'Hillbilly Elegy' Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance "needs a course correction ASAP"

[Demovictory9]

GOP rank and file - only Trump loving nuts need apply

Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance “needs a course correction ASAP” — and that’s according to the well-funded super PAC supporting him.

A 98-page PowerPoint presentation produced by Tony Fabrizio, who has been polling for the pro-Vance Protect Ohio Values super PAC since last year, paints a dire picture of the candidate’s prospects. According to the slide deck, Vance has seen a “precipitous decline” in Ohio’s GOP Senate primary since last fall, when a pair of outside groups backing a rival began a multimillion-dollar TV advertising blitz using five-year-old footage of Vance attacking former President Donald Trump.

“Driving his negatives is the perception that he is anti-Trump. This has only grown since” November, said the presentation, which is based on polling data of 800 likely primary voters conducted Jan. 18-20.

The Senate race in Ohio is a high-profile example of how Trump is dominating Republican down-ballot primaries, and how his support is seen as make-or-break for those seeking the party’s nomination. Vance refashioned himself as a Trump supporter long ago, but his past comments are sticking to him. Meanwhile, Republican candidates are welding themselves to the former president and aggressively seeking out his endorsement; last spring, a handful of the Ohio Republican candidates met with Trump for an “Apprentice”-style boardroom audition for his support.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/07/jd-vance-warning-ohio-senate-race-00006310

[True Blue American]

1. JD Vance

Says whatever he thinks will sound good at the minute. He has no experience, is as ignorant of the Government as Trump is.

Go back home to your Silicom Valley money and let the grown ups run. Why he is arrogant enough to think he should be in the Senate is beyond me. We already have Rand Paul and Mitch next door.

At least Portman is a decent person.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

2. "a multimillion-dollar TV advertising blitz" during a primary is why we can't have nice things.

One of many reasons, actually.......

[no_hypocrisy]

3. I can understand why Vance and his team believed they could pull this off:

Lindsay Graham got away with it.

Ted Cruz got away with it.

Nobody's talking about how they skewered Trump during the primaries and until Trump had a legitimate base and consequently, the republican establishment embraced him.

Vance believed he could do the same thing.

Not exactly.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. This makes me smile

This asshole's pandering is not working