EXPLANATIONS: 1A- Vote in= leading letters of Egomaniac Leveling etc 4A- HARRIS losing R (Republic) and anag. 5A- SE(EnemY)A
1D- Every second letter of lEfT wHoOpSy 2D- vancE LITErature (also a reference to JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy) 3D- stale anag.