Love him or hate him, now that J.D. Vance has clinched the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate from Ohio, Democrats are getting nervous. Based on a lot of the political chatter out there, it looks like Vance stands a better than decent chance of winning the race.
In @JDVance1, Ohio Democrats have their nightmare, a boot-strapped hard-scrabble Appalachian to blue-collar voters, a Yale-educated businessman to suburbanites. @TimRyan will have to win the suburbs big, but don't count on it. w/ @jazmineulloa https://t.co/beluLOVce2
— Jonathan Weisman (@jonathanweisman) May 5, 2022
Liberal “historian” Kevin Kruse — who is a Professor of History at Princeton University — doesn’t live in Ohio, but he nonetheless fancies himself an expert on Ohio politics (and on many other subjects). And for the record, he thinks that J.D. Vance is just a privileged Cincinnati suburbanite who doesn’t know the first thing about the working class:
He’s from the Cincinnati suburbs. The only hard scrabble there is when someone lands a Z on a triple word score https://t.co/706FBV932J
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) May 6, 2022
Wow, Kevin. You sure got ‘im!
Or at least you tried. All you did was miss your target and give yourself a big black eye.
https://twitter.com/joebob52069825/status/1522387961911955456
er, no. I yield to no one in despising Vance and in eagerness to vote against him in Nov.
But Middletown, Ohio, is very much *not* a suburb of Cincinnati, and is far closer to the derided description of hardscrabble than you'd like to believe.
I know. I live here.
— Lance Salyers 🇺🇦🌻 (@lancesalyers) May 6, 2022
That’s exactly what it is. And there’s nothing subtle about it.
Ohio is full of Appalachians who relocated to the state (including Middletown, which is not a Cincinnati suburb) and spent weekends and summers in rural Kentucky, as Vance did.
Suggesting otherwise is a myth. https://t.co/JHPSAs652e
— Mark Youngkin 🇺🇦 (@mayoungkin) May 6, 2022
Suggesting that Kevin Kruse is an expert on anything — history or otherwise — is also a myth.
https://twitter.com/RBPundit/status/1522583153424187393
I mean this F-ing guy from Princeton, New Jersey thinks Middletown, Ohio is a "Cincinnati suburb." Even people on the left in his mentions in Ohio are telling him that it's not an accurate characterization of where JD Vance is from and grew up.https://t.co/D95tW8xFqF
— Sarcastic Cupcake (@SarcasticCupcak) May 6, 2022
Poor Kevin just wanted the dunk so badly.
I am begging blue checks to learn a single thing about Ohio before tweeting about it.
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) May 6, 2022
Lib blue-checks aren’t known for learning from their mistakes. Kevin Kruse is no exception.
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