About JD Vance – J.D. Vance (senate.gov)
JD 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.
Why they hate JD Vance – spiked (spiked-online.com)
A new bogeyman has emerged in US politics. His name is James David ‘JD’ Vance, and he will be the kind of villain JR Ewing from Dallas was in the 1980s. Only this won’t be a baddie you love to hate – you’re meant to just hate him.
JD Vance’s confusing evolution from liberal touchstone to Maga superstar | JD Vance | The Guardian
JD Vance regaled the attendees of the Republican national convention on Wednesday with stories of his childhood – a life of poverty and struggle, surrounded by people who he said had found themselves at the mercy of economic downturns and forgotten by the country’s governing elites.