. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: merry christmas and welcome back to "tucker carlson tonight," jamie vance grew up ohio, he is running for the u.s. senate. but he has been to a great extent defined by his childhood in a good way. in our conversation he told us what it was like to leave a small town to make a better life for himself. here is -- here it is. ♪ ♪ your perception was that you were middle-class, conventional american family, but by the time you were in high school you had slipped backward. without getting too intrusive, how? how does that happen? >> i think drugs was the biggest driver for a family. and this is like really complicated, but my mom struggled with heroin addiction that started to happen around the time when i was ten or 11. my grandfather who was sort of the patriarch of the family kept everything together, he died at the age of 67. which at the time i thought was really old. and i was like i can't believe that my grandfather died at 67 years old. >> tucker: how did he die? >> just died of an aortic aneurysm which is a problem that we later found out if he had gotten adequ