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brooklynite

(93,854 posts)
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 04:49 PM Jan 2018

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.



Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-19/-hillbilly-elegy-author-decides-against-senate-run-in-ohio

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Hillbilly Elegy Author Decides Against Ohio Senate Run (Original Post) brooklynite Jan 2018 OP
Good. WhiskeyGrinder Jan 2018 #1
Better Gibbons than Vance - best is Sherrod Brown! marble falls Jan 2018 #2
Actually.... Wuddles440 Jan 2018 #6
Meh. Good decision on his part though. Freethinker65 Jan 2018 #3
I don't think he has much in the way of charisma, either. Nothing compelling about him. Demit Jan 2018 #4
I agree... Freedomofspeech Jan 2018 #5
Brown would have destroyed him. Vance seems to have realized that much, hence his reluctance NEOBuckeye Jan 2018 #8
Zero chance he'd win... llmart Jan 2018 #7
If Brown wins this race GulfCoast66 Jan 2018 #9

Wuddles440

(1,098 posts)
6. Actually....
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 06:36 PM
Jan 2018

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)
3. Meh. Good decision on his part though.
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 05:13 PM
Jan 2018

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)
4. I don't think he has much in the way of charisma, either. Nothing compelling about him.
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 05:24 PM
Jan 2018

The success of that book was a marvel of marketing. Superficial insights, unsupported assertions, cliched writing.

NEOBuckeye

(2,778 posts)
8. Brown would have destroyed him. Vance seems to have realized that much, hence his reluctance
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 10:26 PM
Jan 2018

...and his ultimate decision not to run. I give him that much credit.

llmart

(15,499 posts)
7. Zero chance he'd win...
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 07:33 PM
Jan 2018

especially since the premise of his asinine book was trying to "school" readers on why hillbillies voted for trump.

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
9. If Brown wins this race
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 11:36 PM
Jan 2018

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.

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