Once again, the nation is struggling to find a way to stop mass shootings like the one at a Buffalo supermarket recently and the one at a Texas school Tuesday.
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There seems to be an assumption out in Punditry Land that this will be a safe seat for the GOP in 2022 – an open seat because of the somewhat dubious belief that Ohio has turned red. Red now; red forever.
Assumptions, though, are dangerous things in politics. Events intervene. Stuff happens. What looks like a sure thing now may not be so certain in 2022.
Still, there s no doubt that Republicans should be optimistic.
Last November, Donald Trump won Ohio by eight percentage points – the first time since 1960 that Ohio did not go to the winner of the presidential election.
The Ohio GOP has skunked the Democrats in non-judicial statewide contests for over a decade, with the lone exception being the senior senator from Ohio, Sherrod Brown.
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Rob Portman: A Man for All Seasons U.S. Sen. Rob Portman is pictured with a copy of The Highland County Press in Wilmington during a 2010 interview with Rory Ryan, who may or may not have planted the newspaper. (HCP file photo by Brandy Chandler.) Without researching it, I can only guess how many times I either suggested that U.S. Sen. Rob Portman should run for president of the United States or be on the presidential ticket.
The logical answer is five. Every four years, from 2000-16, I mentioned Rob Portman as a potential POTUS candidate – as did many much more serious minds across the country. In a Feb. 9, 2015
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Show Transcript FOR A NONPARTISAN APPROACH TO THE CURRENT CRISIS. WHETHER IT S INVOKING THE 25TH AMENDMENT OR IMPEACHING A PRESIDENT WITH NINE DAYS LEFT IN OFFICE, SECOND DISTRICT CONGRESSMAN BELIEVES NOTHING PRODUCTIVE WILL COME OF IT. YOU KNOW, I JUST THINK AT THIS TIME WHAT IS BEST FOR THE COUNTRY IS FOR US TO JUST LET IT GO. THE PRESIDENT HAS COME OUT AND FINALLY SAID THAT THERE WILL BE A TRANSITION, AND I THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE SAID. AND I THINK HE SHOULD ASK PEOPLE TO NO LONGER ACT OUT. HE S A CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN WHO SUPPORTS PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HIS POLICIES. DEMOCRATS WHO DO NOT ARE NEVERTHELESS WORRIED ABOUT DEEPENING THE RED-BLUE AMERICAN DIVIDE. OHIO SENATOR SHERROD BROWN IS LIB EARLY DEMOCRAT. I HOPE THAT THE CABINET AND THE VICE-PRESIDENT INVOKE THE 25TH AMENDMEN
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Supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol Building Wednesday afternoon, interrupting the congressional session that was meeting to confirm the Electoral College votes.
Hundreds of protesters were shown on television news coverage walking through Statuary Hall without having gone through any security checkpoints. Debate was halted, and lawmakers were ordered to return to their offices and shelter in place. Legislators were told they may need to hide under their chairs and to be quiet and not draw attention to themselves.