The Latest Breaking News from JD Vance

Contradiction, writes JD Vance, in his bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy, has been a hallmark of his life and of his people for generations. Becoming the vice-presidential running mate for Donald Trump, the man he once called ‘America’s Hitler’, is just the latest example, writes Sheila Flynn

Meyers calls J.D. Vance and Mike Collins "opportunistic purveyors of paranoia, suspicion and fear"

America’s potential future vice president topped bestseller lists with his 2016 memoir, a tale of multi-generational, cyclical poverty in Appalachia. Nick Hilton looks back on what the politician argued in the book, from his criticisms of welfare to his belief that the working classes ‘spend our way into the poorhouse’

Trumpism, not Reaganism, is the doctrine of the Grand Old Party for the foreseeable future.

Vance’s record shows ‘pattern of prioritizing fossil fuel interests’ over the climate crisis, environmentalist says

Watch as delegates arrive for day two of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Tuesday, 16 July.

If JD Vance is sworn in as Donald Trump’s vice-president on January 20, 2025, he will, at 40 years and five months, be the youngest occupant of that office since Richard Nixon in 1953, and the third youngest in US history.

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In his journey from self-help author to Republican courtier, JD Vance may find the presidential candidate just as fickle as he is, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde