Tim Ryan wins Ohio primary with 73.7 % of the vote.

[Demsrule86]

Go Tim!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Diamond_Dog]

1. I did my part!

[Demsrule86]

3. I voted for Tim and Shontel among others!

[LiberalFighter]

9. Yeah!!!!!!!

[Demsrule86]

31. It felt great!

[Cha]

30. TY! How's Shontel Doing?

💙💛

[Demsrule86]

33. Shontel is winning...race should be called soon.

Oops the election blurb I posed didn't come up but me giving Nina the finger did...not you Cha!

[Cha]

35. lol.. I didn't even know the Ohio

primary was today.. probably a good thing or I would have been worried sick Longer!

TY

💙💛

[Demsrule86]

38. Another poster just posted that Shontel won...blowout territory.

[Cha]

41. 💙I saw that.. I'm obsessed with

Shontel Winning!

Link to tweet

💙💛

[Demsrule86]

55. I really like Shontel...she is great.

[Chili]

62. me too!

[FakeNoose]

2. Awesome!

Congratulations Tim Ryan and good luck in the general election.

[Demsrule86]

4. If anyone can win this seat, it is Tim Ryan.

[Auggie]

5. Great news!

[Demsrule86]

20. I have real hope the Tim can pull this off...none of the GOP Primary candidates did that well.

And DeWine won not one of Trump's henchmen so...fingers crossed. Tim Ryan is well-liked in Ohio.

[Ms. Toad]

52. Remember the Republican race was a relatively tight 3-way race.

None of Ryan's competitors earned a significant number of votes.

(And, though I can't find it now, I think the overal vote tally for Vance and Ryan was about the same - which does not bode well if the Republicans hold their noses and vote for Vance.)

[spooky3]

6. Congratulations and well done! Now, to take on

JD Mandel, or Josh Vance, or whoever…

[llmart]

11. LOL

I thought it was Barbara Mandel. Oh, who knows what gibberish comes out of his demented mouth/mind.

[spooky3]

12. Hahahaha! Nt

[Demsrule86]

22. Vance is still ahead but not by a great deal.

[Quakerfriend]

7. Awesome! n/t

[Demsrule86]

24. I think so...we need this seat.

[kimbutgar]

8. I can see Tim Ryan taking JD Vance to the woodshed and destroying him in a debate

Tim Ryan will talk about that things matter to people of Ohio while JD will do MAGA bs talking points with no substance.

[Mr.Bill]

15. I'll bet there will be

no debate. Vance won't do it. He has little to gain and everything to lose. They will declare the debates rigged and corrupt and blame the Democrats for it.

[BlueIdaho]

16. Republicans don't believe in debates anymore

They would much rather appear on a Christian TV network and weep about their love of Jesus.

[Demsrule86]

26. I worry that Vance's Hillbilly elegy shit will be tough to overcome...but I do believe Ryan has a

chance.

[LiberalFighter]

10. I'm wondering who will eek it out on the Republican side?

[SergeStorms]

17. Trump can't lose.

I think he ended up gracing both of them with a wave of his fat, liver-spotted hand, didn't he?

What a putz.

[irisblue]

18. Vance is leading at 9:15 pm/ WOSU news twitter

U.S. SENATE
2022 OHIO GOP PRIMARY
U.S. SENATE
2022 OHIO GOP PRIMARY
Updated May 3, 2022, 9:14 PM
AP estimates
48.0% of votes counted
J.D. Vance
R
134,851 votes 30.9%
Josh Mandel
R
108,115 votes 24.7%
Matt Dolan
R
94,189 votes 21.5%
Mike Gibbons
R
54,709 votes 12.5%
Jane Timken
R
30,951 votes 7.1

[LiberalFighter]

19. Maybe one of them will say the election was stolen?

[BadgerMom]

13. Excellent!

[former9thward]

14. Ryan has an uphill climb.

Rs are turning out almost 2 to 1 more than Ds in the primary.

[KS Toronado]

23. Ouch !

[BradAllison]

25. Do you realize how obvious you are?

I mean, right everyone else????

[irisblue]

27. No she is right, Vance has buckets of money, name recogniation and is a lying bastard

[BradAllison]

32. This poster never says anything positive about the Democratic party or it's future or upside

Check the history.

They post only to imply someone is somehow, someway wrong or negative spin.

Ryan was ahead by one in the last general poll.

I expect I'll be alerted on and banned, but I am correct. I'm tired of how subtle negativity is allowed here.

[irisblue]

34. I have heard both men speak, different topics, different times & venues.

Ryan is good, but Vance with that f-ing movie and aw shucks persona is very bad news.


Edit-https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/05/03/us/ohio-indiana-primary-election

snip-His chances of success in the general election in the fall are considered relatively low, given a national political environment that is unfriendly to his party and the increasingly conservative tilt of Ohio, which voted for Mr. Trump in the last two presidential elections.

But an upset victory by Mr. Ryan could carry lessons for national Democrats in the Midwest on how to counter the appeal of Trumpism and win back white working-class voters who used to form a large part of the Democratic base in the industrial heart of the country.

[BradAllison]

37. I don't disagree it won't be easy

But Ryan is the type of new candidate closest to the Joe Biden style of politics. Then let's do this if that's what they want.

[irisblue]

39. I hope you are right. The national party needs to pour money into Ohio.

The GOPers spent more then $67 million for the primary

[Demsrule86]

56. I agree and I know Tim is always short of money...he should be able to get some pac money

now and we can donate on DU...Tim is not a rich guy. He is a really good person. And a big union guy...the unions will support him so that should help. Hopefully, Sherrod will campaign with him too.

[Demsrule86]

47. If Tim Ryan can't win, no Democrat can...there is bad blood after this primary...so I hope that

some GOP types hate Vance.

[UnderThisLaw]

45. Hey, it could be worse

At least our resident Bill of Rights expert isn’t posting about Shontell Brown’s win like the second stringers are

[Demsrule86]

28. Well the primary was pretty much settled. Everyone knew that Tim Ryan would win while the

The GOP race is very close... let's hope the voters are pissed at the winner.

[spanone]

21. ...K&R...

[Demsrule86]

29. Thank you!

[mountain grammy]

36. Send this man to the senate Ohio.

We need him…You need him.

[nycbos]

40. Let's Go

It will be an uphill climb but it's not impossible. Fight like hell.

[Marius25]

42. Is Tim popular overall in the state?

How is a Vance/Ryan showdown looking?

I feel like Ohio is so red a Democrat is a big longshot.

[peppertree]

44. According to this, Repugs may have just shot themselves in the foot with J.D. Dunce

If you scroll down to Ohio Senate Forecast, and then click on either Ryan v. Vance or Ryan v. Mandel, you'll notice that where Mandel would've been projected to have a 4.1% avg. advantage, Vance would be behind Ryan by 0.4%.

https://www.racetothewh.com/ohio

Looks like Vance isn't the only Dunce in the Ohio GOP.

[Ms. Toad]

53. Just keep in mind all of the predictions about Trump -

Even some Democrats crossed party lines to vote for him in the 2016 primary because they were so sure he would be the easiest candidate to beat. And even after that, people still thought 2020 would be a slam dunk.

[peppertree]

57. All the more so, given Ohio Repugs' history of tampering with those touchscreen machines

Ken Blackbox's legacy lives on in the Buckeye State.

[Ms. Toad]

58. Don't even go there.

The conspiracy theories from the Blackwell era are the exact same ones we are ridiculing now that they are coming out of Trump supporter's mouths. Literally the exact same theories, pointing to the exact same "research," and citing the exact same "experts."

If they were true then, they are true now (since all that has changed is the party making the accusations).

[Demsrule86]

48. Tim is very popular. Vance is a celebrity with his stupid hillbilly elegy which I thought sucked

personally. It will be tough no doubt. But I still think if Democrats turn out we can beat him...Tim can win independent voters and even some Republicans...some of Josh Mandel's voters are truly pissed. So we shall see.

[Demsrule86]

50. There are alot of Democrats in Ohio Ok...we need to turn them out...we need to campaign

everywhere. Georgia showed that if we can reduce GOP margins in red/purple districts-rural and or small towns, we can win statewide races. Consider Paulding County in Georgia, we reduced republican margins there and in other red areas and Joe Biden won the state and we won the Senate. We have to reduce GOP margins. There are Democratic voters in those areas and we need to get them out and hold the cities. That is our path to victory.

[peppertree]

43. J.D. Dunce, on the other hand, is stuck at 32% of Repug voters

I hope this translates into an advantage for Ryan - and of course, that deWhine doesn't cheat.

[ColinC]

46. Could he beat Vance, though?

[Demsrule86]

49. If anyone can beat Vance, it is Tim Ryan.

[ColinC]

51. Been hard to find any head to head polls on it...

[Demsrule86]

54. Might be some at 538 but the primary was very close. The same is true on the GOP side in PA

Fetterman has a big lead over Lamb and has a good shot even if Oz wins I think.

[OhioChick]

59. Excellent! n/t

[Demsrule86]

60. Now we have to get him elected!

[OhioChick]

61. We'll be working our asses off here. n/t