Former President Donald Trump announced Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his 2024 running mate on Monday.
The much-anticipated moment occurred just as Trump was being formally nominated as the Republican presidential nominee at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Trump announced on Truth Social:
After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio. J.D. honorably served our Country in the Marine Corps, graduated from Ohio State University in two years, Summa Cum Laude, and is a Yale Law School Graduate, where he was Editor of The Yale Law Journal, and President of the Yale Law Veterans Association. J.D.’s book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” became a Major Best Seller and Movie, as it championed the hardworking men and women of our Country. J.D. has had a very successful business career in Technology and Finance, and now, during the Campaign, will be strongly focused on the people he fought so brilliantly for, the American Workers and Farmers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, and far beyond….
Vance, 39, began serving as an Ohio senator in 2023. He is a Marine veteran and a Yale University graduate, and widely seen as the heir apparent to the America First movement ushered in by Trump’s election in 2016.
The urgency to choose a vice presidential candidate was underscored by the assassination attempt on Trump on Saturday.
Other frontrunners for the position included Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and North Dakota Doug Bergum (R).
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