Trump has not yet endorsed any of the candidates currently racing to fill the seat of Sen. Rob Portman, who will be retiring and has decided not to seek another term. Portman stepping down has generated a shootout of sorts in the race with seven GOP candidates, three Democrats, and five independent or third-party candidates running to fill the seat, according to Ballotpedia.
According to CNN, all leading candidates in the race are polling under 30%, and a massive group of primary voters remains undecided. According to the report, a Trump endorsement could push one of the Republican candidates over the primary finish line. “There are people up on the stage who are literally fighting for one vote, and that person doesn’t even vote in Ohio,” state Sen. Matt Dolan, who is running for the nomination said at a recent debate, according to the news outlet. Dolan is the sole GOP candidate not to support Trump’s claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election.
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“Let me be very clear, Joe Biden is the legitimate President of the United States,” Dolan said at the debate in Wilberforce. “My problem is he’s a failed President.” Another GOP candidate, J.D. Vance, recently stood up for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who has been tagged as “far-Right” by the Left, media, and some Republicans, after she gave a speech at a “White nationalist gathering,” according to CNN. “She said nothing wrong, and I’m absolutely not going to throw her under the bus, or anybody else who’s a friend of mine,” Vance told CNN.
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Mike Gibbons, who is financing his race, has likened himself to Trump as a businessman and political outsider and was recently called out by another candidate in the race, former state treasurer Josh Mandel for his stock holdings in a Chinese company. Meanwhile, Portman has endorsed Ohio GOP chair Jane Timken, who claims Trump personally picked her to lead the party and has hired two top Trump aides, Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, for her campaign, CNN reported.
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On the Democratic side, former Rep. Tim Ryan is the expected winner of that primary for the nomination. The CNN story noted that Ryan challenged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. For the gavel in 2016 and briefly ran for President in 2020.
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