ST. LOUIS — Former President Donald Trump's pick for vice president will be in St. Louis on Friday, according to multiple GOP groups in the area.
The St. Clair County Republican Central Committee, one of such groups, posted on its website that JD Vance would be appearing in St. Louis along with Sen. Eric Schmitt.
The exact location and timing details of the event are not public. Ticket prices were included:
- Reception: $3,000 Per Person
- Photo Opportunity: $15,000 Give/Raise Per Photo
- Roundtable: $25,000 Give/Raise Per Person
- Host Committee: $100,000 Give/Raise Per Couple | $50,000 Give/Raise Per Person
Vance introduced himself as Trump's running mate during the Republican National Convention on July 17, where he spoke of growing up poor in Kentucky and Ohio, how his mother was addicted to drugs and his father was absent, and how he later joined the military and went on to the highest levels of U.S. politics.
“To the people of Middletown, Ohio, and all the forgotten communities in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Ohio, and every corner of our nation, I promise you this," he said. "I will be a vice president who never forgets where he came from.”
Vance is also facing newfound criticism after videos resurfaced of Vance in 2021 questioning Vice President Kamala Harris' leadership because she did not have biological children.
During Vance's bid for the Senate in Ohio, he said in a Fox News interview that “we are effectively run in this country via the Democrats," and referred to them as "a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too." He said that included Harris, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.