 news alert the running mate announced timely salicera donald trump has chosen ohio senator jd vance as his pick for vice president before politics and even college vance spent four years in the marines serving in iraq later earning an undergrad degree from ohio state and a law degree from yale vance who turns 40 next month was once a critic of donald trump telling a journalist in 2016 quote i'm a never trump guy but after trump's shocking win in 2016 vance embraced