JD Vance is one of the more intriguing Republican candidates. He was a celebrity Democrat voice of the working class for several years on television after his award-winning book, Hillbilly Elegy. But Vance, after not supporting Trump in 2016, embraced Trump in 2020. The media that had loved him felt betrayed and have savaged him ever since.
Vance is running against Tim Ryan, a Democrat congressman from Ohio who has courted the same political press that has now turned on Vance. Ryan began that courtship twenty years ago when he went to Congress while Vance served our country as a Marine. Now, relying on his beltway media love affair, Ryan regularly gets favorable headlines while Vance gets smeared. Reading the press, you’d think Vance was toast in Ohio. The reality is Vance will be the next Senator. He is up in all the polls.
