The file

JD Vance

Republican · Vice President of the United States · Ohio · Spectrum score +56

Vice President · New Right ·

JD Vance is Vice President of the United States in Ohio. Political positions and ideology score +56 (Right). Vance is the New Right’s translator, not its accountant.

College: Ohio State University, B.A. 2009 · Yale Law School, J.D. 2013
Spouse: Usha Vance (m. 2014)
Children: Three
Résumé: Vice President of the United States · 2025–
U.S. Senator · Ohio · 2023–2025
Principal · Narya Capital · 2019–2022

Net worth: $8.0M
Salary: $235,100
Before office: $1.2M
2026 raised: —
Years in office: 3

Where JD stands on the spectrum

JD Vance scores +56 on Spectrum’s left–right line (right), right of center on the economy and conservative on social issues. The number is modeled from twelve issue positions and the public record — not a poll and not a party label.

Composite +56 · Right · economic +33 · social +68 · authoritarian +40

Confidence 94. How we calculate scores →

Background & record

Vance is the New Right’s translator, not its accountant. The file that never makes morning shows: a Yale-and-VC résumé lecturing Ohio about elites, with the same donor class that funded the 2022 Senate race now sitting in the West Wing anteroom.

Finances

Modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit of any household.

Net worth

$8.0M

+567% since taking office

Senate disclosure midpoint, 2025

Before office$1.2M

Now$8.0M

Venture-capital carry from Peter Thiel’s orbit plus book royalties. The Ohio Senate term was short; the vice-presidency is the liquidity event.

Money in · 2026 cycle

Raised: $0
Cash on hand: $0

Top industries

Venture capital
Publishing
Tech donors

Stock holdings

Individual common stock

Venture carry from the Thiel orbit plus funds. Not a day trader. The West Wing is the liquidity event.

OGE / Senate leftover, 2025 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit

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Venture / Narya-related interests
Trust
$1.0M–$5.0M
VTI
Index funds
Joint
$500K–$1.0M

Ticker	Name	Owner	Range
—	Venture / Narya-related interests	Trust	$1.0M–$5.0M
VTI	Index funds	Joint	$500K–$1.0M

Sum of ranges $1.5M–$6.0M · midpoint $3.8M

X sentiment

Last 7 days

Odds

Polymarket · Kalshi

Implied probability from open contracts. Real money, not a poll. Updates while you sit here.

Live wire

Live · checked just now

New articles land here as they publish. Checking about every 12 seconds.

Conflicts

Thiel-network money on the way in; industrial-policy talk on the way out.
Hillbilly Elegy royalties while running a class-war brief against the universities that assigned it.

Issue detail

−100 left pole · +100 right pole

Economic: +33
Social: +68
Authoritarian: +40
Confidence: 94

Taxes & spending+32
Lower taxes, smaller fiscal footprint
Health care+30
Private insurance markets, fewer mandates
Climate & energy+68
Energy abundance, fewer climate mandates
Business regulation+38
Deregulation and lighter administrative state
Labor & wages-8
Unions, higher minimum wage, worker power — Has argued the old GOP was too hostile to unions and too friendly to cheap labor.
Immigration+84
Tighter borders, more deportations
Abortion+58
Restrictions or bans, fetal personhood
Guns+68
Broad Second Amendment, fewer federal limits
Crime & policing+74
More policing, longer sentences, less bail reform
Schools & speech+68
Choice, against gender/DEI curricula — Leading critic of elite universities and DEI bureaucracies.
Defense & alliances+40
Hard power, high defense spending, deterrence
Civil liberties+52
Order, platform / campus / speech restrictions for security or morality

Legislative first dimension (NOMINATE-like): 0.64

Compass

Auth · leftAuth · rightLib · leftLib · rightAuthoritarianLibertarianEconomic leftEconomic right

Sources

Senate record 2023–25
VP speeches 2025–26
Wealth and fundraising are modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit.
College, family, and résumé are public-record facts, not a campaign bio.