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What to know about Tim Walz and JD Vance

From CNN staff

As the two vice presidential candidates have been chosen, here’s a brief breakdown about Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. JD Vance.

Tim Walz is in his second term as Minnesota governor and was most recently chair of the Democratic Governors Association. A onetime high school teacher and football coach who served in the Army National Guard, Walz later spent 12 years in Congress, representing a conservative-leaning rural district in southern Minnesota. Walz had been an outspoken defender of Joe Biden, but when the president dropped out, he endorsed Harris and has since emerged as a reliable, energetic and cutting advocate for the campaign.

JD Vance was elected to the US Senate from Ohio in 2022 after receiving a boost from former President Donald Trump in a contentious Republican primary. A venture capitalist and the author of the best-selling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” Vance had once been a key voice in the “Never Trump” movement during the 2016 election. But he later became a leading MAGA proponent, courting the former president at meetings in Mar-a-Lago and through appearances on Fox News.