JV Junior Varsity Vance Has a Steep Climb to the White House. If history is any guide, his challenge won’t be winning the Republican primary. It will be winning the presidency.
Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel serves as JD Vance’s political mentor and primary financial backer. They met in 2011 at Yale Law School and have since maintained a close professional relationship, with Thiel hiring Vance at Mithril Capital and contributing $15 million to Vance's 2022 Senate race.
How deep is his lust for power, or more precisely Thiel his handler who could be the Dr. Frankenstein behind the hillbilly dow boy.
How deep is JD Vance's lust for power, and how much of his rise reflects political ambition rather than presidential readiness? Those questions will only intensify as he seeks to follow Donald Trump, a president whom many critics regard as among the least qualified to hold the office.
If history offers any lesson, Vance's steepest climb won't be through a Republican primary. It will come in a general election, where he must persuade a far broader and more skeptical electorate that he possesses the experience, judgment, independence, and character to lead the nation.
