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Hillbilly Veep
U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance arrives at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee yesterday after Trump announced him as his running mate. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images)
He once called Trump ‘America’s Hitler.’ But yesterday, J.D. Vance was given a hero’s welcome at the RNC.
By Olivia Reingold
07.16.24 — U.S. Politics
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MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin—It’s just before 4 p.m. and everyone at the Republican National Convention is jockeying for a glimpse of Senator J.D. Vance. A woman kicks off her bedazzled heels, then stands on her seat barefoot to get a better view. A delegate tells me he just borrowed a woman’s lipstick to scrawl “VANCE” in capital letters on a white Trump sign.

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Olivia Reingold
Olivia Reingold is a staff writer at The Free Press. She co-created and executive produced Matthew Yglesias’s podcast, Bad Takes. She got her start in public radio, regularly appearing on NPR for her reporting on indigenous communities in Montana. She previously produced podcasts at Politico, where she shaped conversations with world leaders like Jens Stoltenberg.
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