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âHillbilly Elegyâ Author JD Vance May See Next Chapter Focus on Run for Ohio’s U.S. Senate Seat
Apr 18, 2021
FILE â In this Nov. 16, 2016, file photo, J.D. Vance, author of the best-selling memoir "Hillbilly Elegy," poses for a photograph at Miami University's student center in Oxford, Ohio. Vance, whose book helped explain to the nation Donald Trump's popularity among the Appalachian working class, is "thinking seriously" about running for the U.S. Senate seat Republican two-term incumbent Rob Portman decided against seeking again in 2022. (AP Photo/Dan Sewell, File)
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (AP) — Rodney Muterspaw figures J.D. Vance has already shown he’s got what it takes to be a U.S. senator.