Ohio Senate candidate Jane Timken’s campaign launched a six-figure ad campaign on Friday, kicking off with an ad targeting Anthony Fauci on the issue of masks.The Hill was the first outlet to report on the news of the ad campaign.
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The Republican Party is changing, and voters should be encouraged by some of the people throwing their hats in the ring for 2022. Thinking about the coming election cycle, I recalled comments made by Eric Weinstein in an interview with Glenn Beck. There are a fair number of leaders in Washington, D.C., who were born before 1950. The United States must get back about the business of innovation, according to Weinstein. Despite my baseline political differences with him, on this point I fundamentally agree.
To do this, we need people in government who understand technology and business in the 21st Century. Currently, the Biden administration is offering solutions that are relics of the early-to-mid-20th Century. It is a strange thing indeed that the policies presented, such as unconditioned welfare, government jobs programs, massive government spending, and compulsory unionization inside traditional employment arrangements, are the ideas of people who term themselve
Ryan launched a longshot bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, betting that his blue-collar background and deep ties to the industrial Youngstown region would appeal to ancestral Democratic voters who had helped send Trump to the White House in 2016.
But his campaign failed to pick up momentum, and he dropped out of the nominating contest months before the Iowa caucuses.
Despite his unsuccessful presidential campaign, Ryan has been floated as a top contender for the Senate in Ohio. Portman’s announcement earlier this year that he would not seek reelection in 2022 turbocharged speculation that Ryan could make a run for the seat.
By Max Greenwood - 03/15/21 12:35 PM EDT
Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder, donated $10 million to a super PAC seeking to recruit author J.D. Vance to run for the Republican Senate nomination in Ohio.
The super PAC Protect Ohio Values, which describes itself as a “network of grassroots conservatives” encouraging Vance’s candidacy, also received a “significant” donation from the conservative mega-donor Mercer family, Bryan Lanza, a communications adviser to the PAC, told The Hill, though did not say how much the Mercer’s donation was worth.
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Vance is a venture capitalist and author, who rose to prominence for his 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy that has since been made into a Netflix film of the same name. He grew up in Middletown, Ohio, and now lives in Cincinnati.