Vice President-elect will resign his upper chamber seat and trigger a selection process followed by a special election.

Vice President-elect JD Vance has served in the U.S. Senate for less than two years and soon the process will begin to pick his replacement in the upper chamber.

WASHINGTON – JD Vance has come to be known as one of the top next-generation leaders of the populist conservative movement President-elect Donald Trump sparked. Now he will officially be Trump's heir apparent as vice president of the United States.