WASHINGTON — A series of weekly congressional primaries in May starts Tuesday in Ohio and Indiana, and the outcomes over the coming weeks will help settle or add fuel to
The first attack ads of Ohio’s Republican U.S. Senate primary race are hitting the air soon
Updated Apr 30, 2021;
Posted Apr 30, 2021
A group backing former state Treasurer Josh Mandel, seen here in a 2012 file photo, has launched a new TV ad attacking his opponents in the Republican U.S. Senate primary. (AP Photo/Phil Long, File)AP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio More than a year before the election, the first attack ads in what’s expected to be a nasty Republican U.S. Senate primary in Ohio are hitting the airwaves this weekend.
A group called the USA Freedom Fund is running the ads, which boost former State Treasurer Josh Mandel while attacking some of his Republican opponents, former Ohio Republican Party Chairman Jane Timken, investment banker Mike Gibbons and author/investor JD Vance, who hasn’t declared his candidacy but is expected to do so. Tom Datwyler, the treasurer for USA Freedom Fund, also is the treasurer for Mandel’s Senate campaign. The ads includes a
With U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan in the political fight of his life, he was able to do something he’s struggled to do his entire time in Congress: Raise a respectable amount of money when it was desperately needed.
Ryan, D-Howland, received a remarkable $584,186 between Oct. 1 and Nov. 3 in a race he won by 7.55 percent against Republican Christina Hagan of Marlboro Township for the 13th Congressional District seat.
Other members of Congress raised even more money, but it’s been Ryan’s Achilles’ heel his entire political career, which started two decades ago.
It’s stunning to see the amount he raised in little more than a month when you consider his congressional campaign picked up only $73,139 in contributions between April and September 2019. At the time, Ryan was concentrating on his quixotic presidential bid an effort that raised very little money compared to others seeking that office.