Trump picks 39-year-old Ohio senator, Vance, as running mate Story from Uji A. ILIYASU  Former US president, Donald Trump, on Monday, named right-wing Ohio senator, J.D. Vance, as his running mate in the US presidential election, rewarding a one-time harsh critic who became one of his most loyal supporters in Congress. Trump, 78, announced his pick on the first day of the Republican Party convention in Milwaukee, an extravaganza turbocharged by his attempted assassination. Seen as the standard-bearer for a new kind of populism that has come to the fore under Trump, the...