Was jane timken, she got less than 10% of the vote. let s walk over to another wall to try to get a sense of how the trump endorsement did help j.d. vance. this is the ultimate sign. if you look at this polling share pre endorsement for j.d. vance, where was he at? he was at just 14% of the vote. look at the vote share in the actual returns, 32% of the vote. stuff like that does not happen by accident. something changed in this race and it wasn t that all of a sudden j.d. vance became j.d. mandel and basically became someone else. no. what happened was j.d. vance got the donald trump endorsement and that was more than enough to double his vote share from the pre-election polls to what we saw in the return. this is one of those cases that but for the trump endorsement we wouldn t be here. it s pretty clear in this case.
Take power and he wants to do it any way he can, and that s fine, he is allowed to do that, it s america, it wouldn t be the first politician who got a billionaire to back him to try to seek elected office, but i think right now when you look at our campaign, 97% of our donations are under $100. this is a people-powered campaign and that s really what ohio is about. so we look forward to the contrast and, you know, we ve been here 20 years working our rear ends off and i think the ohio voter understands that and that s why we re going to win. what role do you think the 2020 election will have in this race and the january 6th insurrection? well, i think it s alienated j.d. vance from the normal thinking voter who recognizes that the election wasn t stolen. again, 23% of the republican primary voters voted for an
The less well-educated counties. how about geography. this to me, again, was there this idea that, you know, j.d. vance would do well because he wrote that book hillbilly elegy and that was about his appalachian values that his family brought him up on. in the 32 counties in appalachia j.d. vance got 36% of the vote. the rest of ohio j.d. vance got 31% of the vote. there wasn t this split by geography that a lot of were expecting. did he not have this special appeal in appalachia. can tim ryan hold on to some of those traditional democratic voters in appalachia. the suggestion in these results is that j.d. vance does not appeal to appalachia in the way we perhaps might have expected. how about the general election?