 WDBZ Cincinnati, 1230 The Buzz, your talk station. Ohio's junior United States Senator J.D. Vance is the Republican Party's 2024 nominee for vice president. Donald Trump announced Vance as his running mate Monday on social media, saying the Middletown native will be strongly focused on the people he has fought so brilliantly for, American workers and farmers. Trump and Vance are officially nominated to be the party's ticket issuers.