The overall picture for November, and the looming primaries in May.The small stuff versus the big stuffThere is a push and pull in the race for control of the U.S. Senate between the big picture electoral environment, which clearly benefits Republicans, and the day-to-day developments on the campaign trail, which do not always clearly benefit Republicans.
Businessman Mike Gibbons is rising in early polls of Ohio’s crowded Republican Senate primary, and he is seeking to introduce himself to voters as the pro-Trump candidate in the race, according to a new advertisement campaign he will launch Tuesday.
Ryan launched a longshot bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, betting that his blue-collar background and deep ties to the industrial Youngstown region would appeal to ancestral Democratic voters who had helped send Trump to the White House in 2016.
But his campaign failed to pick up momentum, and he dropped out of the nominating contest months before the Iowa caucuses.
Despite his unsuccessful presidential campaign, Ryan has been floated as a top contender for the Senate in Ohio. Portman’s announcement earlier this year that he would not seek reelection in 2022 turbocharged speculation that Ryan could make a run for the seat.
“It’s been surprising,” Portman said. “That’s what President Biden campaigned on. He won the primary, not just the general election, saying he wanted to do more across-the-aisle outreach.”
The Biden administration has unveiled a roughly $2.3 trillion infrastructure package that includes roads and bridges but also goes further by touching on manufacturing, revamping the nation’s water system and broadband.
Getting bipartisan support for such a mammoth package will be tough, especially if Democrats stick with Biden’s plan to help cover the costs of the bill by raising the corporate tax rate from 21 percent, a level set by the 2017 tax bill, to 28 percent.
Mike Gibbons, an investment banker who helped lead former President Trump's fundraising efforts in Ohio in 2016, jumped into the state's Senate race on Tuesday, joining an increasingly crowded field of Republicans vying to replace retiring Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio)."I've achieved my American Dream. I'm running for Senate to help more people achieve their American Dreams," Gibbons said in a statement."I'm a businessman, not a politician. I'm.