The Hillbilly Elegy author-turned-venture capitalist based his primary campaign on everything he said he abhorred about the former president’s 2016 run. It worked
ran into Vance at the urinal stalls just outside of the watch-party ballroom. Asked how he felt at that point with the race too close to call, the Trump-endorsed contender simply said, “As good as I could feel right now.”declared him the winner at 9:34 p.m. EDTOver the past year, the GOP Senate primary in the Buckeye State has stood out as perhaps the most shambolically MAGA race of the 2022 cycle.
More than any other primary in the country during this critical midterm election year, this intra-MAGA fight has accentuated the giddily Trumpist, far-right momentum animating the mainstream Republican Party in the Biden era — and which will likely continue to animate it well beyond 2024.Vance’s win may be the strongest testament yet to Trump’s power over the Republican base.
Trump’s endorsement did not come easily, and the former president reportedly had not made up his mind about which candidate to back until soon before he announced it publicly. Days before he did, Trump spoke on the phone with David McIntosh, the president of Club for Growth, the Republican group backing Mandel. A few hours later, he spoke to Tucker Carlson, one of Vance’s most powerful allies.
Trump came around to Vance despite Vance’s history of bashing Trump prior to the 2016 election. Vance called Trump an “idiot” and “reprehensible.” He said in interviews that if Trump were to win, it would be
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