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##KeystoneReport: JD Vance's Mom Beverley. Salena Zito, Middle of Somewhere, @DCExaminer Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New York Post, SalenaZito.com

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🗓️ 2 November 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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##KeystoneReport: JD Vance's Mom Beverley.  Salena Zito, Middle of Somewhere, @DCExaminer Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New York Post, SalenaZito.com
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0:00.0

This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchett with Selena Zito of the Washington Examiner

0:05.1

and the Wall Street Journal. Speaking of our native state, Pennsylvania, the Keystone State,

0:11.0

the one, the stone that holds the bridge together. We're speaking of the closing hours of both campaigns.

0:19.0

Mr. Trump, repeating his emphasis from the first term for

0:24.9

the second term, drill, baby drill, et cetera, exaggerated developer talk. And Ms. Harris,

0:31.2

surprisingly, speaking negatively, which is not textbook closing campaign. Now we turn to J.D. Vance, who was a discovery

0:39.2

for me. I know he, as an author, he writes very well. He's also very well educated, and he comes

0:45.6

from a part of Ohio that's Rust Belt. I did not know his mother, Beverly Aiken. I'd heard

0:51.1

stories about how he'd grown up with his grandparents back and forth

0:57.0

who are in Kentucky. But I didn't know about her life story. And Selena, you've written

1:01.0

of Beverly Aiken's and she's been on the campaign trail for some time. What I see is a dynamo.

1:07.0

Was she always like this or did J.D. Vance transform her in some fashion by taking her with him on the campaign trail? What is she really like? No, that's what she's really like. She is this, she's, I mean, J.D. looks just like his mom. You know, those piercing blue eyes you saw at the debate? Those are his mom's eyes.

1:28.4

She is tiny, and she makes up for that in her larger-than-life personality.

1:38.2

And, you know, she really had, and she's very open about her struggles with her addiction, which began with

1:47.4

her work as a nurse and she had a really bad headache one day.

1:51.1

I see she took something to get rid of it and the prescription from work and soon came,

1:59.2

went home and was able to clean the whole house and she's like well i really like

2:03.2

how this feels and it the addiction just descended from there she was eventually fired from her job

2:11.9

as a nurse a profession that she worked so hard to accomplish.

2:18.3

And between that and her relationship with her children, it broke her.

2:24.3

But as she says in the story, it didn't bring me enough to stop.

2:28.3

It took a while for her to get there.

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