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JD Vance (OSV News/Rebecca Cook, Reuters)

Donald Trump has named Ohio senator JD Vance, a Catholic, as his running mate on the Republican ticket for the United States presidential election in November. Source: OSV News.

If elected, Senator Vance would be just the second Catholic to serve as US vice president. 

The first is President Joe Biden, who served as vice president for two terms before his own election to the White House in 2020 made him the second Catholic to serve as US president. “After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of vice president of the United States is Senator JD Vance of the great state of Ohio,” Mr Trump wrote in a post on his social media platform Truth Social. 

“JD honourably served our country in the Marine Corps, graduated from Ohio State University in two years, Summa Cum Laude, and is a Yale Law School graduate, where he was editor of The Yale Law Journal, and President of the Yale Law Veterans Association.”

Senator Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy, was elected to the US Senate in 2022. He was at one time a staunch critic of Mr Trump, but became a closer ally of the former president as he campaigned for the US Senate. He is ideologically aligned with Trump on issues like foreign policy.

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Trump names Vance, Ohio’s Catholic senator, as his 2024 running mate (By Kate Scanlon, OSV News)