J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” book sales and viewership of the movie based off his bestseller have soared after former President Donald Trump named the Ohio Senator his vice presidential pick.
Following Trump’s announcement on Monday that Vance would be his running-mate in the 2024 election, Amazon sales for the VP nominee’s 2016 book in paperback and hardcover catapulted it to the best seller list, The Hill reported.
As of Tuesday morning, “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” was in the number one and two spot on Amazon, The Hill noted. Before the announcement on Monday, the book was at number 220, the Associated Press noted.
By Monday night, the AP reported that sales for “Hillbilly Elegy” totaled at least 1.6 million copies.
By the same note, after Trump’s VP pick was announced, viewership on Netflix for the movie based on Vance’s…
