Trump chooses J.D. Vance of Ohio as his running mate.

  The former president named  J.D.  Vance,  an  Ohio  senator,  as  his running mate and  vice  president  if he returns to the White  House.
 
  Born  in Middletown, Ohio in 1984, Vance comes from a white,  working-class  family  of  mostly  Scots-Irish  descent.  He was raised by his maternal grandparents in the once-booming  mining  region  of  Appalachia,  now one of the  poorest  areas  in  the  country.
 
  Vance joined the Marines for four years and served in Iraq before  attending  Ohio State University, where he  earned  degrees in political science and  philosophy.
 
  From there, he attended Yale Law  School  and then wrote  his  best-selling  memoir, Hillbilly Elegy,  which  some  critics  have  described as  a window into  an  often-overlooked  conservative white working  class.
 
  In 2017, Vance  returned  to Ohio from California, where he had  worked  in  biotechnology,  and  started  his own venture capital  firm  with  the  backing  of  PayPal founder Peter Thiel, a sometime libertarian and  a  rare Republican in Silicon  Valley. 
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  In early 2021, Thiel  donated  $10m (£8m) to a committee seeking to recruit Vance as a Senate  candidate. 
 
  When  Vance joined the race, he abruptly changed his tone  on  Trump, apologising for previously calling him  "reprehensible"  and even repeating the  president's  false claims of voter fraud in the 2020  election
 
  With  Trump's  backing,  he  secured  the Senate seat and has since become an influential voice in  Washington. 

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