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OH-Sen: New Poll Has Rep. Tim Ryan (D) Beating J.D. Vance (R) 50-47 [1]

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Date: 2022-08-29

Rep. Tim Ryan (D. OH-13)

Here’s the latest news today out of Ohio:

The latest poll commissioned by Democrat Tim Ryan’s campaign shows the U.S. Senate race remains a statistical dead heat. The poll by Impact Research, a Democratic firm, shows Ryan with 50 percent support to 47 percent for Vance and 3 percent undecided. The poll has a 3.5 percent plus / minus margin of error. The poll was taken Aug. 17 to 23 of 800 likely general election voters. It indicates Republican J.D. Vance getting more unpopular with voters, but Kyle Kondik, a national expert who analyzes elections for the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics and a northeast Ohio native, said he still believes Vance will win the election. “If Ryan wins, we’ll say the summer was wasted by Vance,” he said. “The clock is starting to tick (toward the Nov. 8 election), and there are signs that Ryan is still in it.”

The poll also gives Ryan an 23 point lead with Independents and with a 49/38 approval rating. Vance has a 39/53 approval rating.

Ryan’s been doing an impressive job defining Vance and trashing Republicans:

x Smart attack by Tim Ryan:



“A small group of people who’ve hijacked the Supreme Court + state legislatures + what they’ve done in the short term and what they’re going to do in the long term is continue to hurt working-class people…” https://t.co/md0shlVHnH — Marcus Baram (@mbaram) August 30, 2022 On Monday’s CNN Tonight, Ryan hammered Republicans on abortion, which the Supreme Court ruled is not a constitutionally protected right, thus overturning 49 years of precedence. Host Victor Blackwell asked Ryan about recent comments by President Joe Biden, who said the Republican Party embraces “semi-fascism.” Ryan has kept Biden at arm’s length, as he is running in a state Donald Trump won twice. However, the congressman did not mince words. “The president said that a portion of the Trump movement, the extreme MAGA philosophy he calls, ‘it’s like semi-fascism,'” Blackwell said. “Does that hurt you with the voters you need to win in November?” Ryan responded: No. Look, it’s straight fascism if you’re storming the Capitol on January 6th, if you’re beating the United States Capitol Police over the head with a lead pipe in order to overturn an election, if you are making bold steps to ban books and to do all of these things that are even to the point where you want to control a woman’s body to the point where if a 10-year-old girl is raped, you say that the government should mandate that pregnancy. You have a Supreme Court justice saying they want to get rid of birth control, nullify marriages. I mean, what else would you talk about? How else do you explain this? Ryan went on to say the Supreme Court has been “hijacked” by right-wingers intent on trampling personal freedom. He also dinged Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who has made a point of attacking businesses who publicly oppose him. “We’re not going to have a great economy if we have a government that’s interfering in everybody’s personal life,” Ryan added. “They want to punish businesses where they don’t agree with the culture like they’re doing down in Florida. Like, this is huge governmental overreach, the largest governmental overreach we’ve seen in our lifetimes. A complete violation of personal freedoms, the free markets, free businesses. This is a governmental attack. And so, these people, you can call it what you want. But to me it seems a lot like people who want to get ahold of the government and punish people and control people.” Ryan concluded, “We’re not going to get in the name-calling. But my goodness gracious, there’s a lot of of people who want to do a lot of controlling out there.”

And he’s been running an excellent campaign:

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