Donald Trump chose Ohio Senator JD Vance as his running mate. Vance has become known as an advocate for labor.
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US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump chose the Ohio senator as his vice presidential candidate By JD Vance. Trump tells about it on his own social media platform Truth Social.
Vance, 39, was elected to the Senate in 2022. He gained a lot of publicity in 2016 with his autobiography, Hillbilly Elegy, in which he talks about his working-class childhood. According to the book, Vance’s family experienced financial hardship as industrial jobs disappeared from Vance’s childhood hometown of Middletown, Ohio.
In Truth Social, Trump praises the book for “defending working men and women” and Vance for having “fought brilliantly for American workers and farmers.”
Prior to his political career, Vance served in the US Marine Corps in the Iraq War and worked as a corporate attorney and venture capitalist in the technology industry.
Back in 2016, Vance said that he was against Trump and his policies. However, he later changed his mind. In 2021, he apologized for criticizing Trump in an interview with Fox News.
Shortly after the interview, Vance ran for the Ohio senatorial race and won it with Trump’s support.
Trump has a new vice presidential candidate
The vice president is the second highest office in the United States administration, right after the president. The vice-president becomes president if, for example, the president dies or resigns in the middle of the term.
The vice president also serves as the president of the senate. Typically, the vice president also acts as the president’s “right hand” and takes care of certain agreed areas of responsibility.
Served as Trump’s vice president in the previous presidential term Mike Pence. Pence and Trump parted ways when, after the 2020 election, Pence refused to support Trump’s attempts to challenge the Democrat Joe Biden election victory.