"I think it was probably a surprise to most people that he really hadn't been an ohio resident for a long, long time," she says. "Once that set in, some people looked at him and said, do care. That's fine. We don't bother." She asks: How has j d vance gone about convincing people? He doesn't seem to be doing so well on the issue of Ohioans as four middle-class people who voted for Donald Trump.
Liberals turned to J.D. Vance’s book to better understand Donald Trump’s victory. Now the “Hillbilly Elegy” author is turning to Trump to try and win the Republican primary in Ohio’s Senate race.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Noel King.
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