From being of the opinion that “we should never support Trump,” he has now become Trump’s running mate in the next presidential election. J.D. Vance We stand ready to support the former 45th President’s “Make America Great Again” campaign.
James David Vance was born on August 2, 1984, in Middletown, Ohio. The 39-year-old enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps straight out of high school and served as a combat correspondent. JD grew up in a family faced with poverty, low-paying jobs, and drug abuse, all of which he chronicles in his memoir.
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis.
The politician gave readers a glimpse into his life growing up and how he witnessed a lot of problems. “I was like a lot of kids growing up in this environment. I wasn’t doing particularly well in school and I started turning to drugs and alcohol,” he said. Interview with the Hoover Institution 2016.
“We weren’t living a peaceful life in a small nuclear family; we were living a chaotic life with a large group of aunts, uncles, grandparents and cousins,” he wrote in his memoir.
James reflected that the reason his culture fell victim to opioid addiction was economics. Channel 4 News In 2016, “the economy of this region [Kentucky] “This region has been really hit hard. You know, these regions relied on coal mines and steel mills and other manufacturing industries that are no longer there, or at least not there on the scale necessary to support the local economy. So people have lost their jobs, they’ve lost hope. And I think in some ways people are turning to other habits and other things to dull the pain.”
“That’s a big part of the reason for the opioid crisis. It’s not just people who like drugs or want to get addicted to drugs. We’re really looking for ways to do something to ease the pain that comes with living in a really deprived neighborhood.”