{"id":17981,"date":"2026-06-26T04:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=17981"},"modified":"2026-06-26T04:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:04:06","slug":"vice-president-jd-vance-talks-faith-and-politics-in-orange-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=17981","title":{"rendered":"Vice President JD Vance talks faith and politics in Orange County"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 400 people gathered at the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda on Thursday to hear Vice President JD Vance speak on current issues and his personal journey with his faith, the subject of his new memoir.<\/p>

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The Republican official\u2019s talk turned political at times. Vance began the event by recounting a question posed weeks ago by a reporter, asking the difference between him and Gov. Gavin Newsom. Vance quipped: \u201cPeople actually bought my book.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vance also reminisced on the 2024 election, telling the crowd he figured out in the moment that the vice presidential debate between him and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was a success because he saw his wife \u201cwith the biggest smile on her face,\u201d while Walz\u2019s wife looked like she had \u201cjust shown up at her dog\u2019s funeral,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf my wife is really happy and Gwen Walz is not so happy, things must have went pretty well,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n

Aside from some political jabs, Vance largely talked about his faith at the sold-out event on June 25, which came on the heels of his new memoir, \u201cCommunion: Finding My Way Back to Faith.\u201d That faith journey, he said, largely hinged on his grandmother, Bonnie Blanton Vance.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy grandmother was, in many ways, not a stereotypical grandma,\u201d the vice president said, adding that while she was \u201cnonconventional,\u201d she was also someone who was \u201cof very deep religious faith.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking back, I think one of the things that I realized about my own faith is that I was attached to Christianity via my grandmother. She was the anchor,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n

And when she died in 2005, Vance said, his faith went with her for a time.<\/p>

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