Who is J.D. Vance, the VP pick of Trump?
The Wisconsin Tech Correspondence: J. D. Vance, the Silicon Valley Superpartner, and an Assassination by the Secret Service
Former President Donald Trump has announced Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate. Trump is expected to accept the Republican nomination on Thursday. Vance would serve as vice president if elected to office in November. Tech investor Peter Thiel had a connection to well-known Silicon Valley man, Vance.
The selection came on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee and just a couple days after Trump survived an attempted assassination at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. Trump said on Truth Social that a bullet pierced the upper part of his ear, and law enforcement confirmed one spectator died during the incident and two were critically injured. The FBI says that the person killed by the Secret Service was a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania.
After a close call, Trump called for unity, but returned to his usual rhetoric about legal “Witch Hunts” against him by the DOJ.
Up First: A Conversation with Vance about his Silicon Valley Investments and Trump’s 2022 Campaign for the Democratic National Convention (Newtown, Ohio)
Vance is no stranger to the world of tech and venture capital, and has long had connections in Silicon Valley. In 2020, he started an Ohio-based venture capital fund, Narya Capital. Billionaire and right-wing backer Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Eric Schmidt, and Scott Dorsey were all investors. He also worked for Thiel’s own fund, Mithril Capital, and Thiel also backed Vance’s successful 2022 senate run. In June, Vance attended a fundraising dinner for Trump, hosted by tech investor David Sacks.
In his Truth Social post announcing his selection, Donald Trump said that he had been in the Marine Corps and graduated from Ohio State University. Hillbilly Elegy, which was a memoir about his family and hometown of Middletown, Ohio, was later made into a film. Trump also pointed to Vance’s “very successful business career in Technology and Finance” and said during the campaign, he’d be focused on “the people he fought so brilliantly for, the American Workers and Farmers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, and far beyond….”
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