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Many believe J.D. Vance’s best-selling book Hillbilly Elegy helped explain the popularity of presidential candidate Donald Trump among rural and blue-collar Americans. Church Militant’s Kristine Christlieb turns the spotlight on this award-winning author — and now Republican candidate for the Ohio U.S. Senate seat.
Over the Fourth of July weekend in his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, author, lawyer and venture capitalist J.D. Vance announced his run for the U.S. Senate.
Vance: “We need people in Washington, D.C. who knows how the system works, who knows how to reform that system and who can make this country better.”
Publication of Hillbilly Elegy brought Vance into the public eye.
The memoir describes growing up in poverty with an unstable family. His mother was a drug addict and his father was mostly absent.
After high school, Vance joined the Marine Corps, graduated from Ohio State University and was admitted to Yale Law School.
Tucker Carlson: “You went to the law school that … puts more people on the Supreme Court than any other law school.”
It was at Yale the limits of Vance’s Appalachian background caught up with him and inspired him to write Hillbilly Elegy.
The main challenge to his campaign is his criticism of former President Trump, causing worries Vance is just another RINO.
In the current political climate, Vance’s hardscrabble pedigree might actually be an advantage. But concerns about his real political motives mean voters must keep an eye on his campaign.
Vance was raised in an evangelical family but converted to Catholicism in 2019.
