 Indiana Republican Senator Mike Braun says that former President Donald Trump made an exceptional pick by selecting J.D. Vance for his vice presidential running mate. Braun said yesterday that he first met Vance back when his book first hit the shelves and said that he was impressed by his ideas and his optimism for revitalizing the industrial Midwest. Vance wrote the bestseller Hillbilly Elegy, a memoir of his experiences growing up in poverty.