christian High School in California, Vance said, “This is one of the great tricks that I think the sexual revolution pulled on the American populace, which is the idea that, like, ‘well, OK, these marriages were fundamentally, you know, they were maybe even violent, but certainly they were unhappy. And so getting rid of them and making it easier for people to shift spouses like they change their underwear, that’s going to make people happier in the long term.’”[81] Vice wrote that Vance “seemed to suggest that in some cases, ‘even violent’ marriages should continue.” In response to Vice, Vance claimed that rates of domestic violence had “skyrocketed” in recent years due to what he called “modern society’s war on families”. In recent decades, rates of domestic violence have decreased.[82][83] A strategist for Vance called Vice's characterization misleading and said Vance does not support people staying in abusive relationships.[84]

Antitrust laws

Vance has expressed concern that large tech companies have too much influence in politics and the flow of information and has called to “break up” Google, as well as implying he believes Meta should be split up.[85][86] He has called Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan a Biden administration member who is “doing a pretty good job”, citing her antitrust enforcement against tech firms.[85][87] Vance and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse introduced the Stop Subsidizing Giant Mergers Act, which would end tax-free treatment for corporate mergers and acquisitions of companies above a certain threshold.[88][89]

Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023

Vance was among the 31 Senate Republicans who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023.[90]

Trade policy

Vance has supported protectionist reforms. He has advocated imposing tariffs on China[91] and proposed a bill to remove China’s most favored nation status.[92]

Climate change and the environment

Vance has downplayed the effects of climate change. In response to a radio host who asserted there was no climate crisis, Vance said, “No, I don’t think there is, either.”[93] He has said, “If you think that man-made climate change is a catastrophic problem, the solution for it is for us to produce more of our own energy, including fossil fuels, here in the United States”, implying that outsourcing energy production would cause more pollution.[94] Vance has also argued that environmental regulations have caused a large number of manufacturing jobs to be outsourced to other countries.[95] He has proposed a bill that would repeal certain tax credits created by the Inflation Reduction Act for electric vehicles and would create a $7,500 tax credit for gas-powered cars manufactured in the U.S.[96]

Relationship with Donald Trump

During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Vance was an outspoken critic of Republican nominee Donald Trump. In a February 2016 USA Today column, he wrote that “Trump’s actual policy proposals, such as they are, range from immoral to absurd.”[97] In October 2016, he called Trump “reprehensible” in a post on Twitter,[98] and described himself as a “never-Trump guy.”[99]

By February 2018, Vance began changing his opinion, saying Trump “is one of the few political leaders in America that recognizes the frustration that exists in large parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, eastern Kentucky and so forth”.[100]

Vance supported Trump in 2020.[101] In July 2021, he apologized for calling Trump “reprehensible” and deleted posts from 2016 from his Twitter account that were critical of him.[102][103] Vance said that he now thought Trump was a good president and expressed regret about his criticism during the 2016 election.[98] Vance visited Mar-a-Lago to meet with Trump and Peter Thiel ahead of an official announcement regarding his U.S. Senate campaign.[39]

In October 2021, Vance reiterated Trump’s false claims of election fraud, saying that Trump lost the 2020 presidential election because of widespread voter fraud.[104]

On April 15, 2022, Trump endorsed Vance for U.S. Senate.[99] On April 18, Vance’s former law school roommate, politician Josh McLaurin, leaked private messages that Vance had sent him in 2016 in which Vance questioned whether Trump would become another “cynical asshole” like Richard Nixon or “America’s Hitler.”[105] Vance also stated his intention to vote for independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin in the 2016 presidential election.[98]

After historian Robert Kagan wrote a November 2023 Washington Post opinion piece titled “A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending”, Vance wrote Attorney General Merrick Garland a letter suggesting Kagan be prosecuted for promoting “open rebellion” by Democrat-controlled states. Kagan said that his piece did not advocate rebellion and remarked, “It is revealing that their first instinct when attacked by a journalist is to suggest that they be locked up.”[106][107]

Labor unions

Vance has said, “As an abstract matter, yes, I support collective bargaining.”[108] But he opposes the PRO Act, which expands protections related to employees’ rights to organize and collectively bargain, instead voicing support for proposals by the conservative group American Compass, which includes workers’ councils and sectoral bargaining.[109][110] Vance did support the 2023 United Auto Workers strike.[111]

Personal life

Vance has been married to a former law school classmate, Usha Chilukuri Vance, since 2014. They have three children.[112] For much of his professional career, Vance and his family have lived in San Francisco, where they were active in community gardening.[113]

Vance was raised in a “conservative, evangelical” branch of Protestantism, but by September 2016, he was “thinking very seriously about converting to Catholicism” but was “not an active participant” in any particular religious denomination.[114] In August 2019, Vance was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church in a ceremony at St. Gertrude Priory in Cincinnati, Ohio. He chose Augustine of Hippo as his Confirmation saint. Vance said he converted because he “became persuaded over time that Catholicism was true”, and described Catholic theology’s influence on his political views.[115]

Also in 2019, the first issue of The Lamp, which has since been called “a Catholic version of The New Yorker“,[116] included an essay by Vance describing the reasons for his conversion to Roman Catholicism.[117]

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J.D. Vance

JD Vance – OH

Current Position: US Senator since 2023
Affiliation: Republican
Former Positions: Venture Capital since 2017; Author, Hillbilly Elegy

After working at a corporate law firm, Vance moved to San Francisco to work in the tech industry. He served as a principal at Peter Thiel’s venture capital firm, Mithril Capital.

n 2016, Harper published Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. It was on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2016 and 2017. In 2017, Vance joined Revolution LLC, an investment firm founded by AOL cofounder Steve Case, as an investment partner, where he was tasked with expanding the “Rise of the Rest” initiative, which focuses on growing investments in under-served regions outside the Silicon Valley and New York City tech bubbles.

In 2019, Vance co-founded Narya Capital in Cincinnati, with financial backing from Thiel, Eric Schmidt, and Marc Andreessen. In 2020, he raised $93 million for the firm.

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Two-term Republican Rob Portman was re-elected in 2016 with 58% of the vote. On January 25, 2021, he announced that he would not be running for re-election.

Venture capitalist and author J. D. Vance was nominated in a crowded and competitive Republican primary, defeating USMCR veteran and former Ohio State Treasurer Josh Mandel, state senator Matt Dolan, investment banker Mike Gibbons, and former Ohio Republican Party chair Jane Timken, among others. Vance was endorsed by former President Donald Trump in the primary.

U.S. Representative and 2020 presidential candidate Tim Ryan is the Democratic nominee.

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Current Position: US Representative of OH 13th District since 2013
Affiliation: Democrat
Candidate: 2023 US Senator
Former Position: State Senator from 2001 – 2002

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