{"id":628040,"date":"2024-07-18T08:15:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T05:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/meet-the-veep-jd-vance-on-being-a-father-author\/"},"modified":"2024-07-18T08:15:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T05:15:30","slug":"meet-the-veep-jd-vance-on-being-a-father-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/meet-the-veep-jd-vance-on-being-a-father-author\/","title":{"rendered":"#Meet the veep: JD Vance on being a father, author"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35816fd8d96\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35816fd8d96\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/meet-the-veep-jd-vance-on-being-a-father-author\/#Rugged_good_looks_and_Rust_Belt_appeal\" >Rugged good looks and Rust Belt appeal<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/meet-the-veep-jd-vance-on-being-a-father-author\/#JD_Vance_who\" >JD Vance who?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"videoWrap\" class=\"spacer-large videoWrap\" style=\"position:relative\"><media-video video-id=\"74451042007\" title=\"JD Vance speaks at RNC: Our duty to 'preserve the American experiment'\" poster=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2024\/07\/18\/USAT\/74451041007-vpc-rnc-jd-vance-us-network-pool.jpg?crop=1919,1079,x0,y0\" util-module-path=\"elements\/media\" placement=\"snow-video-story-priority\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"uwVideoPlaceholder\" slot=\"placeholder\" style=\"z-index:19;width:100%;padding-bottom:56.25%;position:relative\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2024\/07\/18\/USAT\/74451041007-vpc-rnc-jd-vance-us-network-pool.jpg?crop=1919,1079,x0,y0\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"vidplaybtn\" style=\"display:-moz-box;display:-ms-flexbox;display:-webkit-flex;display:flex;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,.4);border:2px solid #fff;border-radius:80px;cursor:pointer;height:80px;width:80px;position:absolute;top:50%;left:50%;transform:translate(-50%,-50%);z-index:10\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div slot=\"videoDetails\" id=\"videoDetails\" class=\"videoDetails\" style=\"padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:8px\">\n<div id=\"videoDetailsContainer\" class=\"videoDetailsContainer\" hidden=\"\">JD Vance speaks at RNC: Our duty to &#8216;preserve the American experiment&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, introduced himself at the Republican National Convention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/media-video><\/div>\n<p>MILWAUKEE \u2212 JD Vance, introducing himself to the American people for the first time Wednesday night, wanted to make this much clear: He&#8217;s not a pol.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"600\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\" momentum=\"\"><\/partner-banner>\n<p>He is the survivor of a childhood marked by violence and his mother&#8217;s drug addiction. He is a Marine veteran, a husband and father, an entrepreneur, an author whose <em>Hillbilly Elegy<\/em> told the story of the decline of his grandparents&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>alachia with such pathos that it became a national bestseller and a Netflix movie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some people tell me I\u2019ve lived the American Dream, and, of course, they&#8217;re right,&#8221; the Ohio senator said. &#8220;But the American Dream that always counted most was not starting a business or becoming a senator or even being here with you fine people, although it&#8217;s pretty awesome. It was becoming a good husband and a good dad, and of giving my family the things I never had as a kid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And that\u2019s the accomplishment I\u2019m proudest of.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pol or not, though, James David Vance has scored one of the fastest rises in modern American politics of anyone not named Trump.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"><\/partner-banner><partner-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" placement=\"native-article_link\" sizes=\"[[300, 250], [3, 3]]\" min-height=\"250\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"><\/partner-inline>\n<p>In 2022, in his first bid for public office, Vance prevailed in a crowded Republican primary, then won a contested Senate race. Eighteen months later, he was on stage at the Fiserv Forum here, being cheered by thousands of conventioneers as he accepted Trump&#8217;s offer to join his ticket.<\/p>\n<p>If elected, he would be the youngest vice president since the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>Win or lose, he now has the Trump stamp of approval as an heir to the MAGA movement that has redefined the Republican Party and roiled American politics.<\/p>\n<partner-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" placement=\"native-article_link\" sizes=\"[[300, 250], [3, 3]]\" min-height=\"250\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"><\/partner-inline><cta-atoms-container-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/cta\" class=\"spacer-large\"><\/cta-atoms-container-inline><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"presto-h2 wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Rugged_good_looks_and_Rust_Belt_appeal\"><\/span>Rugged good looks and Rust Belt appeal<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>He is, as Trump likes to say, a vice president out of central casting, tall and athletic, wearing a dark suit and navy tie.<\/p>\n<p>What presumably appealed to Trump even more was Vance&#8217;s potential appeal to working-class voters in the Rust Belt. Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin were famously dubbed the &#8220;Blue Wall&#8221; because their reliable support gave Democratic presidential contenders an edge in the Electoral College.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"600\" outstream=\"\" momentum=\"\"><\/partner-banner><media-image image-set=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2024\/07\/17\/USAT\/74443837007-usatsi-23757720.jpg bestCrop, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2024\/07\/17\/USAT\/74443837007-usatsi-23757720.jpg?crop=3823,2867,x0,y0 4:3, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2024\/07\/17\/USAT\/74443837007-usatsi-23757720.jpg?crop=2151,2867,x0,y0 3:4, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2024\/07\/17\/USAT\/74443837007-usatsi-23757720.jpg?crop=4300,2419,x0,y224 16:9\" image-alt=\"\" credit=\"Mark Hoffman \/ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Mark Hoffman \/ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel \/ USA TODAY NETWORK\" caption=\"Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance waves from the family box during the second day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum. The second day of the RNC focused on crime and border policies.\" orientation=\"horizontal\" class=\"spacer-large\" util-module-path=\"elements\/media\"><\/media-image><\/p>\n<p>When Trump carried all three states in 2016, he won the White House. When Democrat Joe Biden flipped all three back in 2020, Trump lost his bid for reelection. This time, winning back that trio of states is clearly Vance&#8217;s Job One.<\/p>\n<p>Besides his home states of Ohio and Kentucky, they were the only other states he mentioned by name.<\/p>\n<p>Vance cited the economic travails of &#8220;the auto worker in Michigan,&#8221; &#8220;the factory worker in Wisconsin&#8221; and the &#8220;energy worker in Pennsylvania and Ohio, who doesn&#8217;t understand why Joe Biden is willing to buy energy from tinpot dictators across the world when he could buy it from his own citizens right here in this country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He blamed trade deals with Mexico and China with costing the United States good-paying manufacturing jobs \u2212 deals he noted Biden supported as a senator. He criticized the &#8220;disastrous&#8221; war in Iraq. (The commander-in-chief then was a Republican, George W. Bush, but Vance&#8217;s point was that Biden had supported it as a senator.)<\/p>\n<p><media-gallery-promo asset-id=\"8278141001\" class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-large\"><\/media-gallery-promo><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I grew up in Middletown, Ohio, a small town where people spoke their minds, built with their hands, and loved their God, family, community, and country with their whole hearts,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But it was also a place that had been cast aside and forgotten by America\u2019s ruling class in Washington.&#8221;<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"><\/partner-banner>\n<p>The first joint rally with Trump and Vance is set for Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>In Grand Rapids, Michigan.<\/p>\n<partner-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" placement=\"native-article_link\" sizes=\"[[300, 250], [3, 3]]\" min-height=\"250\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"><\/partner-inline>\n<h2 class=\"presto-h2 wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"JD_Vance_who\"><\/span>JD Vance who?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Most Americans, 60% of them, said they didn&#8217;t know enough about Vance to have an opinion of him, good or bad.<\/p>\n<p>His favorable rating in an AP\/NORC Poll taken just before he was picked was just 22%, but his unfavorable rating was even lower, at 17%.<\/p>\n<p>That made the first glimpse most voters have of him particularly important because in politics, as in life, you don&#8217;t get a second chance to make a first impression.<\/p>\n<p>The history of relatively obscure running mates has sometimes been problematic. In 1984, Democrat Rep. Geraldine Ferraro became enmeshed in controversy over her husband&#8217;s finances. In 1988, Republican Sen. Dan Quayle never entirely overcame the image of a lightweight set with his bouncing entrance when his name was announced.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"><\/partner-banner>\n<p>No surprise, then that Democrats im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely began to try to brand Vance in negative ways. &#8220;A rubber stamp&#8221; for Trump&#8217;s &#8220;extreme agenda,&#8221; Vice President Kamala Harris said in a campaign video.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just another MAGA Republican in the pocket of special interests,&#8221; a Democratic National Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> release said.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have spotlighted Vance&#8217;s support for a national ban on abortion and his opposition to aid for Ukraine in its war with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday night, Republicans were naturally trying to define him in positive ways, leaving abortion and Ukraine unmentioned. Vance also didn&#8217;t mention his early criticism of Trump, when he had called him &#8220;a total fraud,&#8221; before he became an avid convert to the former president and his agenda.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"><\/partner-banner>\n<p>He did show occasional flashes of humor, telling an anecdote about his blunt-spoken grandmother \u2212 &#8220;She could make a sailor blush,&#8221; he said \u2212 that prompted the crowd to chant &#8220;Grandma! Grandma!&#8221;<\/p>\n<partner-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" placement=\"native-article_link\" sizes=\"[[300, 250], [3, 3]]\" min-height=\"250\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"><\/partner-inline>\n<p>When he introduced his mother, &#8220;10 years clean and sober,&#8221; seated in the box that included Trump, the crowd chanted &#8220;JD&#8217;s mom! JD&#8217;s mom!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When he strode on stage, introduced by his wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance, the band played the country-music classic &#8220;America First&#8221; by Merle Haggard.<\/p>\n<p>When he finished, joined by a clutch of family members on stage, the band played &#8220;Don&#8217;t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow&#8221; \u2212 a song that just happened to be the signature of a Democratic president, Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"><\/partner-banner><lit-timestamp class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-small\" slot=\"timestamp\" publishdate=\"2024-07-18 03:39:29 +0000 UTC\" updatedate=\"2024-07-18 04:27:46 +0000 UTC\"><\/lit-timestamp><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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