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Post by Admin on Jul 17, 2024 0:06:31 GMT
 As JD Vance walked on to the RNC convention floor to accept the party’s vice-presidential nomination on Monday, speakers lined up to lavish praise on his impeccable credentials. But the Ohio senator and running mate of Republican White House candidate Donald Trump has previously said he feels “humbled” by the stellar CV of his wife, Usha Vance. While she does not seek out the political spotlight, Mrs Vance, 38, wields considerable influence over her husband’s career, he has said. In an interview on Fox News last month, she said: "I believe in JD, and I really love him, and so we’ll just sort of see what happens with our life." The two met as students at Yale Law School in 2013, when they joined a discussion group on “social decline in white America”, according to the New York Times. The content influenced Mr Vance's best-selling 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, about his childhood in the white working-class Rust Belt, which became a 2020 movie directed by Ron Howard. Mr Vance, 39, has said he considered her his “Yale spirit guide” when they were classmates at the elite university. Mrs Vance previously graduated with a BA in history from Yale University and was also a Gates Scholar at Cambridge University, where she came away with an MPhil in early modern history, according to her LinkedIn profile. |
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Post by Admin on Jul 17, 2024 2:34:00 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jul 17, 2024 2:35:41 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jul 17, 2024 13:13:14 GMT
European politicians and diplomats had already prepared for changes to their relationship with the US in the event of a second Donald Trump presidency.
Now that the Republican candidate has chosen Ohio Senator JD Vance as his running mate, those differences appear even more stark on prospects for the war in Ukraine, security and trade.
A vocal critic of US aid to Ukraine, Mr Vance told this year’s Munich Security Conference that Europe should wake up to the US having to “pivot” its focus to East Asia.
"The American security blanket has allowed European security to atrophy," he said.
Nils Schmid, a senior MP in German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party, told the BBC that he was confident a Republican presidency would continue to stay within Nato, even if JD Vance came across as "more isolationist" and Donald Trump remained "unpredictable".
However, he warned of a new round of "trade wars" with the US under a second Trump presidency.
An EU diplomat said that after four years of Donald Trump no-one was naïve: "We understand what it means if Trump comes back as a second-term president, regardless of his running mate."
Portraying the EU as a sailing boat preparing for a storm the diplomat, who preferred not to be named, added that whatever they might be able to tie down, it was always going to be rough.
The US is Ukraine's biggest ally, and President Volodymyr Zelensky said this week: "I'm not afraid about him becoming president, we will work together."
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Post by Admin on Jul 18, 2024 7:20:21 GMT
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