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Let’s Talk About Tim Ryan, and that Ohio Senate Debate.

There was one moment that stood out in particular.

Lauren Elizabeth
4 min readOct 14, 2022
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Every once in a while, a Democratic lawmaker will somehow manage to surprise us with a show of strength and political savvy. Granted, it doesn’t happen often, but it certainly grabs the attention when it does. Of course, I’ll be the first to admit I didn’t really expect one of those moments to come from Ohio congressman and senate candidate Tim Ryan.

Admittedly, he had a few good moments against his Trump endorsed GOP opponent, J.D. Vance.

One clip on social media certainly made the rounds, where Ryan said:

“…Just a few weeks ago in Youngstown, on the stage, Donald Trump said to J.D. Vance ‘all you do is kiss my a** to get my support.’ He said that, and that’s bad because that means J.D. Vance is gonna do whatever he wants. Mitch McConnell’s given him $40 million he’s gonna do what we wants, Peter Thiel gave him $15 million he’s gonna do what he wants, and here’s the thing that’s most troubling about this lack of courage. After Trump took J.D. Vance’s dignity from him on the stage in Youngstown, J.D. Vance got back up on stage started shaking hands taking pictures with him saying ‘hey, aren’t we having a great time here tonight?’ I don’t know anybody I grew up with, I don’t know anybody I…

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Lauren Elizabeth
Lauren Elizabeth

Written by Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx

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