/tags/vice-president vice president en-US Copyright Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:03:22 GMT /politics-government/2025-01-16/jd-vances-ohio-hometown-struggles-with-how-to-recognize-the-incoming-vice-president Middletown, Ohio leaders eventually came to the kind of compromise that was either maddeningly bureaucratic or elegantly impartial, depending on one's perspective, but also the kind that has become increasingly rare in the bitter politics of the current moment. Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:03:22 GMT /politics-government/2025-01-16/jd-vances-ohio-hometown-struggles-with-how-to-recognize-the-incoming-vice-president Julie Carr Smyth - Associated Press /politics-government/2024-10-29/new-podcast-on-jd-vance-raises-questions-about-his-public-persona-and-reality The podcast is called "Elegy: The Many Myths of JD Vance." Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:14:59 GMT /politics-government/2024-10-29/new-podcast-on-jd-vance-raises-questions-about-his-public-persona-and-reality Debbie Holmes, Matthew Rand /politics-government/2024-10-01/politifact-prep-for-tuesday-nights-vice-presidential-debate-with-fact-checks PolitiFact has scrutinized more than a dozen recent statements from Vance and Walz since each man became his party’s VP nominee. Here’s how accurate their talking points have proven so far. Tue, 01 Oct 2024 14:04:28 GMT /politics-government/2024-10-01/politifact-prep-for-tuesday-nights-vice-presidential-debate-with-fact-checks PolitiFact /politics-government/2024-09-30/vance-exuded-calm-during-a-tense-debate-stage-moment-can-he-keep-it-up-when-he-faces-walz If history is any indicator, viewers can expect JD Vance to criticize Tuesday’s moderators, CBS’ Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan, while the debate is underway. Since becoming Trump’s running mate, Vance has been the Trump campaign’s highest-profile attack dog and a fixture on weekend news programs — where he often pushes back at hosts and calls them out by name. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:31:19 GMT /politics-government/2024-09-30/vance-exuded-calm-during-a-tense-debate-stage-moment-can-he-keep-it-up-when-he-faces-walz Julie Carr Smyth - Associated Press /politics-government/2024-09-10/jd-vance-spreads-debunked-claims-about-haitian-immigrants-eating-pets Local police say they've seen no evidence of crimes against pets alleged by Vance and GOP allies. The claims appear to have been spread by a neo-Nazi group before gaining a wider audience online. Tue, 10 Sep 2024 17:12:55 GMT /politics-government/2024-09-10/jd-vance-spreads-debunked-claims-about-haitian-immigrants-eating-pets Huo Jingnan, Jasmine Garsd /politics-government/2024-08-17/hillbilly-elegy-is-back-in-the-spotlight-these-appalachians-write-a-different-tale NPR spoke with Appalachian fiction and nonfiction writers about this moment and how they are building a tapestry of what they know as home. Sat, 17 Aug 2024 09:00:00 GMT /politics-government/2024-08-17/hillbilly-elegy-is-back-in-the-spotlight-these-appalachians-write-a-different-tale Clayton Kincade /politics-government/2024-08-16/beyond-childless-cat-ladies-jd-vance-has-long-been-on-a-quest-to-encourage-more-births Five summers ago, Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance — then a 34-year-old memoirist and father of a 2-year-old boy — took the stage at a conservative conference and tackled an issue that would become a core part of his political brand: the United States' declining fertility rate. Fri, 16 Aug 2024 18:17:30 GMT /politics-government/2024-08-16/beyond-childless-cat-ladies-jd-vance-has-long-been-on-a-quest-to-encourage-more-births The Associated Press /politics-government/2024-08-16/vp-nominee-jd-vance-to-dissolve-last-vestige-of-mothballed-charity-give-its-11k-to-appalachia Republican vice presidential nominee U.S. Sen. JD Vance is preparing to dissolve the vestiges of a charitable effort he launched in Ohio after publication of his best-selling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” the Trump-Vance campaign said. Fri, 16 Aug 2024 17:57:52 GMT /politics-government/2024-08-16/vp-nominee-jd-vance-to-dissolve-last-vestige-of-mothballed-charity-give-its-11k-to-appalachia The Associated Press /politics-government/2024-08-08/jd-vance-other-donald-trump-allies-amplify-a-false-claim-about-vp-kamala-harris-racial-identity Vance's was the most recent of the Republican criticisms of how Harris portrays herself, in the wake of Trump's comments last week to the National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago. Thu, 08 Aug 2024 16:29:31 GMT /politics-government/2024-08-08/jd-vance-other-donald-trump-allies-amplify-a-false-claim-about-vp-kamala-harris-racial-identity The Associated Press /show/all-sides/2024-08-07/how-important-are-running-mates-during-a-presidential-election Current VP and presumed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris announced Tuesday that her running mate for the November presidential election will be Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Ohio Sen. JD Vance is the vice presidential candiadate for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Wed, 07 Aug 2024 09:00:00 GMT /show/all-sides/2024-08-07/how-important-are-running-mates-during-a-presidential-election