
Univision, NASCAR, ESPN and Macy’s “Dump” Trump? He wanted to get back to discussing policy, and he certainly did not want to re-litigate the last election.The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump

But he said he wanted his own campaign to remain focused on Ohio. Trump “did a lot of good things for Ohio,” Mr. Trump but has attempted to put some distance between himself and Mr. He is the only Republican candidate who supports Mr. Dolan, who has served in the statehouse since 2017 and whose family owns the Cleveland Guardians baseball team, has been walking in his own lonely lane. “If it has to be a Republican, I hope it is you,” Rich Evans, 69, a retired educator, told him, as he stopped manicuring his lawn to shake hands.įrom the beginning, Mr. But on his route, he was just as likely to encounter Democrats and independents who were backing his candidacy - or simply cheering him on. He was making a last-minute push to get voters to the polls, and on his target list were registered Republicans who had yet to cast a ballot.

Dolan knocked on doors in an affluent suburb just south of Cleveland. He added for emphasis, “I’m not going to disavow them because some scumbag who doesn’t have the best interest of Ohio at heart wants me to.” “There is nothing more disgusting in politics than the way that leadership asks you to stab your friends in the back,” he said before heading with them to West Chester, outside Cincinnati. Gaetz to barnstorm through Ohio with him on the closing weekend of the primary campaign. Vance was asked by a reporter why he invited Ms. “That’s in the DNA in Ohio,” said Representative Tim Ryan, the likely Democratic nominee for the coming Senate race. Trump.īut economic themes in general - and the China threat in particular - resonated. The one income group that President Biden won in this state in 2020 was that of voters who earn less than $50,000. Vance speaks of on the stump - were hardly the down-and-out white workers central to his memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy.” But an unspoken truth is, his audience is the true core of the pro-Trump vote in Ohio. The people in that room - just off a verdant golf course, far away from the illegal immigrant, drug-infested cities that Mr. Senate to go and play a different game, a game where we put our citizens and the people in this room first,” he said to cheers. “That is the game they play, and I’m running for the U.S.

“The reason that we’re going to win on Tuesday is because we have this army of Christian warriors throughout the state,’’ he pledged. nomination in the race for secretary of state.įitting the setting, the largely older crowd in the pews called out encouraging “amens!” or groaned audibly when Mr.

