The left-wing media apparatus, along with Democrats and ‘progressive’ talking heads on all their networks, are trying to pan former President Donald Trump’s pick of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) as the wrong decision. But a new statistic proves otherwise. Vance’s best-selling book “Hillbilly Elegy” has returned to the top spot as the No. 1 bestselling book in the U.S. this week. Sources close to the campaign told Fox News Digital that this shows voters are interested in getting to know former President Trump’s running mate.
The book, first published in June 2016, has surged to the top of major bestseller lists this week, including The New York Times, Publisher’s Weekly, and USA Today. Additionally, the film adaptation of the memoir, released in 2020, has experienced a boost in viewership following Trump’s announcement of Vance as his running mate. The film has climbed to No. 9 on Netflix’s Top 10 Movies list, with sources informing Fox News Digital that it has amassed nearly six million hours of viewing time, the outlet reported.
Vance’s commercial success comes as he has faced criticism from pundits and the left due to a comment he made in 2021 about women without children. But a source close to the Trump campaign said the renewed success of “Hillbilly Elegy” just shows 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,” said a source close to the Trump campaign. “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.”
More recently, Vance has dealt with headaches as an interview from 2021 resurfaced, in which he said, “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 specifically mentioned Vice President Kamala Harris and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., as part of this group in that interview.
This week, the Harris campaign, along with prominent Democrats such as Hillary Clinton and actress Jennifer Aniston, criticized Vance, accusing him of undermining the value of women who either do not have children or cannot have them under typical circumstances, Fox noted. Vance has said Democrats have taken his comments “out of context and blow it out of proportion, which is what they always do because they don’t have an agenda to run on themselves.” Also, a Vance spokesperson told Fox that “the left-wing 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,” Vance spokesperson Taylor Van Kirk said. “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, stating that the critics are “absolutely absurd.” He added in an interview with Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade: “We’re about fighting for the working women of the United States, the forgotten people of the middle class. 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.”
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