Group backing ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ author for Senate gets $10M from investor Peter Thiel
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Billionaire Peter Thiel has donated $10 million to a group backing “Hillbilly Elegy” author J.D. Vance for a potential 2022 Senate campaign in Ohio. Vance, whose memoir about his troubled Appalachian upbringing was made into a popular movie available on Netflix, would face a crowded Republican primary against locally well-known figures including ex-state Treasurer Josh...