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Milwaukee: Donald J Trump, the official Republican nominee for the presidency, picked 39-year old JD Vance, a first-time Senator from Ohio and a critic turned admirer of the former president, as his running mate for the 2024 elections on Monday.
In a post on Truth Social on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Trump said that after “lengthy deliberation and thought”, and considering the talent of others in the party, he had decided that Vance was best suited to become vice president.
Vance’s wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance, is of Indian-origin and grew up in San Diego. They met at Yale Law School and have three children. Both walked on to the convention floor on Monday evening and were greeted with cheer and applause.
If elected, Vance will be the third youngest vice president in American history. In 1857, John Breckinridge became VP at the age of 36, and in 1953, Richard Nixon got elected as Dwight Eisenhower when he was 40 years and 11 days old. Vance’s age introduces a new dimension in a race that has been marked by concerns around the age of President Joe Biden who is 81. Trump himself is 78, and if he wins, Vance will become the frontrunner to take on the leadership of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement that is t
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