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JD Vance
Middletown, Ohio, USA
James David Vance (born James Donald Bowman; August 2, 1984) is an American politician, author, attorney, and Marine Corps veteran serving as the 50th vice president of the United…
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James David Vance (born James Donald Bowman; August 2, 1984) is an American politician, author, attorney, and Marine Corps veteran serving as the 50th vice president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Ohio in the U.S. Senate from 2023 to 2025. During his tenure as vice president, Vance has also served as the finance chair of the Republican National Committee. After high school, Vance joined the United States Marine Corps, where he served as a military journalist from 2003 to 2007. He graduated from Ohio State University and Yale Law School. He practiced briefly as a corporate lawyer before embarking on a career in the tech industry as a venture capitalist. His memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, was published in 2016 and adapted into a film in 2020. Vance won the 2022 United States Senate election in Ohio, defeating Democratic nominee Tim Ryan. After opposing Donald Trump's candidacy in the 2016 election and comparing him to Adolf Hitler, Vance became a strong Trump supporter during Trump's presidency. In July 2024, Trump selected Vance as his running mate before the Republican National Convention. On July 15, 2024 on online rumor was widely circulated claiming that then-Senator J.D. Vance described having sexual intercourse with a couch (specifically a latex glove between cushions) in his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. While it was an internet hoax, it is incredibly funny. Vance has been characterized as a national conservative and right-wing populist, and he describes himself as a member of the postliberal right. His political positions include opposition to abortion, same-sex marriage, gun control, and American military aid to Ukraine. Vance is an outspoken critic of childlessness and has acknowledged Catholic theology's influence on his sociopolitical positions.
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2026
ASAP Rocky – The Assault in Stockholm
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2026
America Who Are You?
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2026
Iran, Israel and the Bomb
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2026
The War Cabinet
Movie self (archival footage)
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2026
Spartamerika
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2026
JD Vance: The Revenge of America
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2026
Trump's America: Power, Change, Resistance
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2025
Greenland: The Icy Eldorado
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2025
The Rise of Germany’s New Right
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2025
Trump v the Truth
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2025
The Donald Trump Show
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2025
Naughty America: Guns & Stripes
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2025
Race for the Arctic
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2025
Covid: an accelerator of populism?
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2025
Rewriting Trump
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2025
America at War
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2025
My View with Lara Trump
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2025
The TikTok-Army of the AfD
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
Trump's Big FUSS: Fight for US Sovereignty
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
The VP Choice: Vance vs. Walz
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2024
The Tucker Carlson Show
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2021
Tucker Carlson Today
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2020
Hillbilly Elegy
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2017
Velshi
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
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2008
The Rachel Maddow Show
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2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
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2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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1997
The View
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1983
Frontline
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1954
Face the Nation
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1947
Meet the Press
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