First big setback for Joe Biden. Republican JD Vance, nicknamed by former President Donald Trump, was elected senator from Ohio on Tuesday, according to US media estimates, a great disappointment for the Democratic president in one of the states with the highest stakes during these midterm elections.
This former soldier, author of a successful book on the white middle class, thus won a seat vacated by a Republican against Democrat Tim Ryan, according to ABC and NBC channels.
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Political newcomer James David Vance, 37, made a name for himself by publishing “Hillbilly Elegy” in 2016, a best-selling account of his modest and chaotic childhood in a working-class Ohio town, which became a symbol of the degradation of white America.
Having become a financial investor in California, he entered politics last year before winning his party’s primary by closing in on Donald Trump.
“JD wants my support so much that he sucks me off,” the billionaire scoffed during one of their meetings in September.
Midterm elections are traditionally unfavorable for the party in the White House.
Source: BFM TV
