VP Vance Speaks at Campaign Event in Council Bluffs Iow
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VP Vance's memoir 'Hillbilly Elegy' became a Netflix feature film!
Vance wrote the bestselling memoir about growing up in Middletown, Ohio. Ron Howard directed the 2020 Netflix adaptation, starring Gabriel Basso as young Vance and Amy Adams as his mother.
VP Vance wrote a bestselling memoir before entering politics!
Vance's 'Hillbilly Elegy,' about growing up in Middletown, Ohio, became a #1 bestseller and a Netflix film. He later served in the US Senate before becoming Vice President.
VP Vance served as a Marine combat correspondent in Iraq
Before Yale Law School and writing 'Hillbilly Elegy,' Vance grew up in Middletown, Ohio and deployed to Iraq with the Marines — an unusual path to the U.S. Senate and Vice Presidency.
Republicans hold all 4 of Iowa's U.S. House seats heading into 2026.
Iowa flipped its last Democrat-held House seat in 2022. With a narrow House majority (~218 seats), the GOP is rallying incumbents early — Vance's Iowa stop is part of a broad 2026 midterm mobilization effort.
Lincoln chose Council Bluffs as the 1862 transcontinental railroad start!
The Pacific Railway Act paid Union Pacific $16K–$48K per mile in federal bonds — roughly $27M total — making Council Bluffs a federally subsidized economic engine that shaped the entire Midwest.
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