Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance after bankrolling former President Donald Trump.
Bob Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, who were instrumental in Trumpâs 2016 rise, made a âsignificant contributionâ to Protect Ohio Values, a super PAC formed last month to back Vanceâs likely bid, Bryan Lanza, a spokesman for the PAC and a former Trump aide, told the
Cincinnati Enquirer. The Mercers have also funded the far-right news outlet Breitbart, the far-right social network Parler, the Brexit campaign and such right-wing lawmakers as Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Josh Hawley of Missouri, who pushed false claims about the election ahead of the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Mercers, Peter Thiel drop millions to back “Hillbilly Elegy” author s possible Senate run Salon 3/16/2021 Rebekah Mercer, J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images
The Mercer family and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel are backing a possible Senate run by Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance after bankrolling former President Donald Trump.
Bob Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, who were instrumental in Trump s 2016 rise, made a significant contribution to Protect Ohio Values, a super PAC formed last month to back Vance s likely bid, Bryan Lanza, a spokesman for the PAC and a former Trump aide, told the Cincinnati Enquirer. The Mercers have also funded the far-right news outlet Breitbart, the far-right social network Parler, the Brexit campaign and such right-wing lawmakers as Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Josh Hawley of Missouri, who pushed false claims about the election ahead of the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
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Billionaire tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel has contributed $10 million to a super PAC supporting a likely Republican bid for the U.S. Senate bid in Ohio by investor and
Hillbilly Elegy memoir author J.D. Vance.
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.
The development was first reported by the
Vance, 36, rose to prominence after
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