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Donald Trump defeated the incumbent vice president and Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris, in the 2024 presidential election, receiving 312 electoral votes compared to Harris's 226 electoral votes in the election; winning every swing state in addition to holding on to all of the states that he won in 2020.
Deputy Assistant to the President and Faith Director of the White House Faith Office: Jennifer S. Korn [38] Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Faith Engagement: Jackson Lane [38] National Security Council; National Security Advisor: Michael Waltz [39] January 20, 2025 Deputy National Security Advisor: Alex Wong [40 ...
The incumbent vice president is JD Vance, who assumed office as the 50th vice president on January 20, 2025. [3] [4] There have been 50 U.S. vice presidents since the office was created in 1789. Originally, the vice president was the person who received the second-most votes for president in the Electoral College.
PHOTO: Vice President-elect J.D. Vance arrives to the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 20, 2025 in Washington. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Vance is the second Catholic vice president, after Joe Biden. [156] Among Vance's first acts as vice president was swearing in Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the first of Trump's cabinet nominees to be approved by Congress, on January 21. [157] On January 24, he cast the tie-breaking vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense. [158]
Republican Sen. JD Vance and Democratic Gov. Tim Walz clashed Tuesday on everything from economic and gun policy to immigration and school shootings in the only vice presidential debate of the ...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. JD Vance are facing off Tuesday night for this cycle’s sole vice presidential debate in New York City. Follow CNN’s fact checks throughout the night.
President John Quincy Adams, a Democratic-Republican, appointed Joseph Hopkinson, a Federalist, as a U.S. federal judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. President Franklin Pierce, a Democrat, appointed Isaac Blackford, a Whig, as a judge on the United States Court of Claims.