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JD Vance is clear and away the best candidate. I read his autobiography, Hillbilly Elegy, and he is one tough cookie. He’s from a poor, white, working-class family that emigrated from Kentucky to Ohio to find work. He knows and admires these “hillbillies.” His mother is (or was) a drug addict addicted to pain killers and then heroin. He spent his childhood being bounced around as his mother, who appears to have been mentally unstable, had five husbands and numerous boyfriends. He didn’t always have a home and he spent his childhood trying to escape horrible family fights and breakdowns. His only stable influences were his grandparents who told him he could do anything and pushed him to study hard, not use drugs, and to stay in school.

He worked his way through college and then law school at Yale at times carrying a full academic load and working three jobs to pay his tuition. He resented people living off the dole who could afford expensive cellphones when he was practically broke working the night shift at a grocery store. He argues that intact families, a connection to a church, hard work, sobriety, and faithfulness to your spouse are the only ways to escape the poverty and despair he experienced.

Most recently, he ridiculed an FBI undercover agent who showed up at a Congressional hearing wearing a fake wig as her “disguise. He said if that’s the caliber of FBI agents, we are in real trouble.

He writes beautifully and is a very intelligent man. I recommend his autobiography to anyone on this forum. Once you read it and hear him argue the MAGA case against the MSM media types, you’ll know he should be the V.P. pick. He didn’t always support Trump, but he has recognized that Trump is on the right track and is now one of his strongest backers. He is a fighter and would wipe up the floor in any debate with Kamala. Add to it, he is a former Marine who says in his book how much he loves this country, how proud he is of it, and how people from his “culture” feel the same way.

It’s a wonderful book.