Vance was a critic of Donald Trump during the 2016 election, becoming a member of the Never Trump movement, but changed his rhetoric after announcing his candidacy for the Senate. During his tenure in the Senate, he has been a staunch Trump loyalist and defender of Trump's assertions.[4]
Early life and education
James David Vance was born on August 2, 1984, in Middletown, Ohio, between Cincinnati and Dayton, as James Donald Bowman, the son of Donald Bowman and Bev Vance. Of Scots-Irish descent,[5][3][6][7] his mother and father divorced when Vance was a toddler. Shortly afterward, he was adopted by his mother's third husband.[5] Vance and his sister were raised primarily by his grandparents, James and Bonnie Vance, whom they called "Mamaw and Papaw."[6][8][9][10] J. D. later went by the name James Hamel, his stepfather's surname, until adopting his grandparents' surname, Vance.[11]
In December 2016, Vance indicated that he planned to move to Ohio to start a nonprofit, potentially run for office,[24] and work on combating drug addiction in the Rust Belt.[2]
In 2017, Vance joined Revolution LLC, an investment firm founded by AOL cofounder Steve Case, as an investment partner, where he was tasked with expanding the "Rise of the Rest" initiative, which focuses on growing investments in under-served regions outside the Silicon Valley and New York City tech bubbles.[25]
In January 2017, Vance became a CNN contributor.[26] In April 2017, Ron Howard signed on to direct a film version of Hillbilly Elegy, which Netflix released in 2020, and which starred Owen Asztalos and Gabriel Basso as Vance.[27]
In 2019, Vance co-founded Narya Capital in Cincinnati, with financial backing from Thiel, Eric Schmidt, and Marc Andreessen.[28] In 2020, he raised $93 million for the firm.[29] With Thiel and former Trump adviser Darren Blanton, Vance has invested in the Canadian online video platformRumble, popular among those on the right.[30][31]
In early 2018, Vance reportedly considered running for U.S. Senate against Sherrod Brown,[32] but decided not to.[33] In March 2021, Peter Thiel gave $10 million to Protect Ohio Values, a super PAC created in February to support a potential Vance candidacy;[34][35][36]Robert Mercer also gave an undisclosed amount.[34] In April, Vance expressed interest in running for the Senate seat being vacated by Republican Rob Portman.[37] In May, he launched an exploratory committee.[38]
In July 2021, Vance officially entered the race;[39] it was his first campaign for public office.[40] On May 3, 2022, he won the Republican primary with 32% of the vote,[41] defeating multiple candidates, including Josh Mandel (23%) and Matt Dolan (22%).[42] In the general election on November 8, Vance defeated Democratic nominee Tim Ryan with 53.1% of the vote to Ryan's 46.9%.[43]
Tenure
Vance was sworn in to the U.S. Senate on January 3, 2023, as a member of the 118th United States Congress. He is the first U.S. senator from Ohio to take office without holding previous government experience since John Glenn, who took office in 1974.
Vance has gained significant media attention for his response to the 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.[44][45][46] He was criticized for a delayed response to the derailment, with an official statement from his office released on February 13. Vance and others countered that he had responded to the derailment the day after it occurred, sooner than fellow Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown.[47][48]
On February 26, Vance wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post supporting the provision of PPP style funds to those affected by the derailment, which some Republican senators criticized.[49][50] On March 1, Vance, Brown, and Senators John Fetterman, Bob Casey, Josh Hawley, and Marco Rubio proposed legislation to prevent another rail derailment like the one in East Palestine.[51][52] The bill has received bipartisan Senate support.[53]
Committee assignments
For the 117th United States Congress, Vance was named to three Senate committees.[54] They are:
Vance opposes abortion, and he has indicated that he may support a federal ban on abortions after 15 weeks. He has also said that abortion laws can be set by the states.[56][57] When asked whether abortion laws should include exceptions for rape and incest, he said, "two wrong[s] don't make a right."[58]
Vance opposes the Respect for Marriage Act[59][60] and has said, "I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman, but I don't think the gay marriage issue is alive right now. I'm not one of these guys who's looking to try to take people's families and rip them apart."[61]
Vance has proposed a bill that would make gender-affirming care for minors a federal felony and block taxpayer funds from being used for it, saying in a statement, "Under no circumstances should doctors be allowed to perform these gruesome, irreversible operations on underage children."[62]
Immigration and border security
Vance once admonished Trump for demonizing immigrants, but has repeatedly called the effects of illegal immigration "dirty".[63][64] He has supported Trump's proposal for a wall along the southern border and rejected the idea that advocates for the border wall are racist. He has also proposed spending $3 billion to finish Trump's wall.[65][66] In 2022, he told Tucker Carlson that Democrats "have decided that they can't win reelection in 2022 unless they bring a large number of new voters to replace the voters that are already here."[67] This led to political opponent Tim Ryan's allegations that Vance was endorsing the white supremacistGreat Replacement conspiracy theory, according to which there is an effort to replace white Americans with immigrants.[68][67] During his 2022 U.S. Senate campaign, Vance said that President Joe Biden was flooding Ohio with illegal drugs by not enforcing security at the southern border,[69] a claim The New York Times called "blatantly false".[70]
Vance is a vocal critic of U.S. military aid to Ukraine in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War. He has said it is in America's interest to accept that "Ukraine is going to have to cede some territory to the Russians".[73] Vance has faced bipartisan criticism for his views on Ukraine. In December 2023, he was criticized for calling for the suspension of further aid to Ukraine because he said it would be used so its ministers "can buy a bigger yacht".[74]
Vance supports U.S. funding to Israel in the ongoing Israel-Hamas War.[75] When asked whether he would support military action against Iran after militias allegedly connected to Iran attacked U.S. troops, Vance said that it would be a "mistake", citing concern it would be a significant escalation.[76][77]
Childlessness, divorce, and domestic abuse
In a 2021 speech to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Vance blamed "the childless left" for America's woes. He praised far-right Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban for encouraging married couples to have children, and said that parents should "have a bigger say in how democracy functions" than non-parents.[78]
In September 2021, while speaking at Pacifica Christian High School in California, Vance said, "This is one of the great tricks that I think the sexual revolution pulled on the American populace, which is the idea that, like, 'well, OK, these marriages were fundamentally, you know, they were maybe even violent, but certainly they were unhappy. And so getting rid of them and making it easier for people to shift spouses like they change their underwear, that's going to make people happier in the long term.'"[79]Vice wrote that Vance "seemed to suggest that in some cases, 'even violent' marriages should continue." In response to Vice, Vance claimed that rates of domestic violence had "skyrocketed" in recent years due to what he called "modern society's war on families". In recent decades, rates of domestic violence have decreased.[80][81] A strategist for Vance called Vice's characterization misleading and said Vance does not support people staying in abusive relationships.[82]
Antitrust laws
Vance has expressed concern that large tech companies have too much influence in politics and the flow of information and has called to "break up" Google, as well as implying he believes Meta should be split up.[83][84] He has called Federal Trade Commission (FTC)Chair Lina Khan a Biden administration member who is "doing a pretty good job", citing her antitrust enforcement against tech firms.[83][85] Vance and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse introduced the Stop Subsidizing Giant Mergers Act, which would end tax-free treatment for corporate mergers and acquisitions of companies above a certain threshold.[86][87]
Vance has supported protectionist reforms. He has advocated imposing tariffs on China[89] and proposed a bill to remove China’s most favored nation status.[90]
Climate change and the environment
Vance has downplayed the effects of climate change. In response to a radio host who asserted there was no climate crisis, Vance said, "No, I don't think there is, either."[91] He has said, "If you think that man-made climate change is a catastrophic problem, the solution for it is for us to produce more of our own energy, including fossil fuels, here in the United States", implying that outsourcing energy production would cause more pollution.[92] Vance has also argued that environmental regulations have caused a large number of manufacturing jobs to be outsourced to other countries.[93] He has proposed a bill that would repeal certain tax credits created by the Inflation Reduction Act for electric vehicles and would create a $7,500 tax credit for gas-powered cars manufactured in the U.S.[94]
Relationship with Donald Trump
During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Vance was an outspoken critic of Republican nominee Donald Trump. In a February 2016 USA Today column, he wrote that "Trump's actual policy proposals, such as they are, range from immoral to absurd."[95] In the Atlantic and on the PBS show hosted by Charlie Rose,[96] Vance called Trump "cultural heroin"[97] and "an opioid of the masses."[98][99] In October 2016, he called Trump "reprehensible" in a post on Twitter,[100] and called himself a "never-Trump guy."[101] In a private message on Facebook he called Trump "America's Hitler".[102]
By February 2018, Vance began changing his opinion, saying Trump "is one of the few political leaders in America that recognizes the frustration that exists in large parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, eastern Kentucky and so forth".[103]
Vance supported Trump in 2020.[104] In July 2021, he apologized for calling Trump "reprehensible" and deleted posts from 2016 from his Twitter account that were critical of him.[105][106] Vance said that he now thought Trump was a good president and expressed regret about his criticism during the 2016 election.[100] Vance visited Mar-a-Lago to meet with Trump and Peter Thiel ahead of an official announcement regarding his U.S. Senate campaign.[37]
On April 15, 2022, Trump endorsed Vance for U.S. Senate.[101] On April 18, Vance's former law school roommate, politician Josh McLaurin, leaked private messages that Vance had sent him in 2016 in which Vance questioned whether Trump would become another "cynical asshole" like Richard Nixon or "America's Hitler."[108] Vance also stated his intention to vote for independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin in the 2016 presidential election.[100]
After historian Robert Kagan wrote a November 2023 Washington Post opinion piece titled "A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending", Vance wrote Attorney General Merrick Garland a letter suggesting Kagan be prosecuted for promoting "open rebellion" by Democrat-controlled states. Kagan said that his piece did not advocate rebellion and remarked, "It is revealing that their first instinct when attacked by a journalist is to suggest that they be locked up."[109][110]
Labor unions
Vance has said, "As an abstract matter, yes, I support collective bargaining."[111] But he opposes the PRO Act, which expands protections related to employees' rights to organize and collectively bargain, instead voicing support for proposals by the conservative group American Compass, which includes workers' councils and sectoral bargaining.[112][113] Vance did speak in support the 2023 United Auto Workers strike.[114]
Personal life
Vance has been married to a former law school classmate, Usha Chilukuri Vance, since 2014. They have three children.[115] For much of his professional career, Vance and his family have lived in San Francisco, where they were active in community gardening.[116]
Vance was raised in a "conservative, evangelical" branch of Protestantism, but by September 2016, he was "thinking very seriously about converting to Catholicism" but was "not an active participant" in any particular religious denomination.[117] In August 2019, Vance was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church in a ceremony at St. Gertrude Priory in Cincinnati, Ohio. He chose Augustine of Hippo as his Confirmation saint. Vance said he converted because he "became persuaded over time that Catholicism was true", and described Catholic theology's influence on his political views.[118]
^Vance, J. D. (2017). Hillbilly Elegy. London: William Collins. p. 181. ISBN9780008220563. OCLC965479512. I took a job at the Ohio Statehouse, working for a remarkably kind senator from the Cincinnati area named Bob Schuler. He was a good man, and I liked his politics, so when constituents called and complained, I tried to explain his positions.
^Leonhardt, David (May 4, 2022). "A Trump Win in Ohio". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 10, 2022. Retrieved May 11, 2022. More recently, he has turned into a hard-edged conspiracist who claimed President Biden was flooding Ohio with illegal drugs — a blatantly false claim.
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