Washed Up 45 Endorses The Hillbilly Elegy!

Washed Up 45 goes for the elitist instead of the conservative.

I have the Ohio race for the U.S. Senate as LEAN REPUBLICAN.

This will rankle many of the Republicans who are vying for the U.S. Senate race in Ohio.

It appears that the former president has decided to pick a candidate who many conservatives believe is not really "America First."

On top of that, it knocks the wind out of the perennial Karen Mandel, the former Ohio treasurer who ran twice and never got off the ground. It also deflates the Karen Gibbons momentum. The white nationalist was leading in the polls in the primary but it appears this endorsement will shoot Moron Vance to the top.

45: It is time for the entire MAGA movement, the greatest in the history of our Country, to unite behind J.D.’s campaign … he will put America First. In other words, J.D. Vance has my Complete and Total Endorsement. He will not let you down. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! pic.twitter.com/zGFuAbLxnx

— Taylor Budowich (@TayFromCA) April 15, 2022

The candidate is from Middletown, Ohio and is venture capitalist who appeared on Fox and CNN.

He is described as "liberal media's favorite white trash-splainer."

He wrote the book, Hillbilly Elegy. It described the social problems facing Appalachia. He said that many of family members went through drugs and criminal acts. He complained about welfare recipients talking on cell phones and getting luxury foods while he struggled. He claims that former president Barack Obama's economic policies and President Joe Biden's policies hurt Appalachian values.

He and many of the candidates running are vowing to fight against Biden. They also vow to keep critical race theory from schools, protecting the southern border, stopping socialism and keeping the country white.

"In the great state of Ohio, the candidate most qualified and ready to win is J.D. Vance. We cannot play games. It is all about winning!" Washed Up 45 said in a Friday statement. 

"This is not an easy endorsement for me to make because I like and respect some of the other candidates in the race – they've said some great things about "Trump" and, like me, they love Ohio and they love our Country," Washed Up 45 added. "I've studied this race closely and I think J.D. is the most likely to take out the weak, but dangerous, Democrat opponent – because they will have so much money to spend." 

The endorsement comes after an all-hands effort from the other Republican candidates and many Ohio GOP officials to stop it. That effort culminated in a letter Thursday, first reported by Fox, which urged Washed Up 45 not to endorse any candidate in the race. 

The letter, which Fox obtained from a source affiliated with one of the GOP Senate campaigns, takes aim at Vance's opposition to the former president ahead of the 2016 presidential election. "We do not support JD Vance for the aforementioned reasons and would urge you not to endorse anyone in this race," the letter to Washed Up 45 states.

Which Karen will be the Republican nominee for Ohio's open U.S. Senate race?

Mike Gibbons

Jane Timken

JD Vance

Josh Mandel

Matt Dolan

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Karen Timken, a former Ohio GOP chair who is also running in the GOP Senate primary, Friday said she is still the person to win in the general election despite Washed Up 45's endorsement. 

Mandel and Gibbons get into each other's face at a forum.

"This race is about who can defeat Tim Ryan and retake the Republican Senate majority in November. I am that candidate and I look forward to having President Trump’s endorsement in the General Election," she said. "While today’s announcement is disappointing, it does not change the fact that I had President Trump’s endorsement to serve as chair of the Ohio Republican Party, where I’m incredibly proud to have dismantled the Never-Trump Kasich establishment and turned Ohio into a pro-Trump, conservative stronghold."

A source familiar with how the endorsement went down told Fox that Washed Up 45 "thinks Moron is the most with him on the issues, is the best on TV ,and just presents the best overall."

The source added that the former president watched the clips of Karen Mandel and Karen Gibbons nearly come to blows at a recent debate and "thought they looked like clowns," adding that that episode ended any possibility that the former president would endorse either Gibbons or Mandel, who in recent public opinion polls, including a Fox poll from early March, were the slight front-runners over the other major contenders.