 After that, the big question was, who would be Trump's pick as vice president? The announcement came on the first night. Ohio Senator J.D. Vance. J.D.'s story is a fascinating one. It is, really, what put him on the radar screen of the nation. He told his story in his 2016 release, Kill Billy Elegy. We're going to go back a bit to my conversation with Senator Vance in August of 2016. I got to say, did you see this coming, the reaction to this book?