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OH-Sen: "I really am ashamed to say I’m a Republican. It’s embarrassing." [1]

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Date: 2022-09-08

J.D. Vance (R. OH)

I’ll get to that money quote I have in my title in just a second. But first, this:

A GOP group aligned with a former staffer for Sen. Rob Portman is hoping to rally Ohio swing voters against J.D. Vance as part of a national effort to block Republican candidates who cast doubt on the 2020 presidential election. The Republican Accountability Project is launching a $500,000 digital campaign featuring Republican voters in Ohio who plan to cast ballots for Vance's opponent, U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan. The organization hopes to undermine candidates in key states such as Arizona and Pennsylvania who aligned themselves with former President Donald Trump and peddled false claims about election fraud. "These are all people who voted Republican their entire lives, and they don’t recognize the party," founder Sarah Longwell said. "I think 2017 J.D. Vance would say the same thing.” Among the group's key backers is John Bridgeland, a Cincinnati native and Republican who worked in Portman's congressional office. Bridgeland decided to support Ryan after seeing Vance walk back past criticisms of Trump and seek his support in the contentious GOP primary for Portman's seat.

Now that is a small investment but according to Longwell, it is a targeted buy aimed at winning over Republican voters who can’t stand Vance. As we have been seeing in polling, there’s certainly a section of Republican voters that won’t back Vance because Governor Mike DeWine (R. OH) has been over performing Vance by double digits. But here is the targets group of voters is going after:

Ohio Republicans who provided testimonials for the campaign said Vance can't be trusted because of his inconsistent views on Trump, something the "Hillbilly Elegy" author has been open about on the campaign trail. Former state Rep. Joan Lawrence said she'll support Gov. Mike DeWine and other Republicans in the November election, but she's unwilling to vote for Vance because of his fealty to the former president. She also believes the Republican Party as a whole no longer respects the separation of church and state enshrined in the Constitution. "I really am ashamed to say I’m a Republican," Lawrence said. "It’s embarrassing."

I can’t blame this section of Republican voters for being embarrassed by Vance:

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