Republican J.D. Vance says “pharmaceutical blood money” is fueling Rep. Tim Ryan’s (D-OH) Senate campaign in Ohio.
During a debate on Monday evening, Ryan attacked Vance for having opened a nonprofit to help the victims of the nation’s opioid crisis which he claims “didn’t spend one nickel on anybody.”
As Vance famously wrote in his best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy, his mother struggled with opioid addiction for years before getting sober. Vance called Ryan’s attack “shameful” and “dishonest lies.”
“I put $80,000 of my own money into that nonprofit, Tim, and it absolutely did help people,” Vance said.
