‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Writer-Turned Ohio GOP Sen Candidate Deletes Old Anti-Trump Tweets

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 27: J.D. Vance, author of the book "Hillbilly Elegy," poses for a portrait photograph near the US Capitol building in Washington, D.C., January 27, 2017. Vance has become the nation's go-to angry, white, rural translator. The book has sold almost half a million copies since late June. Vance, a product of rural Ohio, a former Marine and Yale School grad, has the nation's top-selling book. He's become a CNN commentator, in-demand speaker, and plans to move back to Ohio from SF where he's worked as a principal in an investment firm. (Photo by Astrid Riecken For The Washington Post)
J.D. Vance, author of the book "Hillbilly Elegy," poses for a portrait photograph near the US Capitol building on January 27, 2017. (Photo by Astrid Riecken For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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J.D. Vance, the author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” a memoir aimed at presenting himself as a conservative intellectual who rises above toxic hyperpartisanship, is apparently scrambling for the approval of MAGAland as he jostles for outgoing Sen. Rob Portman’s (R-OH) seat in the packed-GOP primary.

CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski flagged that Vance’s tweets from 2016 expressing disgust for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and boosting Evan McMullin, an independent candidate in the 2016 presidential election, have been deleted:

The formerly anti-Trump conservative’s scrubbing of his Twitter timeline of traces of his anti-Trumpiness reflects a broader theme among Republicans: the understanding that running for office, at least in the upcoming midterms, means kneeling at the alter of the ex-president – even after writing an autobiography that attempted to sell an overly simplified and mostly apolitical analysis of poverty in Appalachia in order to appeal to a broad electorate.

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  1. How is he going to delete all the pics of his beautiful brown wife and their gorgeous brown babies? Because that’s what’s going to keep him from winning the GOP nod in OH.

  2. Whiteout? :thinking:

  3. Avatar for tena tena says:

    Why does the man want to run for political office? I really know next to nothing about him.

  4. No amount of scrubbing and scouring of his past will rid him of the stench of hypocrisy.

  5. There’s nobody left in the GQP Trump KKKult who ISN’T a pandering grifter.

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