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Tue Mar 30, 2021, 12:51 PM Mar 2021

It's John Boehner vs. Donald Trump in Ohio Republican primary

Former House Speaker John Boehner of West Chester Township is expected to appear virtually at a fundraiser Monday for an Ohio Republican who voted to impeach former President Trump, according to news reports. Boehner will be the featured guest at a Zoom fundraiser for Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, a Rocky River Republican who was one of only 10 Republicans who voted for Trump's impeachment in the wake of the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol.

Boehner's appearance puts him at odds with Trump, who has blasted Gonzalez and endorsed a Republican hoping to unseat Gonzalez, Max Miller.

After the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol, Boehner said Trump should consider resigning and called out Republicans who amplified false claims the election was stolen. “Here’s the president of the United States, in my view, inciting a riot ... and the Capitol being threatened,” Boehner said in January. “It’s time for Donald Trump to consider resigning his post. He has violated his oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/29/trump-impeachment-anthony-gonzalez-primary-involves-john-boehner/7043253002/

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It's John Boehner vs. Donald Trump in Ohio Republican primary (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Mar 2021 OP
Politics is certainly strange....... MyOwnPeace Mar 2021 #1

MyOwnPeace

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1. Politics is certainly strange.......
Tue Mar 30, 2021, 02:15 PM
Mar 2021

I can think back on all of the times I considered John Boehner an obstructionist in the same light as Moscow Mitch, even being nasty and calling him "Boner" - and yet here I sit today cheering him on against "He-who-shall-not-be-named."

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