Ohio Election Shock as Republican District Shifts 20 Points to Democrats

[TheProle]

https://www.newsweek.com/ohio-special-election-congress-results-1911576

A Republican district in Ohio has shifted 20 points to the Democrats in the state's latest special election.

Republican state Senator Michael Rulli defeated Democrat Michael Kripchak to win the election held in eastern Ohio's 6th District on Tuesday to fill a vacancy left by Bill Johnson, who resigned in January after 13 years in Congress to become president of Youngstown State University.

While Rulli was able to win by nearly 10 percentage points, with 54.7 percent of the vote to Kripchak's 45.3 percent, the results mark a notable decline in GOP support the Ohio district compared to previous elections. Johnson won his last four elections by more than 30 percentage points.

Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for November's presidential election, won the former battleground state by 8 points in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. Newsweek contacted the Ohio Republican Party by email outside of normal business hours to comment on this story.

[TSExile]

1. Let's hope so.

I have little hope for my state these days. Namely, Vance.

[Aristus]

2. My stepson lives in Dayton.

in 2016, he voted for Jill Stein because he "didn't trust Hillary Clinton".

In 2020, he gladly and proudly (but with regret for his Stein vote) voted for Joe Biden, and will be voting for Biden again this November.

He had been bombarded by right-wing bullshit from his father (a major jerk), but finally came around to his mother's (Mrs. Aristus) way of thinking.

I hope the rest of Ohio follows his lead out of the darkness...

[TSExile]

4. Ohioans can change!!

I did!! I was a registered R for over 20 years before the RAPIST came in and thoroughly revealed what is was and is to the world. I will NEVER go back!!!

[doc03]

3. That district was held by Democrats until the Tea Partly, it has been

gerrymandered so no Dem will ever win. It runs along the Ohio River Valley for over 250 miles.

[W_HAMILTON]

5. Yet again, Democrats overperforming at the polls that actually matter.