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Quote of the day by JD Vance: 'Poor people don't wear pajamas. We fall asleep in our underwear or blue jeans'

US Vice President JD Vance's life is a rags-to-riches story as he struggled with poverty and instability as he grew up. He chronicled his life in his best-selling book Hillbilly Elegy, published in 2016, just before Donald Trump became the president for the first time. JD Vance was not even a politician at that time. As a lawyer and a venture capitalist, JD Vance was basking in the success of his memoir as a first-time writer. A public critic of Donald Trump, JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy captured the frustration of the working-class voters and it was there Vance wrote how funny he found the concept of pajamas.

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