Vice president of the United States since 2025
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A 2016 memoir about Appalachian drift made him a translator of white working-class anger—then he became the thing he'd once opposed, and rode it to the second-highest office in the country.
Born in Middletown, Ohio, Vance enlisted in the Marines in 2003 and served as a military journalist before earning degrees from Ohio State and Yale Law School. After a stint in corporate law, he worked for Peter Thiel's venture capital firm Mithril Capital. His 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, arrived as scholars scrambled to decode Trump's election and became a surprise bestseller, later adapted into a 2020 film. He'd originally opposed Trump's candidacy but reversed course, converting to Roman Catholicism in 2019 and winning a 2022 Senate seat in Ohio with Trump's endorsement after a crowded pr…
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Trump makes people I care about afraid. Immigrants, Muslims, etc. Because of this I find him reprehensible. God wants better of us.
I think that I'm going to vote third party because I can't stomach Trump. I think that he's noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.
What Trump offers is an easy escape from the pain. To every complex problem, he promises a simple solution.
Anger about the wars isn't the only reason voters support Mr. Trump. But his willingness to say what other G.O.P.
Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.
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