 As has been documented, including on NPR's Fresh Air in 2016, Vance was a never-Trumper before he was one of Trump's biggest supporters. The Ohio-born former Marine, Ohio State and Yale Law graduate, venture capitalist, and author of the best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy, once called Trump an idiot and worried he would be, quote, America's Hitler. But when Vance entered the seven-way Republican primary for U.S. Senate in 2022,