OPINION: Ohio Republicans 'know that if Donald Trump picked the wrong horse in Ohio’s Republican senatorial primary, that will shake up politics in Ohio – and, maybe, nationally,' writes columnist Thomas Suddes.
One key question about Tuesday’s statewide primary election: How much clout does former President Donald Trump have in Ohio?a Middletown native and author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” to be Ohio Republicans’ 2022 U.S. Senate nominee. Two-term incumbent Republican Sen. Rob Portman, of suburban Cincinnati’s Terrace Park, is retiring.
Also seeking the Senate nomination are state Sen. Matt Dolan, of Chagrin Falls, chair of the state Senate’s budget-writing Finance Committee, who usually seems to be the only adult in the room; former Republican State Chair Jane Timken, of Canton, whom Portman supports; and Delaware Countians Neil Patel and Mark Pukita, who are businesspeople.
But if Trump placed a bad bet, avid Ohio Republicans will inch away from the former president in search of the Next Big Thing in a GOP that’s now fueled by sensation, not principle. , bolstering him to face either of two Democratic ex-mayors — Cincinnati’s John Cranley or Dayton’s Nan Whaley — in November’s election?
It’s hard to believe, but the intra-GOP rap on DeWine is that he’s not conservative enough, that he went too far in trying to save Ohioans’ lives amid the COVID-19 pandemic. To some people on the right, to succeed – which DeWine did as to COVID-19 – evidently is to fail.
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