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The author of Hillbilly Elegy has vaulted into the lead among Republicans in the Ohio Senate race.

The author of Hillbilly Elegy has vaulted into the lead among Republicans in the Ohio Senate race.

First Posted: Jul 05, 2021 11:20 PM EDT Photo : Astrid Riecken For The Washington Post via Getty Images "Hillbilly Elegy" author J.D. Vance had backed away from his tweets criticizing former President Donald Trump amid his Ohio Senate bid. J.D. Vance announced his candidacy last week as Ohio Senator Rob Portman is set to retire, Business Insider report. The best-selling author now faces his first controversy after Andrew Kaczynski of CNN retrieved several of Vances tweets criticizing Trump. ...

JD Vance: Trump whisperer turned Senate hopeful His bestselling book Hillbilly Elegy captured a cultural moment around the rise of Donald Trump. Its author, a child of the hardscrabble Appalachians turned Yale law graduate and venture capitalist, is now being courted for a Senate run. Could JD Vance be the Republicans next big thing? James David Bowman, later Vance, was born in Middletown, Ohio, in the heart of the US Rust Belt, in 1984. His mother, Bev Vance, struggled with addiction, first t...