'Hillbilly Elegy' director: 'There's no version of me voting for Donald Trump'
The director of the 2020 movie based on Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s (R) book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” said that he won't be casting a vote for former President Trump despite Vance being his VP in a video posted Saturday.
“There's no version of me voting for Donald Trump to be president again, whoever the Vice President was,” Ron Howard said in a video from Variety.
Howard had previously said in 2022 that he was “surprised by some of the positions [Vance has] taken and statements he’s made.”
“I always knew he was conservative, but [he] struck me as a very center-right, a kind of a moderate thinker,” Howard told The Hollywood Reporter at the time.
In the Variety video, Howard stated that he has worried about the "rhetoric coming out of" the current GOP ticket, which features Trump and Vance. He also urged people to “listen to what the candidates are saying, today” versus basing their opinions on their past perceptions of the candidates.
“That’s what’s really relevant, it’s who they are today,” Howard continued.
The Hill has reached out to the Trump campaign and a spokesperson for Vance.
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