– The others in my family will all vote for Trump and Vance. But I’m not entirely sure. I want to find out a little more first. That’s what Ashley Martin says to news. She sits on the patio outside a small white house in Middletown, Ohio. news meets the 32-year-old before the debate between the two vice-presidential candidates Tim Waltz and JD Vance. Martin is wearing a blue uniform from the supermarket chain where she works, and says that she has just returned home from her morning shift at the meat counter. – My husband and I try to divide the days so that one of us can be at home with the children. When I get home from the morning shift, he goes to work. Hard work is important if you want to get anywhere. – And we try to teach our children that. In this house, Trump’s vice-presidential candidate grew up with his grandmother. Photo: Tove Bjørgaas / news Sharing drug history Someone who is concerned that hard work, and not public welfare schemes, can save Americans from poverty is JD Vance (40). He grew up here on McKinley Street in the 1990s. Both mother Beverly and grandmother Bonnie lived here. When he was a teenager, he moved in with his grandmother, because her mother had too much drug problems to take care of him. Ashley Martin knows what it’s like. Her mother also struggles with addiction. And she, too, grew up with her grandmother. – I try to keep my children away from it. So they don’t spend much time with my mother. Perfectly “timed” autobiography A dramatized version of the childhood of JD Vance, you can watch on Netflix. The film Hillbilly Elegy is based on the autobiography he published in 2016, which was about his struggle to achieve the American dream and about the poverty he grew up in. – I am proud of him and what he has achieved. He knows his grandmother is looking down on him from heaven, says Jerry Dobbins, Another neighbor who remembers JD Vance’s grandmother Bonnie Vance well. Jerry Dobbins has decorated his house ahead of the presidential election. Photo: Andreas Vingaard / news Vance’s book was published the same year that Donald Trump was elected president and became an immediate bestseller. J, D. Vance became the man who taught a shocked American elite why the white working class voted for Donald Trump in 2016. The book made him a rich man, and he later sold the movie rights to Netflix for $45 million. Inspiring the children But before that he had dragged himself out of poverty on McKinley Street, enlisted in the military and thus had his university education covered, and entered law school at Yale. An education many American presidents have taken. Ashley has four children. Her twin sons, aged 14, are very inspired by JD Vance, – He has become very interested in politics and follows along. It is very inspiring for them that someone who grew up in our street has managed to achieve so far. Two American dreams Tonight, Vance will meet his democratic rival Tim Walz for a debate in New York. Walz also grew up with little money, on a farm in Nebraska. And he too used support schemes in the military to get an education, so that he could become a teacher and football coach. Before he later became a congressman and then governor of Minnesota. Walz has said that he is inspired by Norwegian values, as is the mantra in the state he governs. He has introduced several public measures there to remedy poverty among children. Among other things, Waltz has introduced free lunch in all public schools in Minnesota. In a few hours, these two vice-presidential candidates will meet for a debate. It’s happening in New York, night to Wednesday Norwegian time. Photo: AP Cat women and dog eating JD Vance has received a lot of attention for controversial and divisive statements in the election campaign. Among other things, he has criticized childless women in the Democratic Party, such as Kamala Harris, and said that they should not rule the United States. It was also Vance who first spread the lie that immigrants in the town of Springfield in his home state were eating people’s dogs and cats. Donald Trump received enormous attention when he mentioned this in the debate against Kamala Harris on September 10. Last chance before the election The debate in New York between the two vice-presidential candidates could be the last debate of any kind, before the election on November 5. CNN has invited Harris and Trump to another meeting on October 23. Harris has accepted, but Trump has not said he will run. Therefore, the two men meeting in New York could become voters as Ashley’s last chance to see an exchange between the two candidates. Final touches before the presidential debate in New York. The picture was taken on 30 September. Photo: CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES / AFP Comet political career JD Vance is only 40 years old, and was elected to Congress in 2024. He thus has less political experience than most vice presidential candidates. This may also become a topic in the debate tonight. Tim Walz, for his part, offered harsh criticism of Trump and Vance this summer. He is known for speaking straight from the chest, and in many ways that is perhaps why he was elected vice-presidential candidate. In the election campaign, however, Americans who have come to public meetings have encountered a calmer and more cautious version of Walz. There is therefore tension linked to how he will appear in the night’s debate. Two men who each achieved the American dream meet tonight in a TV studio in New York. But their thoughts on how to get to the top in the US are quite different. The debate between the vice-presidential candidates will be followed by millions of viewers. The picture was taken during the preparations on 30 September. Photo: ANGELA WEISS / AFP Published 01.10.2024, at 21.34
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