 You gotta take care of business, you gotta go to school, you gotta get good grades to even have a chance. Mom was the best in her class. What's the point? Vance joined the Marines and served in Iraq and then went to Yale Law School, later becoming a venture capitalist. The vice presidential nominee once scorned Donald Trump, proudly declaring himself a never Trumper and calling Trump unfit for the nation's highest office. In 2016, Vance told me he was concerned about a Trump presidency.