Billionaire Peter Thiel gives $10 million to super PAC backing potential JD Vance Senate bid in Ohio

Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder, donated $10 million to a super PAC seeking to recruit author J.D. Vance to run for the Republican Senate nomination in Ohio.

The super PAC Protect Ohio Values, which describes itself as a "network of grassroots conservatives" encouraging Vance's candidacy, also received a "significant" donation from the conservative mega-donor Mercer Family, Bryan Lanza, a communications adviser to the group, told The Hill, though did not say how much the Mercer's donation was worth.

Thiel's contribution was first reported on Monday by the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Vance is a venture capitalist and author, who rose to prominence for his 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy that has since been made into a Netflix film of the same name. He grew up in Middletown, Ohio, and now lives in Cincinnati.

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