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House Speaker Mike Johnson channels his inner dad energy as he excitedly takes video of Vice President JD VanceFirst time in the Oval Office. Speakers not only celebrated the occasion but also referenced Vance’s background, saying his story “could only happen in America.”
Johnson wrote in the post: “Yesterday, when we were meeting at the White House, J.D. Vance mentioned to us that he had never visited the Oval Office before. I told him and President Trump that I had to Capture the moment on video. “Only in the United States can a hard-working young man from Appalachia rise from humble beginnings to serve as Vice President of the United States for the first time.”
Republican lawmakers meet with President Trump, Vice President Vance to advance agenda
Vance (from left), President Donald Trump and Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Emancipation Hall of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Alexander Drago/Chi, via Reuters)
Vance’s background took center stage on the campaign trail, with Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, then-Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, joking that no one in his town went to Yale. Vance earned his law degree there.
“Now, I grew up in Butte, Nebraska, which is a small town of 400 people. There were 24 kids in my high school class, and none of them went to Yale,” Walz said at the Democratic National Rep. said in a speech at the conference.
The Trump campaign quickly criticized Walz’s comments on social media, calling them a “bizarre move.”
Vance (left) takes the oath of office in the presence of his wife Usha Vance during the 60th Presidential Inaugural Ceremony in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, Monday, January 20, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/AP Pool Photo)
Who is Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance?
Before being selected as President Donald Trump’s running mate, Vance served as an Ohio senator after winning the seat in 2022. However, in 2016 the current Vice President published his book “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of Family and Culture in Crisis” In the book, he details his challenging upbringing in Middletown, Ohio.
Surrounded by poverty and battling his mother’s addiction, Vance found a chance for change through his own efforts.
In 2020, years after the memoir was published, it was adapted into a Netflix film directed by Ron Howard and starring Glenn Close and Amy Adams. Hillbilly Elegy was critically panned, and both Close and Adams turned it down. Recently, on “The View,” Close praised the vice president’s “very generous family.”
Vance and Trump watched from an Inauguration Day rally. (Reuters/Mike Seeger)
Vance’s mother, Beverly Akins, has been sober for ten years. Aikins spoke briefly to the crowd at Ohio State’s inaugural ball in Washington, D.C., on Sunday night. She told the crowd it was the 10th anniversary of her official sobriety and her birthday the next day, as well as her son’s inauguration. Cincinnati.com reports.
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Vance returned to his hometown for a rally at Middletown High School, where he graduated in 2003. The then-candidate told the crowd that the town had “been great to me” and that he was “proud” to be from Middletown.
