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J.D. Vance
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2023 - Present
2029
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J.D. Vance (Republican Party) is a member of the U.S. Senate from Ohio. He assumed office on January 3, 2023. His current term ends on January 3, 2029.
On July 15, 2024, Donald Trump (R) announced Vance as his vice presidential running mate. Trump said, "J.D. has had a very successful business career in Technology and Finance, and now, during the Campaign, will be strongly focused on the people he fought so brilliantly for, the American Workers and Farmers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, and far beyond..." Vance officially accepted the nomination at the 2024 Republican National Convention.
Vance is the youngest major party vice presidential nominee since 1952, when President Dwight Eisenhower (R) picked Richard Nixon as his running mate.
Vance was born in Middletown, Ohio, in 1984. In 2016, he wrote Hillbilly Elegy, a memoir about growing up in Middletown. Netflix adapted the book into a movie in 2020. Vance served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2003 to 2007. He attended Ohio State University from 2007 to 2009, graduating with a bachelor's degree in political science and philosophy. In 2013, Vance graduated from Yale Law School with a law degree.
Vance worked in venture capital in San Francisco and Washington D.C., before co-founding Narya, a venture capital firm, in 2020.
Vance entered politics in July 2021, when he announced he would run for U.S. Senate to replace retiring Sen. Rob Portman (R). Vance defeated Tim Ryan (D) in the November 9, 2022, general election, winning 53% to 46.9%. Vance campaigned on bringing manufacturing back to Ohio, fixing the country's immigration system and completing the wall along the southern border, and breaking up large technology companies. He said, "We really need people who are solving the big problems. We’ve had way too much time of politicians trying to tinker around the edges just trying to fix the superficial." Trump endorsed Vance in the race.
As a U.S. Senator, Vance voted against a bill authorizing $95 billion for military aid to Ukraine and Israel, though he said he supports Israel in its war against Hamas. Vance said he opposes abortion and believes the states should decide the issue. After a June 2024 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a case related to mifepristone, a drug used in medication abortions, Vance said he supported access to the drug. Vance said those residing in the country without legal permission take jobs from U.S. workers and lower wages: "If you cannot hire illegal migrants to staff your hotels, then you have to go to one of the seven million prime-age American men who are out of the labor force and find some way to re-engage them." In July 2023, Vance introduced The Timely Departures Act, which would require foreign nationals to pay a cash bond of between $5,000 and $15,000 to the federal government in exchange for a temporary visa.
In an interview with the New York Times in 2024, Vance said, "Center-left liberals who are doing very well, and center-right conservatives who are doing very well, have an incredible blind spot about how much their success is built on a system that is not serving people who they should be serving."
J.D. Vance was born in Middletown, Ohio. Vance graduated from Middletown High School in Ohio in 2003. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2003 to 2007.
Vance earned a B.A. in political science and philosophy from Ohio State University in 2009 and a J.D. from Yale University Law School in 2013. His career experience includes co-founding Narya, founding Our Ohio Renewal, and working as an intern for Republican state senator Bob Schuler, a law clerk for U.S. Senator John Cornyn and U.S. District Court for Kentucky's Eastern District Judge David Bunning, a litigation associate with the Sidley Austin law firm, the director of operations at Circuit Therapeutics, a principal at Mithril Capital Management, a venture capitalist with Revolution, LLC, and an author.
Donald Trump (R) announced Vance as his running mate on July 15, 2024. In a post on Truth Social Trump said, "After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio. [...] J.D. has had a very successful business career in Technology and Finance, and now, during the Campaign, will be strongly focused on the people he fought so brilliantly for, the American Workers and Farmers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, and far beyond."
Trump announced his presidential campaign on November 15, 2022. Click the links below to read more about the 2024 presidential election:
The following candidates ran in the general election for U.S. Senate Ohio on November 8, 2022.
| J.D. Vance (R) | 53.0% | 2,192,114 Votes✔ |
 | Tim Ryan (D) | 46.9% | 1,939,489 Votes |
 | John Cheng (Independent) (Write-in)  | 0.0% | 702 Votes |
 | Shane Hoffman (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0% | 403 Votes |
 | LaShondra Tinsley (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0% | 362 Votes |
 | Stephen Faris (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0% | 194 Votes |
| Matthew Esh (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0% | 78 Votes |
| Total votes: 4,133,342 | ||||
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Tim Ryan defeated Morgan Harper and Traci Johnson in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Ohio on May 3, 2022.
| Tim Ryan | 69.6% | 359,941 Votes✔ |
 | Morgan Harper | 17.8% | 92,347 Votes |
 | Traci Johnson | 12.6% | 65,209 Votes |
| Total votes: 517,497 | ||||
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The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Ohio on May 3, 2022.
| J.D. Vance | 32.2% | 344,736 Votes✔ |
 | Josh Mandel | 23.9% | 255,854 Votes |
 | Matt Dolan | 23.3% | 249,239 Votes |
 | Mike Gibbons | 11.7% | 124,653 Votes |
 | Jane Timken | 5.9% | 62,779 Votes |
| Mark Pukita | 2.1% | 22,692 Votes |
 | Neil Patel | 0.9% | 9,873 Votes |
| Total votes: 1,069,826 | ||||
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