Hillbilly Elegy Author Decides Against Ohio Senate Run
Source: Bloomberg
Columbus, Ohio (AP) -- The author of the 2016 election-year best seller "Hillbilly Elegy" has decided against joining the U.S. Senate race in Ohio.
J.D. Vance said in a tweet Friday he's busy with investment work, a nonprofit he started to help address Ohio's opioid crisis, and a young family. So, he wrote, "count me out of politics for now."
The Middletown, Ohio, native has been a popular talk show guest for his insights into Donald Trump's white working-class support. Some Republicans encouraged him to run after GOP Treasurer Josh Mandel recently dropped his Senate bid because of his wife's health. That had left Cleveland banker Mike Gibbons as the leading contender to face Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, then fourth-term GOP congressman Jim Renacci (ruh-NAY'-see) decided to run for Senate instead of governor.
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WhiskeyGrinder
(22,145 posts)marble falls
(56,358 posts)Wuddles440
(1,098 posts)Renacci may have a better shot than Gibbons to be their candidate. Of course, both are Drumpf loving, uber assholes so it probably doesn't really matter which one the CONS choose.
Freethinker65
(9,932 posts)Jumping into a race for Senator with no real experience other than writing an over-hyped often directionless (in my opinion) book would have been ill advised.
Demit
(11,238 posts)The success of that book was a marvel of marketing. Superficial insights, unsupported assertions, cliched writing.
Freedomofspeech
(4,218 posts)That book was awful.
NEOBuckeye
(2,778 posts)...and his ultimate decision not to run. I give him that much credit.
llmart
(15,499 posts)especially since the premise of his asinine book was trying to "school" readers on why hillbillies voted for trump.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Then we as a party should physically make him become our next president. Because if he wins re-election, Trump cannot beat him.
And I love the guy. A pragmatic liberal.