Sara Dorn is a Forbes news reporter who covers politics, with a focus on elections and Capitol Hill. She joined Forbes in 2022 and is based in New York.
Republican vice presidential nominee and Ohio Sen. JD Vance made an aggressive appeal to Midwestern voters, leaning into themes from his “Hillbilly Elegy” memoir that broke him into politics at Wednesday’s Republican National Convention —Vance’s biggest stage yet as theVance formally accepted the Republican nomination for vice president in a speech Wednesday, two days after Trump announced Vance as his running mate in a Truth Social post that cited his appeal to voters in the Midwest.
While speaking about President Joe Biden, Vance joined the convention crowd as the chanted “Joe Must Go.” The speech underscored Vance’s appeal to voters in the battleground states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, which he repeatedly mentioned in the address.
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