 since Richard Nixon was elected alongside Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. He's 39 years old, came to national attention when he wrote his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, elected to the Senate in 2022. He has been an outspoken advocate for Donald Trump since he began his run for the Senate from Ohio, but it wasn't always that way. In 2016, after publishing his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance was a fierce critic of Donald Trump. He called the then-candidate Trump cultural heroine