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A comparison of vice-presidential candidates
Iowa County Republicans
Sep. 30, 2024 3:19 pm
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JD Vance was born Aug. 2, 1984 in Middletown, Ohio to Donald and Bev Vance. His parents were divorced when he was a toddler. He was then adopted by his step-dad, Bob Hamel, so he had to take his last name.
His mother again was divorced, and she was struggling with drug addiction most of Vance’s growing-up years. He was then raised by his grandparents.
Lots of summer vacations were spent with his great-grandparents in Jackson, Kentucky.
After graduating from Middletown school in 2003, Vance enlisted in the Marine Corps and served in Iraq as a corporal. After his enlistment was up he attended and graduated from Ohio State University with a degree in political science and philosophy before enrolling at Yale Law School in 2010.
He married Utha Chilukuri in 2014 and they are the proud parents of three children.
In 2016, Vance published his book “Hillbilly Elegy,” showing his life and how he worked hard to rise above. The book was made into a movie in November, 2020.
That same year, Vance won his senate race in Ohio. Since he is only 39 years old and really just starting his career, not much has been known about him. The people in Ohio that he represents like him.
Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota, allowed the riots in Minneapolis to go completely out of control. An entire police precinct burned and still not replaced, 120 building torched and $500 million in damage.
Highways were blocked, cars overturned, countless businesses broken into and looted or vandalized. Walz did not call in the National Guard or allow police to come in until it was too late.
Walz’s wife … left the windows open [to smell burning tires] for as long as she could while her husband did nothing for three or four days while blocks of stores were burned in Minneapolis.
Kamala Harris [supported] Black Lives Matter.
Democrats burned a lot of stores in Oregon at various times. Many stores have closed in California and other places because of the minimum wage that may have gone up to $20 per hour.
As a Minnesota Gov., Tim Walz says that you can start to transgender children with out parental consent but you can’t have a tattoo without parental consent under age of 18.
What Trump has been charged for is a lot less than what the Democrat candidates and the Bidens did and got away with.
Be careful of everything Kamala says. She is changing a lot of her policies, favoring what Trump says.
Remember, Biden said he was a president for all of the people, but immediately he signed off all of Trump’s policies instead of trying to make them better.
Trump attempted to fulfill all of his campaign promises, but the Democrats were impeaching all of the time he was in office, and they are still charging him with things since he is running for office.