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Bogus narrative that J.D. Vance is a failed veep pick debunked

August 2, 2024 | | Print Article

Sen. J.D. Vance’s memoir is now the bestselling book in America, suggesting that he’s anything but a “failing VP candidate.”

“Vance’s memoir, ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ which was originally published in June 2016, reclaimed the top spot on major bestseller lists this week, including The New York Times, Publisher’s Weekly and USA Today,” Fox News has confirmed.

“A film adaption of the memoir, released in 2020, also has seen an uptick in viewership since Trump named Vance his running mate. The film has shot up to the No. 9 spot on Netflix’s list of top 10 movies. A source familiar [said] that viewers have watched nearly six million hours of the film,” according to Fox News.

A source close to former President Donald Trump’s campaign has said that these numbers prove that the American people aren’t buying the lies being fed to them by Democrats and their devoted corporate media allies.

Specifically, the numbers show that “everyday Americans are rushing to get copies of his personal memoir to get to know the man based on his own words — without any media filter.”

“The mainstream media has been pulling their hair out, insisting JD Vance had a historically bad week on the campaign trail,” the source continued. “In reality, millions of people who have completely lost faith in the media have rushed to buy copies of ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ or gathered with their family to watch the movie at home.”

The success of Vance’s memoir comes amid an effort by Democrats and their media allies to paint him as “weird” for having previously criticized leftist “childless cat ladies.”

“We are effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they wanna make the rest of the country miserable, too,” he said in a 2021 interview.

Vance has defended himself from the flurry of criticism by claiming Democrats have taken his comments “out of context and blown it out of proportion, which is what they always do because they don’t have an agenda to run on themselves.”

A spokesperson for Vance added in a statement to Fox News that “the leftwing media have twisted Senator Vance’s words and spun up a false narrative about his position on the issues.”

“As he clearly stated, he was talking about politicians on the left who support policies that are explicitly anti-child and anti-family,” they added. “The media can obsess over it all they want, but he’s not going to back down when it comes to advocating for policies that protect parental rights and encourage people to have more kids.”

Trump campaign senior adviser Chris LaCivita also defended Vance,  arguing that his critics are being “absolutely absurd.”

“We’re about fighting for the working women of the United States, the forgotten people of the middle class,” he said. “JD Vance is the perfect representation of that.”

“They know it. It scares the hell out of them… They’re going to peddle in fiction and we’re going to have to deal with it as we go forward,” he added.

As previously reported, in 2016, long before Vance became a famous figure, he published a memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” about the working-class community he’d grown up in. The book went on to receive rave reviews for achieving the impossible: Giving the country’s elite an intimate glimpse into the lives of real Americans.

Four years later, director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer turned the book into a feature film that helped drastically expand the reach of Vance’s message and turn him into somewhat of a household name.

Years later, Vance has since been chosen as former President Donald Trump’s vice-presidential running mate for the upcoming 2024 presidential election, turning him into an international star — one whom the left is desperate to tear down.

Vivek Saxena
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