JD Vance is the Rust Belt boost candidate.” Scott Guthrie, a GOP strategist who had a front-row seat to Vance’s rise in Ohio, recalled the state’s brutal 2022 Senate primary, which Vance ...

MILWAUKEE — Former President Donald Trump doubled down in his pursuit of the Rust Belt with his choice of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his running mate in the 2024 presidential race. Before Vance ...

It was always going to be a source of tension: the arrival of a Republican convention defined by the resurgent Maga dynamic in one of the most steadfastly Democratic cities of the Rust Belt.

JD Vance is the Rust Belt boost candidate.” Welcome to the race: In a new video, Vice President Kamala Harris knocked Vance as a “rubber stamp” for Trump’s “extreme agenda.” ...

The plan, it seems, is to have Vance hunker down in the Rust Belt, parlaying his southern Ohio roots into Midwest votes. It’s not entirely clear, though, that this will yield much. We shouldn ...

Rust Belt Theater Company brings back its musical revue “Forbidden Youngstown” for a four-performance run. Writer-director Robert Dennick Joki has added new material to the revue that finds ...

Over the past several years, Food Truck Fight has been held in Le Claire, but this year, the event is moving to East Moline at The Rust Belt. Food Truck Fight will take place on Saturday from noon ...

Questions about the constitutionality of putting two Florida residents on the ballot and a need to appeal to Rust Belt voters helped lead to former President Donald Trump picking U.S. Sen. JD Vance, R ...

Sen. JD Vance, running on the GOP ticket alongside former President Trump, could help Republicans in "vulnerable Rust Belt states" this cycle, but he might not play as big a role in his home state ...

In his first prime-time address since Trump made his pick, Vance cast himself as fighter for a forgotten working class, making a direct appeal to the Rust Belt voters who helped drive Trump’s ...

By singling out the struggles of his Butler County hometown and other Rust Belt states, Vance also made clear his task for the next four months: Trying to woo voters in battleground middle America.

MILWAUKEE — When Sen. JD Vance accepts the Republican nomination for vice president here Wednesday night, the Ohioan will draw on his turbulent upbringing in a family that wrestled with drug ...