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CINCINNATI (WXIX) – Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance is returning to his hometown for a rally.
On July 22, Vance is set to host a “Hometown Rally” at Middletown High School at 1:30 p.m.
Doors open at 10:30 a.m. Tickets are available here.
The July 22 rally will come one week after former President Donald Trump announced Vance as his vice president for the 2024 election.
“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.”
Ohio has never had a current resident serve as vice president of the United States.
J.D. Vance Political Rise
From best-selling author to US senator, in just a few years Vance has made a quick rise to the top of the Republican party.
The 39-year-old who grew up in Butler County first entered the political arena when he ran for Rob Portman’s Senate seat in 2022.
Throughout much of his campaign, Vance was seen as a long shot until a last-minute endorsement from then-President Trump.
That endorsement came as a surprise because Vance previously criticized the president, once declaring himself “never a Trump guy.”
Vance walked back on his statements in 2021 and apologized.
He said he regretted his comments and praised the former president for his accomplishments during his time in the Oval Office.
Over the past three years, Vance has been one of Trump’s most vocal supporters, both in interviews and on social media.
Back in May, Vance organized a fundraiser luncheon for Trump in Indian Hill.
During his time in the Senate, Vance has embraced bipartisanship at times.
He worked with Ohio’s Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown to co-sponsor a railway safety bill following the train derailment in East Palestine.
Before becoming senator, Vance was best known for his book “Hillbilly Elegy,” which he says was based on growing up in Butler County in poverty surrounded by addiction and violence.
The book was made into a Netflix movie directed by Ron Howard and starring Glenn Close and Amy Adams.
Vance left Middletown to join the Marines after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and served in the Iraq War.
He attended The Ohio State University and Yale Law School.
Vance has worked as a corporate attorney in both tech and venture capitalism.
He was a venture capitalist working with several Silicon Valley companies and investors, working alongside tech investor and billionaire Peter Theil, one of Trump’s biggest donors in the 2016 presidential race.
After spending several years in San Francisco, Vance now lives on Cincinnati’s east side with his wife and their three children.
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