VentureBeat July 15, 2024
Taking to his social network Truth Social, just days after narrowly surviving an assassination attempt by a gunman, former President Donald Trump today announced his pick for his running mate and vice presidential candidate for the 2024 U.S. presidential election: J.D. Vance.
A first-term Republican Senator from Ohio, Vance is perhaps best known as the author of the 2016 non-fiction memoir, Hilbilly Elegy, a sociocultural profile of the U.S.’s rural Appalachian mountains region named after a semi-derogatory slang term for the area.
He’s also a former venture capitalist who took investment from Silicon Valley mega venture capitalist, Gawker killer and influential contrarian Peter Thiel.
But amid views many (including me, a Democratic-voting writer) consider controversial, anti-democratic, and even threatening —...
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