Vance goes on charm offensive with VP acceptance speech at RNC

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MILWAUKEE — One of 2024 Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance‘s political strengths is his personal story told through his 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy and its 2020 Netflix adaptation.

But the junior senator from Ohio used his vice presidential nomination acceptance speech before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Wednesday to retell his story to his most important audience yet.

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