'Democrats are playing catch-up as Rep. Tim Ryan makes it a close race for the open U.S. Senate seat from Ohio—with little help from his party,' writes EleanorClift
Hillbilly Elegysince Labor Day, versus $4.5 million from Dems for Ryan. But Ryan has turned a race that Vance should easily win into a cage match.
Noting that Ohio, once “the quintessential swing state,” is now deeply red, Galston says the combination of Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, who was reelected in 2018, and Tim Ryan in the U.S. Senate “would send a powerful message to the senate and the country” about the politics and priorities of the Democratic Party.
“He hasn’t been a world leader as a member of Congress,“ says Galston, “but his most important qualification in this race is his gut level understanding of how people that Democrats have gotten out of the habit of talking to actually think and feel. Clearly his roots haven’t changed, and he knows how to present himself as a beer and shots kind of guy.”
John Halpin is a senior fellow and the co-director of politics and elections for the Advocacy team at American Progress, a liberal think tank. He says Ryan’s campaign is a blueprint for “liberal nationalism,” which is pro-worker, pro-family, pro-America. “He wants to codifyand stand up for gay rights, but he doesn’t talk about things that motivate the activist base of the party.”
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