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RepublicanOfficial sources

JD Vance

Vice President of the United States · OH · Vice president; former U.S. senator

US politics influence
41/ 100
Numbers First

Fast statistical read before interpretation

Raised
$15M
Aggregate modeled elections
Coverage
47%
Negative share of tracked coverage
Top outlet
23%
Fox News
Net worth
$9.0M
Latest midpoint
Top topic
18%
Immigration
Social reach
69M
X leads · 40M
X40M · 57%
Instagram25M · 36%
YouTube4.8M · 7%
Overall political influence
Combined first-read signal for voter and statistical comparison.
41/100
Funding Mix

Aggregate modeled elections · as of 2026-06-04

Raised
$15M
Spent
$15M
Cash
$400K
Small individual donors25%
Large individual donors36%
PAC / committee support31%
Other8%

Summary totals aggregate the modeled election tabs below. Static public-source snapshot; replace with exact FEC/state filing exports during ingestion.

Named PACs and committees
JD Vance for Senate Inc.
Candidate committee · Associated
FEC committee snapshot: JD Vance for Senate Inc.
$15M
Protect Ohio Values
Super PAC / outside group · Supports
FEC committee snapshot: Protect Ohio Values
$13M
Large individual donors

Aggregate large-donor view combines curated public itemized records from modeled election tabs; missing names remain explicitly noted rather than inferred.

Coverage Share

2024-01-01 to 2026-06-04 · top outlet: Fox News

Tracked against the fixed MVP outlet set; replace with live GDELT query dates during ingestion.

What Coverage Is About

GDELT-style topic associations

Immigration18%
216 tracked mentions
Ukraine skepticism15%
180 tracked mentions
Industrial policy14%
168 tracked mentions
Trump agenda13%
156 tracked mentions
Culture issues12%
144 tracked mentions
Public Conversation Signals

Search demand and network coverage framing

These are public-source and method-based signals about what people search and what major coverage clusters emphasize; they are not Perception endorsements or quality claims.

What people search most
Immigration
2024-01-01 to 2026-06-04
72
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Static public-interest snapshot ranking common searches around JD Vance; replace with audited Google Trends, news-search, or social-listening exports when connected.

Industrial policy
2024-01-01 to 2026-06-04
54
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Static public-interest snapshot ranking common searches around JD Vance; replace with audited Google Trends, news-search, or social-listening exports when connected.

net worth
2024-01-01 to 2026-06-04
54
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Static public-interest snapshot ranking common searches around JD Vance; replace with audited Google Trends, news-search, or social-listening exports when connected.

donors
2024-01-01 to 2026-06-04
25
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Static public-interest snapshot ranking common searches around JD Vance; replace with audited Google Trends, news-search, or social-listening exports when connected.

polls
2024-01-01 to 2026-06-04
44
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Static public-interest snapshot ranking common searches around JD Vance; replace with audited Google Trends, news-search, or social-listening exports when connected.

Network coverage framing
Fox NewsImmigrationMixed

Fox News coverage is modeled as focusing on immigration for JD Vance, with the outlet share snapshot placing it at 23% of the tracked network/news mix.

2024-01-01 to 2026-06-04GDELT
CNNIndustrial policyCritical

CNN coverage is modeled as focusing on industrial policy for JD Vance, with the outlet share snapshot placing it at 19% of the tracked network/news mix.

2024-01-01 to 2026-06-04GDELT
NYTCulture issuesCritical

NYT coverage is modeled as focusing on culture issues for JD Vance, with the outlet share snapshot placing it at 18% of the tracked network/news mix.

2024-01-01 to 2026-06-04GDELT
Reutersfundraising networkNeutral

Reuters coverage is modeled as focusing on fundraising network for JD Vance, with the outlet share snapshot placing it at 15% of the tracked network/news mix.

2024-01-01 to 2026-06-04GDELT
APelectoral stakesNeutral

AP coverage is modeled as focusing on electoral stakes for JD Vance, with the outlet share snapshot placing it at 13% of the tracked network/news mix.

2024-01-01 to 2026-06-04GDELT
Estimated Net Worth Over Time

Disclosure ranges, not exact bank balances

Latest midpoint
$9.0M
Change since 2016
$7.8M
Method

Estimated from Senate disclosures, book royalties, investment holdings, and reported liabilities.

Spectrum Estimate

Left-right model, not a value judgment

LeftCenterRight
Right / national conservative. Estimated from Senate record, public speeches, and administration role.
US Politics Influence

Following, wealth, positions, media, money, and electoral power

Positions held
37

Formal office, party leadership, committee leverage, and current agenda-setting power.

Media attention
20

Share and intensity in the tracked national news and network coverage set.

Electoral power
18

Relevance to presidential, statewide, nationally watched, or party-defining elections.

Public following
88

Public-platform reach across modeled official, campaign, and public social accounts.

Fundraising network
49

Aggregate modeled campaign receipts, PAC/committee support, and donor infrastructure.

Wealth
44

Estimated disclosure-range midpoint and public wealth context, not exact bank balance.

Source-backed summary

Vice president and former Ohio senator whose influence comes from executive office, close alignment with Trump, and high national visibility.

Top tracked issues
ImmigrationIndustrial policyCulture issuesForeign policy
50th U.S. vice president
Former U.S. senator from Ohio
Author and venture-capital background
What This Person Is Really About

Source-backed synthesis, not Perception endorsement

Political identity

JD Vance is best read as a republican power figure whose profile centers on immigration and industrial policy.

Power lever

Their practical influence comes through executive power and national agenda-setting, fundraising networks, media attention, and coalition relationships tracked in this profile.

Public perception

Public attention clusters around Fox News and CNN coverage plus issue associations in the tracked news set.

Influencer narrative

MVP influencer monitoring treats immigration as the dominant narrative to verify against podcasts, YouTube, X, newsletters, and cable clips.

Trend spike watch

Trend fields are MVP snapshots: use the listed query terms and date ranges as the future ingestion contract for Google Trends, X, Instagram, and vendor social-listening data.

Why this matters long term

This profile is structured as durable civic data: every claim should either cite a source, name a method, or be easy to replace with a live ingestion result.

Key Stances

Source-backed issue stance summaries

Immigration
Official sources

Immigration is tracked as a standard comparison issue. For this MVP, the stance summary is inferred from party alignment, office record, campaign material, and cited public sources, then should be replaced by issue-specific vote/platform ingestion.

Reviewed 2026-06-04
Industrial policy
Official sources

Industrial policy is tracked as a standard comparison issue. For this MVP, the stance summary is inferred from party alignment, office record, campaign material, and cited public sources, then should be replaced by issue-specific vote/platform ingestion.

Reviewed 2026-06-04
Culture issues
Official sources

Culture issues is tracked as a standard comparison issue. For this MVP, the stance summary is inferred from party alignment, office record, campaign material, and cited public sources, then should be replaced by issue-specific vote/platform ingestion.

Reviewed 2026-06-04
Foreign policy
Official sources

Foreign policy is tracked as a standard comparison issue. For this MVP, the stance summary is inferred from party alignment, office record, campaign material, and cited public sources, then should be replaced by issue-specific vote/platform ingestion.

Reviewed 2026-06-04
Economy
Official sources

Economy is tracked as a standard comparison issue. For this MVP, the stance summary is inferred from party alignment, office record, campaign material, and cited public sources, then should be replaced by issue-specific vote/platform ingestion.

Reviewed 2026-06-04
Abortion
Official sources

Abortion is tracked as a standard comparison issue. For this MVP, the stance summary is inferred from party alignment, office record, campaign material, and cited public sources, then should be replaced by issue-specific vote/platform ingestion.

Reviewed 2026-06-04
Background

Education, home state, and public family bio

From
Ohio
Highest education
Juris Doctor
Marriages
1
Children
3
Schools
Ohio State UniversityYale Law School

Public biographical snapshot; family counts and residence can change and should be refreshed from official bios/public disclosures.

Controversy Meter

2024-01-01 to 2026-06-04

Critical coverage intensity
72
High
Negative share
47%
Tracked articles
1,728

MVP estimate based on critical/negative tone, 0% legal/conflict topic association, 13% personal/family association, and concentrated conflict coverage in the tracked outlet set.

Political Allies

Coalition and governing network

Institutional Memory

Historical records for long-term study

Policy milestone
2016
Author

Published Hillbilly Elegy.

Office
2023-2025
U.S. senator

Represented Ohio in the Senate.

Office
2025-
Vice president

Serves as vice president in the Trump administration.

Policy milestone
2026-06-04
Perception source snapshot

Structured snapshot tying office history, money, media topics, issue stances, and trend placeholders into one reusable civic-data record.

Resume Timeline

Quick scan

2016
Author

Published Hillbilly Elegy.

2023-2025
U.S. senator

Represented Ohio in the Senate.

2025-
Vice president

Serves as vice president in the Trump administration.

Most Similar

Coalition and career resemblance

Receipts

Every profile starts with public sources

MVP note: controversy, funding, net worth, and coverage values are seeded estimates structured for future FEC, GDELT, disclosure, and Congress.gov ingestion.