Pro-J.D. Vance super PAC goes up with ad ahead of Ohio GOP Senate bid launch

A well-financed outside group supporting J.D. Vance’s Republican campaign for the Senate in Ohio is going up with a statewide ad as the venture capitalist and the author of the best-selling memoir "Hillbilly Elegy” gets ready to announce his candidacy in the 2022 race to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Rob Portman.

"I’m worried that we’re increasingly becoming the type of country where stories like mine don’t happen as often – where the American dream seems to be in crisis," Vance says in the commercial. "We have for the first time in our history a ruling class, an elite, who don’t actually care about the American nation and the people who live in it," he charges. "It’s why they’re so willing to ship our manufacturing jobs and our industrial base to China. It’s why their immigration policies have created an incredible crisis at our southern border…Somebody’s gotta criticize it and somebody’s got to fight against it."