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Ohio GOP Senate major: Timken targets male rivals who ‘overcompensate’ in making an attempt to showcase Trump help
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EXCLUSIVE: In Ohio’s crowded and flamable Republican Senate major, the place all however one of many main contenders is spotlighting their help for Donald Trump in hopes of incomes the previous president’s endorsement, Jane Timken is taking purpose at her male rivals.
Timken, who final yr stepped down as Ohio GOP chair to launch her Senate marketing campaign, is showcasing her Trump credentials and playfully jabbing at three different contenders additionally in search of the previous president’s help in a brand new business which begins operating on Friday that was shared first with Fox Information.
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“Everyone knows guys who overcompensate for his or her inadequacies, and that description matches the blokes within the Senate race to a T,” Timken says to digital camera within the spot.
Subsequent to her are pictures of three of her prime rivals – Mike Gibbons, a Cleveland entrepreneur, actual property developer and funding banker who’s making his second bid for the Senate GOP nomination, former Ohio treasurer and former two-time Senate candidate Josh Mandel, and J.D. Vance, a hedge fund government and the creator of the best-selling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy.”
All 4 candidates have been making a full court docket press to earn the endorsement of Trump, who stays highly regarded and influential with Republican voters in Ohio and throughout the nation as he continues to play a kingmaker’s function in GOP primaries and repeatedly teases one other White Home run in 2024.
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“Effectively, I’m completely different. I’m the MAGA conservative with a spine,” Timken spotlights, as she stands subsequent to a photograph of her with Trump.
And pointing to her tenure as Ohio GOP chair, she touts “I turned Ohio into Trump nation. And as your subsequent senator, I’ll combat for stronger borders, American jobs, and fogeys’ rights.”
Ohio Senate candidate and former state GOP chair Jane Timken indicators a “Cease Essential Race Principle” pledge, at her marketing campaign workplace in Columbus, Ohio, on July 12, 2021.
(Jane Timken Senate marketing campaign)
The one candidate among the many main GOP contenders within the race to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Rob Portman to not make a full-court press to land Trump’s endorsement is state Sen. Matt Dolan, a former prosecutor whose household owns Main League Baseball’s Cleveland Guardians, previously generally known as the Indians.
Timken’s marketing campaign tells Fox Information their new spot will run statewide in Ohio as a part of their present six-figure advert purchase. The discharge of Timken’s business comes a few days after new advert from Gibbons questioned Vance and Timken’s Trump credentials.
With GOP major area chock-full of rich contenders who’re additionally backed by well-financed tremendous PACs, almost $20 million has been spent up to now to run adverts, in accordance with figures from the nationwide advert monitoring agency AdImpact. And almost all of the advert spending, with two and a half months nonetheless to go till Ohio’s Might 3 major, has been on the Republican facet.
