It’s hard to overstate how instrumental and influential Usha Chilukuri Vance, wife of GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance, has been in helping shape Vance into the man he is today, according to his memoir “Hillbilly Elegy.” Now that Vance is the GOP nominee for vice president, she could become the second lady of the
JD Vance’s career has followed a classic American rags-to-riches trajectory: After growing up in poverty in rural Ohio, he was accepted at an Ivy League university, finished a law degree, and leveraged his new connections into wealth and a seat in the U.S. Senate. While that part of Vance’s biography may be familiar to voters,
President Biden’s reelection team and his party are resuming campaigning and counterprogramming to the GOP convention this week, after a brief pause in advertising and “outbound communications” in light of Saturday’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. While Mr. Biden postponed a planned speech Monday in Austin, Texas, he is keeping a scheduled campaign
Sen. Bob Menendez, a powerful New Jersey Democrat, was convicted Tuesday in a sprawling bribery scheme in which he was accused of selling out his office for lucrative bribes, including cash and gold bars. A federal jury convicted Menendez on all 16 felony counts after prosecutors portrayed him as the puppet-master of a complex bribery
Former President Donald Trump’s selection of Ohio GOP Sen. JD Vance to be his running mate shows one thing remains constant, even in a presidential race upended by an attempt to assassinate one candidate and doubts about whether the other is fit to run: money in presidential politics is still king. Vance, a relative newcomer to
Washington — Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin said he delivered an earlier version of his speech on the opening night of the Republican National Convention, which was written before the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump. During his remarks, Johnson condemned Democrats’ policies as a “clear and present danger to America, to our institutions,
Washington — Donald Trump selected Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, a former detractor and now staunch ally, to be his running mate during the first day of the Republican National Convention on Monday, following months of speculation about who would accompany the former president on the GOP ticket. The 39-year-old senator was first elected in