Kate Scanlon at The Washington Examiner has an update on the upcoming Ohio primary
for U.S. Senate:
Businessman Mike Gibbons is rising
in early polls of Ohio’s crowded Republican Senate primary, and he is seeking
to introduce himself to voters as the pro-Trump candidate in the race,
according to a new advertisement campaign he will launch Tuesday.
Former President Donald Trump has
yet to make an endorsement in the race to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Rob
Portman, but several Republican candidates are actively courting that
endorsement in a race that has largely been driven by the candidates’ level of
fealty to Trump. Author J.D. Vance recently promoted an endorsement from Rep.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a controversial freshman lawmaker from Georgia who is a
close ally of Trump.
A pair of polls showed Gibbons making significant gains with
voters in recent days. One internal campaign poll showed him in the lead with 23%, with Josh Mandel, the
former Ohio treasurer and the party’s 2012 Senate nominee, trailing him at
10.8%. An independent poll from Co/Efficient also found Gibbons in the lead but
with Mandel in closer proximity.
Read more here. This
primary race is important, and one of my concerns is that at least one Ohio liberty
group is endorsing Josh Mandel. I
posted a few months ago on why I think Mandel is not a good choice for Ohio (“Josh
Mandel Just Another Dishonest RINO” ~ click here). I would expect him to be no different than
Rob Portman in office.
Check out Mike Gibbons's website here.
Mr. Mandel with William Kristol. Not a good look.
Mr. Mandel’s early fund-raising letter attempted to brand him as a Trump-supporter. After what I infer was some push-back, a subsequent fund-raiser instead piggy-backed on the “America First” slogan:
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