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35. HE SPOKE IN SUPPORT OF THE 2023 UNITED AUTO WORKERS STRIKE
Mr. Vance has spoken supportively of the 2023 United Auto Workers strike.
Elsewhere, he’s said he supports collective bargaining “as an abstract matter.”
36. HE’S CRITICAL OF THE IRAQ WAR
Though he served in the Iraq War, Mr. Vance has since been critical of the conflict, saying he made a “mistake” in initially supporting it.
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“I served my country honorably, and I saw when I went to Iraq that I had been lied to, that the promises of the foreign policy establishment of this country were a complete joke,” he said on the Senate floor in April.
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34. HE WANTS ABORTION LEFT TO THE STATES
Mr. Vance has indicated he supports leaving abortion to the states.
He said that former President Trump’s “leave it to the states approach” is “pragmatic,” and endorsed the Supreme Court decision allowing mifepristone to continue being shipped.
In 2022, Mr. Vance expressed support for Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) 15-week abortion ban.
In an interview that same year, Mr. Vance said, “I'd like it to be primarily a state issue.”
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He also worked with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on a bill to claw-back executive pay from
large failed banks.
Neither of the bills has advanced to a vote on the Senate floor.
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32. HE SERVES ON 3 SENATE PANELS
In the Senate he serves on the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee; the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee; and the Special Committee on Aging.
33. HE HAS A HOLD ON ALL DOJ APPOINTMENTS
In June 2023, Mr. Vance announced that he would use his power as a senator to place holds on all future nominees to the Department of Justice.
He cited the department’s prosecutions against the former president as the reason for the hold.
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The political arm of the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation rates Mr. Vance as voting with conservative positions 93 percent of the time.
31. HE HAS WORKED ACROSS THE AISLE ON LEGISLATION
Mr. Vance has shown a willingness to work with Democrats on some major pieces of legislation.
He and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) co-sponsored a rail safety bill following the derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
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28. HE WAS DONALD TRUMP JR.’S PICK
Mr. Vance developed a relationship with former President Trump’s oldest son during his 2022 Senate campaign, when the younger Trump campaigned for him.
Since then, Mr. Trump has signaled that he favored Mr. Vance in the “veepstakes.”
In a recent podcast episode, Mr. Trump said, “everyone knows, I’ve sort of been for J.D. Vance.”
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29 HE’S BEEN IN THE SENATE SINCE JANUARY 2023
Mr. Vance has been in politics just over a year and a half, joining the Senate
—his first political office—
in January 2023.
30. HE HAS A CONSERVATIVE VOTING RECORD
Since joining the Senate, Mr. Vance has regularly voted with the most conservative wing of the Senate Republican conference on an array of key issues, from foreign aid to government finance.
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26. HE VOTED FOR TRUMP IN 2020
Given how his views had changed in the four years since 2016, Mr. Vance voted for President Trump in 2020.
27. HE WON A TOUGH PRIMARY IN A CROWDED FIELD
Mr. Vance won the 2022 GOP Senate primary amid a crowded field in Ohio to succeed retiring Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio).
Boosted by former President Trump’s endorsement, he defeated former Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel and Ohio state Sen. Matt Dolan.
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23. HE WAS A CNN CONTRIBUTOR
Mr. Vance was a contributor for CNN back in 2017.
“This will be the first ever CNN commentator ever put on a presidential ticket,” CNN anchor Jake Tapper said on the air following the announcement of the pick.
24. HE WASN’T ALWAYS PRO-TRUMP
Years before being a staunch ally of former President Trump, Mr. Vance wrote an op-ed in the New York Times in which he called the former president “unfit for our nation’s highest office.”
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25. HIS VIEWS EVOLVED AFTER TRUMP TOOK OFFICE
Since 2016, Mr. Vance said his views on the former president have changed, and he’s recanted his statements from 2016.
The reason for this, he said, was seeing how former President Trump handled the job.
In a May interview with CNN, he told anchor Dana Bash, “I didn’t think he was going to be a good president, Dana, and I was very, very proud to be proven wrong. It’s one of the reasons why I’m working so hard to get him elected.”
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21. HE WAS A VENTURE CAPITALIST
Mr. Vance started Narya, brd in Ohio, an “early-stage venture capital firm focused on using technology and science to solve for the future,” according to its website.
22. HE’S SPONSORED PROGRAMS TO COMBAT DRUG ADDICTION
In 2016, Mr. Vance left California and returned to Ohio, where he helped launch an effort to combat opioid abuse in the state.
Called “Our Ohio Renewal,” the project was short-lived, and the online domain for the website is no longer accessible
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17. HE HAS A DUAL UNDERGRAD DEGREE FROM OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
Mr. Vance has a dual undergraduate degree in political science and philosophy from Ohio State University. He graduated summa cum laude in 2009.
18. HE EARNED A J.D. FROM YALE LAW SCHOOL
Mr. Vance earned a juris doctorate from Yale Law School in 2013. While there, he met law professor Amy Chua, who persuaded him to write his memoir. Ms. Chua is known for her own best-selling memoir “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.”
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19. HE WAS AN EDITOR OF THE YALE LAW JOURNAL
While studying law, Mr. Vance served on the editorial staff of the Yale Law Journal.
20. HE’S CLOSE WITH PETER THIEL
After graduating from Yale Law School, Mr. Vance worked at the law firm Sidley Austin LLP before joining billionaire Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital in San Francisco.
Mr. Thiel later spent more than $10 million in support of Mr. Vance during his 2022 Senate run.
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16. HE’S A MARINE CORPS. IRAQ COMBAT VET
Mr. Vance served in Iraq as a Marine combat correspondent during the mid-2000s.
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15. HIS GRANDPARENTS WERE DEMOCRATS
Like many in the Rust Belt of the late 20th century, Mr. Vance’s grandparents were pro-union Democrats.
Mr. Vance describes their attitude toward politics in “Hillbilly Elegy,” writing, “All politicians might be crooks, but if there were any exceptions, they were undoubtedly members of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal coalition.”
Mr. Vance said the exception was 1984, when his grandfather voted for President Ronald Reagan.
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