Who is JD Vance, Trump’s running mate who has already compared him to Hitler

Troubled youth became an autobiographical book and film. The work “Hillbilly Elegy” was adapted by Netflix under the title “Once upon a dream”, in Portuguese. JD and his older sister were raised by their mother, who suffered from drug addiction, and their maternal grandparents. He presents his grandmother, nicknamed Mamaw, as his great savior, as “her love and discipline kept him on the right path.”

2023 Ohio Senator. After gaining fame with the book, he gained space on the American right, being seen as a prodigy defender of conservative values. In 2022, he won the Republican primaries and became a candidate for the Ohio Senate. He won 53% of the votes and was elected.

He changed his name after paternal abandonment. JD was registered as “James Donald Bowman”, but decided to use his maternal surname after being abandoned by his biological father.

He compared Trump to Adolf Hitler. Democratic state representative Josh McLaurin, Vance’s former roommate, released a screenshot of an alleged message received from the Republican. “I waver between thinking that Trump might be a cynical asshole like Nixon, who wouldn’t be so bad (and might even be helpful), or that he might be America’s Hitler.” In 2016, JD called the former president an “idiot”, “harmful” and “reprehensible” in a post published on Twitter and Facebook. The text was unearthed by social media users.