‘What a Disgrace’: JD Vance Shunned in His Ohio Hometown as Residents Embarrassed By His Vice Presidency and Trump Promises Fell Apart

‘What a Disgrace’: JD Vance Shunned in His Ohio Hometown as Residents Embarrassed By His Vice Presidency and Trump Promises Fell Apart

Voters in Vice President JD Vance’s hometown of Middletown, Ohio, are rethinking their support for the author and former U.S. Marine, with some even saying they’re “embarrassed” by his behavior since he and President Donald Trump won the 2024 Presidential election. The 41-year-old Vance is one of the most high-profile people Middletown has produced, and yet when Washington Post writer Carine Hajjar traveled there to find out what town folks thin…

'I'm kind of embarrassed': JD Vance now gets shunned in his Ohio hometown

Residents of Vice President JD Vance's hometown in Ohio have mixed feelings about the city's most famous native son.The 41-year-old Vance detailed his troubled upbringing in Middletown, where globalization hollowed out its industrial core and chased off good-paying jobs, in his 2016 memoir, “Hillbil...