- Rolling Stone recently heard Tim Ryan tell Rolling Stone that he rejects any “bullcrap” from Democrats who are not contesting Ohio.
- The Democratic Senate nominee stated that it was insulting to suggest that the state be snubbed.
- Ryan and JD Vance remain locked in a tight race as the campaign enters its final stretch.
Ohio, once an iconic Midwestern state, has not voted in a Democratic presidential nominee for the first time since Barack Obama was elected to a second term.
Sen. Sherrod brown, the first Democratic statewide elected official, has been a long-term success story in a Republican-leaning state.
Some Democrats even have it! arguedFunding for political candidates should be spent in swing states such as Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina because they perceive Ohio as being beyond their reach.
It’s a mindset that Rep. Tim Ryan, this year’s Democratic Senate nominee, has wholeheartedly rejected — pointing to the need for the party to once again engage with the working-class voters who had traditionally been a major part of the party’s base.
Ryan ran a very competitive race against JD Vance, the Republican Senate nominee. This surprised many Democrats who were skeptical about Ryan’s ability to win the Buckeye State.
Rep. for the Mahoning Valley (which includes Youngstown), is a ten-term congressman. Rolling StoneHe stated that he would “fight anybody” who openly believed that states with higher college graduation rates were more likely to be purple-trending.
During a stop in Lima, Ohio (a city in northwest Ohio), he declared that he will fight anyone from any party that’s trying “to peddle the bullcrap here” in Ohio. “If you need a college degree to get the passport to be able to go into the political party — no shot on my watch.”
He said, “It is so insulting.”
Despite Minimal national Democratic spendingRyan has raised $47.3 Million for his campaign, as of October 19, OpenSecrets.
The congressman has been barnstorming the state for all of this year, forcing national Republicans into pouring millions of dollars into a state they thought they wouldn’t have to defend.
While Vance still retains many advantages — including potential coattails from the likely reelection victory of Gov. Mike DeWine and the GOP tint of the state’s rural and exurban areas — Ryan has remained in the game.
