J.D. Vance and Donald Trump met for the first time in 2021 at Mar-a-Lago, right before Vance set out on the campaign trail to become Ohio's junior senator. Suddenly, ...

Trump's pick for vice president, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, arrives on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 15 in Milwaukee.

J.D. Vance emerges in the pages of Hillbilly Elegy as a rich person’s idea of a poor person. (His primary self-reported marker of teen impoverishment is an inability to afford clothes from ...

J.D. didn't have a relationship with his father, David Bowman (b. 1959, d. 2023)."Dad gave me up for adoption when I was 6," he wrote in his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. "After the adoption, he became ...

Vance, too, had only recently made a full accommodation with Trump. A longtime political adviser to Vance told me, “The problem that J.D. had always been trying to solve is what to do about the ...

J.D. Vance looks annoyed. It’s a Tuesday afternoon in August, and we’re sitting near the front of his campaign plane, flying from a rally in Michigan to a fundraiser in Tennessee.

In May 2022, when J.D. Vance was a primary candidate vying for a U.S. Senate seat in Ohio, former President Donald J. Trump referred to him — or, seemed to refer to him — in passing at a rally ...

J. D. Vance’s speech at the Republican National Convention completed his transformation from Never Trumper to Trump’s MAGA torchbearer. Vance dutifully spent his first five minutes praising ...

Vice President J.D. Vance addresses a gathering at the Rajasthan International Centre in Jaipur on April 22, 2025. KENNY HOLSTON/POOL/AFP/Getty Images ...