Who Is JD Vance, Trump’s New Running Mate?

Donald Trump has named JD Vance as his 2024 running mate. The senator was born in Middletown, Ohio and has an impressive list of credentials. Vance grew up in poverty, with a mother who struggled with addiction. He chronicled his difficult upbringing in the best-selling memoir, ‘Hillbilly Elegy’. Despite tough beginnings, Vance went on to join the US marines, later to graduate from Ohio State University and Yale Law School, and eventually to California, where he worked as a venture capitalist. He has strong fundraising connections in tech and finance sectors. His wife Usha Vance, is a first-generation Indian-American. She is a litigator at a national firm, and a practicing Hindu. In the past, Vance was a harsh critic of the former President. He saw Trump as having a negative impact on his white working class voter base, saying that Trump gave ‘people an excuse to point the finger at someone else, point the finger at Mexican immigrants, or Ch