Trumpbilly Elegy

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🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Liberals turned to J.D. Vance’s book to better understand Donald Trump’s victory. Now the “Hillbilly Elegy” author is turning to Trump to try and win the Republican primary in Ohio’s Senate race. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's today explained I'm Newell King, you are?
0:08.5	I'm Howard Wilkinson, senior politically analyst at 91.7WVXU in Cincinnati.
0:17.9	I love it.
0:18.9	How long have you been covering politics and analyzing politics in your neck of Ohio?
0:23.5	Well, all over Ohio since 1974.
0:28.6	Since 1974, so JD Vance was negative 10 years old when you started.
0:33.6	That would be correct.
0:34.7	Most people would be negative, yes.
0:38.7	Coming up, James David Vance and the most bananas that's a quote, Republican primary
0:44.2	in America.
0:45.5	But it tells us about a party that might be in disarray or might be finding its way.
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1:36.4	JD Vance is a figure of national importance these days, but he made his bones with a
1:40.4	best-selling memoir about growing up in white working class Ohio.
1:44.8	It's one of those books that strives to explain a place and its people, which is why we wanted
1:49.8	to talk to Howard Wilkinson, who knows the place and the people.
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