Episode 2820
JD Vance
Tue, 2025-Jan-21 01:18 UTC
Length - 2:50
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With 990,169 views on Monday, 20 January 2025 our article of the day is JD Vance.
James David Vance (born James Donald Bowman; August 2, 1984) is an American politician, author, attorney, and Marine Corps veteran serving as the 50th and current vice president of the United States since 2025 under President Donald Trump. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Ohio in the U. S. Senate from 2023 to 2025.
After high school, Vance joined the Marine Corps, where he served as a military journalist from 2003 to 2007, and deployed to Iraq for six months in 2005. He graduated from Ohio State University with a bachelor's degree in 2009 and Yale Law School with a law degree in 2013. He practiced briefly as a corporate lawyer before embarking on a career in the tech industry as a venture capitalist. His memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, was published in 2016 and adapted into a film in 2020.
Vance won the 2022 United States Senate election in Ohio, defeating Democratic nominee Tim Ryan. After initially opposing Donald Trump's candidacy in the 2016 election, Vance became a strong Trump supporter during Trump's first presidency. In July 2024, Trump selected Vance as his running mate before the Republican National Convention. He served as Ohio's senator until his resignation in preparation to assume the vice presidency in January 2025. Vance is the third-youngest vice president in U. S. history and the first to be born in the Millennial generation.
Vance has been characterized as a national conservative and right-wing populist, and he describes himself as a member of the postliberal right. His political positions include support for gun rights, school vouchers, and border security, while opposing abortion, same-sex marriage, and American military aid to Ukraine. Vance is an outspoken critic of childlessness and has acknowledged the influence of Catholic theology on his sociopolitical positions.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:18 UTC on Tuesday, 21 January 2025.
For the full current version of the article, see JD Vance on Wikipedia.
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