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JD Vance is not your typical vice presidential candidate.
“[I] hopped in the back seat to hide from her.
And this got her really angry.
And she stopped the car and pulled over and, I think, was going to start hitting me.
And so I ran,” Vance recalled.
This led to lawsuits against his mother, and eventually, Vance and Lindsay were adopted by their grandparents.
While JD was navigating his teenage years, Lindsay left home.
“I just felt so sorry for those kids and why I didn’t see more of him.
I should have been able to do more.”
Vance has made it clear that he never blamed Lindsay for leaving.
“She had found her way and I was looking for my way out.”
Vance almost took the wrong way out.
He started hanging out with the wrong kids and eventually experimented with drugs.
But his grandmother found out and gave him a very stern talking-to, something he remembers fondly.
you might either stop hanging out with these kids, or I’ll run them over with my car.
She was well aware that outsiders looked down on their poor community.
The latter is also whereVance met his wife, Usha.
