Senate Candidate JD Vance Says He Regrets Old Social Media Posts Criticizing Trump

Rise of the Rest Seed Fund managing partner J.D. Vance speaks onstage during Day 2 of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, Calif., on Sept. 6, 2018. Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch

J.D. Vance, who recently announced his bid for the open Ohio senate seat becoming the fifth GOP candidate, apologized for past social media posts that criticized then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.

“Like a lot of people, I criticized Trump back in 2016,” said Vance, author of best-selling book “Hillbilly Elegy.”