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JD Vance became vice president-elect in November 2024; former President Donald Trump tapped him as a running mate July 15, 2024. Vance won the U.S. Senate race in Ohio in 2022. He worked as an investor, commentator and author of the bestselling 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy.”
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