Trump chooses homophobic senator as vice presidential candidate
J.D. Vance, 39, Donald Trump's pick for vice president, has only been a U.S. senator for a year and a half, but that's been long enough to amass a history of homophobic and transphobic statements. A Republican, Vance was elected to the Senate in 2022 from Ohio and was sworn in a year later. He is also known as the author of the 2016 best-selling Hillbilly Elegy, a memoir about growing up as a small-town teenager in Middletown, which was made into the Netflix feature film Hillbilly Elegy (2020).