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Trump Names 39-Year-Old ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Author as VP Pick
U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, a Republican rising star who burst on the national scene by chronicling his upbringing in small-town Ohio, was named by former President Donald Trump as his vice presidential pick on the first day of the Republican National Convention …