JD Vance: Who is Trump's pro-Israel vice president-elect?

JD Vance, a 40-year-old Ohio senator who many pundits see as Donald Trump's heir apparent and the 2028 Republican presidential candidate, was elected vice president of the United States on Tuesday.

The self-described hillbilly-turned-Marine-turned-Ivy League law-school graduate is perhaps best known among US voters for his rustbelt, conservative politics. 

In his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, Vance addressed the economic and social issues plaguing the US’s forgotten hinterlands. He sought to explain why Trump resonated among white working-class families like his own. 

Vance would later promote Trump's "America First" foreign policy and, in a January 2023 opinion article in The Wall Street Journal, argue that he preferred the type of statesmanship that pursued US national interests - but with great restraint.

Vance said the US-led invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and US-led regime change in Libya, amongst other wars, had not served "the nation’s long-term interest".

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