An early test of Trump’s clout in Ohio special election
An early test of Trump’s clout in Ohio special election
Trump-backed coal lobbyist Mike Carey leads the GOP field, but in a crowded, off-year primary, will results be more than just statistical noise?
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In some ways, the special election next Tuesday in Ohio’s deep-red 15th Congressional District has come to be viewed as an early test of former President Donald Trump’s prevailing influence within the GOP.
The crowded Republican primary in the suburbs of southern Columbus is pitting a Trump-backed former energy lobbyist, Mike Carey, against Jeff LaRe, a state legislator endorsed by the moderate former incumbent, Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH), who vacated his seat in mid-May to lead the Ohio Chamber of Commerce.
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Within a week, Pope Francis and two prominent black men took steps that can only benefit the Jewish people in a follow-up, perhaps coincidental, to a rally of Jews and others who gathered near Capitol Hill to protest anti-Semitism.
The July 11 event in Washington, D.C., with an estimated 3,200 people at most, is hardly a resounding triumph in and of itself. I even yawned watching TV snippets of the demonstration.
What is critical are these elements: that organizers launched a coordinated drive against anti-Semitism; organizers appear to be persistent in expanding upon it; and allies acted to help the Jewish community, the latter step of which appears to be coincidental. Who knows?