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By Katherine Fung
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Family members of vice presidential candidate JD Vance are not allowed to speak to members of the media, according to a report on social media.
"In Middletown for the JD Vance rally. Just met his mother and sister. They are not allowed to talk with the media today. They told me they are proud beyond words," Mike Dardis, an anchor at Cincinnati's WLWT, wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter) alongside a picture of him and Vance's family.
It is unclear who gave Vance's mother and sister the directive or why they were told not to speak with reporters. Newsweek reached out to Vance and the Donald Trump campaign via email for comment.
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The Republican Ohio senator, who was named Trump's running mate last week, appeared at a campaign rally in his hometown of Middletown on Monday. He is scheduled to hold an event in Radford, Virginia, later in the evening.
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The rallies mark Vance's first solo appearances on the campaign trail since Trump announced he had selected the senator as his running mate during the Republican National Convention a week ago. The appearances also come just a day after President Joe Biden announced he was dropping out of the presidential race and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee.
"President Trump and I are ready to save America, whoever's at the top of the Democrat ticket," Vance tweeted on Sunday. "Bring it on."
Vance's mother, Bev, accompanied him to the convention in Milwaukee last week and reacted emotionally to her son's first speech as the nominee for vice president. Bev received a standing ovation from the crowd after her son talked about his mother and her overcoming an addiction.
"I'm proud to say that tonight my mom is here, 10 years clean and sober. I love you, Mom," the senator said.
She was seen tearing up as she stood for the applause while the crowd chanted "JD's mom." His family also joined him onstage that evening.
The author of Hillbilly Elegy, Vance has been open about his difficult childhood and his mother's family in eastern Kentucky. The memoir, which details his family's Appalachian background, propelled Vance into the national spotlight when it was published in 2016. He entered politics just three years ago, running for the Senate seat being vacated by Rob Portman in 2022 and defeating Democratic nominee Tim Ryan with 53 percent of the vote.
Vance is expected to draw on his biography to help the Trump campaign win over voters in the Rust Belt. But he's also been harshly criticized by some, like Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, for his portrayal of Appalachian communities.
Beshear, whose name has been floated as a possible VP pick for Harris, should she win the Democratic nomination—blasted Vance on Monday. "I want the American people to know what a Kentuckian is and what they look like because let me just tell you that JD Vance ain't from here," he said.
"The nerve that he has to call the people of Kentucky, of eastern Kentucky, lazy," Beshear said on MSNBC's Morning Joe. "Listen, these are the hardworking coal miners that powered the industrial revolution, that created the strongest middle class the world has ever seen, powered us through two world wars. We should be thanking them, not calling them lazy."
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