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JD Vance

ACTOR · BORN 1984

JD Vance

Born
2 August 1984

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JD Vance (born 2 August 1984) is a screenwriter.

10 Interesting Facts About JD Vance

Interesting Facts (6)

  1. #001

    After Vance helped spread the Springfield rumor, Trump repeated it during his first debate in front of more than 67 million viewers; the city then received bomb threats and had to evacuate schools and city hall.

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  2. #002

    JD Vance wrote the introduction to a 2017 Heritage Foundation report that called for a nationwide abortion ban and criticized IVF.

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  3. #003

    Vance endorsed a book that described progressives as "unhumans" and, according to Mother Jones colleague Noah Lanard, celebrates right-wing political violence and 20th-century dictators.

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  4. #004

    Vance opposed rape and incest exceptions to abortion bans, compared abortion to slavery, and said the Justice Department should use the 19th-century Comstock Act to criminalize "mail-order abortions."

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  5. #005

    Vance is helping Trump spread the false claim that Democrats were behind the two recent attempted assassinations of Trump; threat-assessment experts told Mother Jones's Mark Follman the claim could fuel further political violence.

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  6. #006

    Vance has suggested that childfree women should have less voting power than parents.

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Career & Awards (2)

  1. #007

    In 2016 he was one of Donald Trump's loudest critics, but he reversed course once he began his bid for a U.S. Senate seat from Ohio. During the first month of that campaign he set about retracting his anti-Trump statements and deleting every earlier post in which he had warned followers against a Trump presidency. Before Trump's endorsement, Vance was behind in the polls for the Republican nomination.

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  2. #008

    Before his 2022 Senate run, he generally appeared clean shaven in public; with the race he grew a beard, a visual marker of his new political career.

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Life & Family (2)

  1. #009

    He is known for often calling political opponents "childless cat ladies," arguing that without children they have no stake in the country's future. He first applied the phrase in 2021 to Kamala Harris, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Pete Buttigieg, though none of them matched the description: Harris has two stepchildren and no pets, Ocasio-Cortez owns only a French bulldog, and Buttigieg has a documented dog, two adopted children and is not a lady.

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  2. #010

    According to Wall Street Journal reporting, Vance helped spread the false claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating pets, even after local officials told his office the rumors were untrue.

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