We looked into the claim, and found that while Vance converted to Catholicism in adulthood, Biden indeed became the first Catholic vice president when he took office alongside then-President Barack Obama in 2009. In 2021, Biden became the second Catholic president, after former President John F. Kennedy.

Past vice-presidents and vice-presidential candidates are often among their party’s top contenders for future presidential nominations.

The claim that U.S. Vice President-elect JD Vance wrote the foreword to a Project 2025 -linked book written by Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts first spread online when President-elect Donald Trump chose Vance,

Vice President-elect JD Vance will head into the White House with a tight-knit circle of loyalists who were with him during the campaign and, in many cases, came to the U.S. Senate with him from Ohio.