JD Vance came to prominence with his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.
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20 Facts About JD Vance
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JD Vance's mother and father divorced when Vance was a toddler.
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JD Vance was educated at Middletown High School, a public high school in his hometown.
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JD Vance served as a principal at Peter Thiel's venture capital firm, Mithril Capital.
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In December 2016, JD Vance indicated that he planned to move to Ohio to start a nonprofit, and potentially run for office, and work on combating drug addiction in the Rust Belt.
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In early 2018, Vance was reported to have been considering a bid for U S Senate as a Republican running against Democrat Sherrod Brown, but declined to run.
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Peter Thiel has given $10 million to Protect Ohio Values, a super PAC, created in February 2021 to support Vance in running for the 2022 U S Senate election in Ohio.
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JD Vance defeated multiple candidates including Josh Mandel and Matt Dolan.
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JD Vance has been called a right-wing populist and national conservative candidate, backed by venture capitalist Peter Thiel and endorsed by Tucker Carlson.
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JD Vance is influenced by fellow Senate candidate Blake Masters, conservative writer Rod Dreher, and by neoreactionary blogger Curtis Yarvin.
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In July 2021, JD Vance said that the culture war is a class war against middle class and working class Americans, and he said that it's an economic war against conservatives.
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JD Vance has voiced opposition to same-sex marriage and the proposed Respect for Marriage Act.
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JD Vance changed his rhetoric after announcing his candidacy for the United States Senate in July 2021.
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JD Vance had visited Mar-a-Lago to meet with Trump and Peter Thiel ahead of an official announcement.
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Whereas JD Vance had once admonished Trump for demonizing immigrants, JD Vance himself has repeatedly called illegal immigration "dirty".
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In October 2021, JD Vance reiterated Trump's claims of election fraud, falsely stating that Trump lost the 2020 presidential election because of widespread voter fraud.
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JD Vance has been married to a former law school classmate, Usha Chilukuri JD Vance, since 2014, and they have three children.
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JD Vance was raised in a "conservative, evangelical" branch of Protestantism, but by September 2016, he was "thinking very seriously about converting to Catholicism".
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JD Vance added that he was "not an active participant" in any particular religious denomination.
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Also in 2019, the first issue of The Lamp, which has since been described as "a Catholic version of The New Yorker", included an essay by JD Vance describing the reasons for his conversion to the Roman Catholic Church.
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