 that he is from the grassroots, that he pulled himself up and has now served in the Senate to represent all people. J.D. Vance was in the Marines. He was deployed to Iraq. He has a law degree from Yale. And he wrote his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, about his upbringing in Appalachia in 2016. Now, at that time, after the publishing of his memoir, J.D. Vance was a fierce critic of Donald Trump.