We looked into the claim, and found that while Vance converted to Catholicism in adulthood, Biden indeed became the first Catholic vice president when he took office alongside then-President Barack Obama in 2009. In 2021, Biden became the second Catholic president, after former President John F. Kennedy.

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Past vice-presidents and vice-presidential candidates are often among their party’s top contenders for future presidential nominations.

JD Vance, a 40-year-old senator who transformed himself from a biting critic of Donald J. Trump to one of his fiercest defenders, was elected the next vice president of the United States on Wednesday, becoming the third youngest and among the least experienced and most polarizing politicians ever to hold the office.

The claim that U.S. Vice President-elect JD Vance wrote the foreword to a Project 2025 -linked book written by Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts first spread online when President-elect Donald Trump chose Vance,

Vice President-elect JD Vance will head into the White House with a tight-knit circle of loyalists who were with him during the campaign and, in many cases, came to the U.S. Senate with him from Ohio.