JD Vance to speak at Republican National Convention

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Sen. JD Vance, former President Donald Trump's running mate, is scheduled to speak Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in a speech introducing himself to the nation.

Trump announced his selection of Vance on Monday. Vance is the first major party candidate for vice president from Ohio since 1944, when former governor John Bricker was running mate to presidential candidate Thomas Dewey, also a former Ohio governor.

Defeating Democratic challenger Tim Ryan in 2022 and taking over former Sen. Rob Portman's seat in January 2023, the 39-year-old Vance will appear on the presidential ballot with less than two years of experience in elected office. Before his political career, Vance was a venture capitalist who wrote a 2016 memoir-turned-Netflix-movie called "Hillbilly Elegy."

In 2016, Vance was a Trump critic, calling him a "total fraud," "moral disaster" and "America's Hitler." Vance has since said Trump's performance as president proved his original stance.

Vance is scheduled to speak at 10:30 p.m., after Donald Trump Jr. and Vance's wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance, speak starting about 10.