PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel has donated $10 million to a super PAC supporting "Hillbilly Elegy" author J.D. Vance in his possible bid for the Republican nomination for a Senate seat in Ohio.
PayPal co-founder and billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel is contributing $10 million of his own money into a super PAC that would support a potential GOP Senate run in Ohio by fellow venture capitalist J.D. Vance, the author of the best-selling memoir "Hillbilly Elegy.”
By Max Greenwood - 03/15/21 12:35 PM EDT
Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder, donated $10 million to a super PAC seeking to recruit author J.D. Vance to run for the Republican Senate nomination in Ohio.
The super PAC Protect Ohio Values, which describes itself as a “network of grassroots conservatives” encouraging Vance’s candidacy, also received a “significant” donation from the conservative mega-donor Mercer family, Bryan Lanza, a communications adviser to the PAC, told The Hill, though did not say how much the Mercer’s donation was worth.
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Vance is a venture capitalist and author, who rose to prominence for his 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy that has since been made into a Netflix film of the same name. He grew up in Middletown, Ohio, and now lives in Cincinnati.
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