It was November 2016 and the ballroom at Miami Valley Gaming was nearly empty, except for a few wait staff members filing water glasses and organizers checking reservations and table assignments.

Peter Thiel dropped $3.5M to help transphobic candidate JD Vance win the Ohio GOP primary The Hillibilly Elegy author, a ...

Peter Thiel. For 39-year-old Vance, the now-Ohio senator picked by Donald Trump on Monday to be his running mate in the ...

Born James Donald Bowman in Middletown, Ohio, JD Vance grew up in the Rust Belt and ... Vance worked at a venture capital ...

J.D. Vance (Ohio), Donald Trump's running mate ... get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the ...

JD Vance wrote about meeting his wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance, as a Yale Law School student in "Hillbilly Elegy." ...