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ICYMI: Republicans Praise Brian Poindexter While Max Miller Claims Economy Is “Actually Doing Very Well”

COLUMBUS, OH – Max Miller has had another very bad week, claiming that the economy is “actually doing very well right now,” in a local interview at a time when more and more Republicans are voicing their support for Brian Poindexter.

As Ohio Republicans raise Ohioans’ costs and rip away families’ healthcare, registered Republican voters are slamming Miller, with one saying that she’s planning to “vote entirely Democratic this year,” and another emphasizing his support for Brian as someone who “will always hear him out.” Brian Poindexter’s growing support from Republican voters in Ohio’s 7th congressional district comes as Ohio “has become one of the GOP’s biggest headaches for the midterms,” with all three major nonpartisan race raters — Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, and Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball — shifting the OH07 congressional race to “Toss-Up.” 

Read more about Max Miller’s bad week of showing how little he cares about the reality that Ohioans are facing as Ohioans of all political backgrounds are rallying behind Brian Poindexter:

Ohio Capital Journal: In an Ohio congressional race with national scrutiny, Brian Poindexter wants to win on his own terms

  • Poindexter has limited name recognition in his district, but his unusual biography could help, said Cyril Kleem, the Republican mayor of Berea. Brook Park shares a school district with Berea, and Kleem endorsed Poindexter in early August.
  • “A lot of working class people have felt left out,” Kleem said. ‘Some of those people have gravitated toward the Republican Party, particularly toward Donald Trump, because I think to a certain extent, the Democratic Party has been accused of forgetting about them. I think he represents them.”
  • Victoria Kovach, a registered Republican from Strongsville who works as a server and social worker, said she plans to vote entirely Democratic this year. She usually votes Republican in local elections, she said, but the last time she voted in a federal race was for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
  • Even though they don’t always see eye to eye on policy, Kleem said Poindexter will always hear him out. Poindexter emphasizes a commitment to strong constituent services when speaking to voters, promising to hold quarterly town halls and establish congressional offices throughout the district if elected.
  • When asked what legislation he would support on his first day in office, he immediately said the Protecting the Right to Organize Act. Reintroduced in 2025, it would give more power to unions and weaken right-to-work laws. He has also said he would support Moreno’s push to lift the cap on the amount of annual income subject to the payroll tax that funds Social Security.
  • “I don’t have to be pro-labor, folks. I am labor,” Poindexter said in a speech at the North Shore AFL-CIO headquarters in July. “My friends, my family — I would not be able to look them in the eye if I went to Washington and forgot where I came from.”

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ICYMI: Ohio Conservative Commentator Blasts Jon Husted’s Failing Senate Campaign

COLUMBUS, OHIO — In case you missed it, Ohio conservative commentator Jack Windsor blasted Jon Husted’s failing Senate campaign, saying things “don’t look good” for the Husted team. 

WATCH HERE:

Transcript: 

Jack Windsor, conservative radio host: We’re getting a lot of mixed signals, and some of them, frankly, I hate to say it on air, but they don’t look good for Jon Husted at this point. I believe it’s going to come down to turnout. I still worry about some Republicans voting one way at the top of the ticket and another way, just you know, or maybe that would be reversed. I can’t remember if governors first or U.S. Senate is first, but regardless, I could see somebody voting for Vivek and then maybe somebody voting for Sherrod, say in the Mahoning Valley. But what’s your read on that matchup right now?

Chris Long, President of the Ohio Christian Alliance: Well, Jon has had kind of a stumble here as of late. The polls have gone against him. I don’t know really why that is. […] You go back eight weeks ago, Jon was actually leading in the race by one or two points.

Ohio Democratic Party Senior Communications Advisor Tony Wen released the following statement:

“Jon Husted’s failing campaign is such a disaster that even conservative commentators are calling him out. Ohioans are learning the truth about how Husted led the charge to bring hundreds of data centers to Ohio, is at the center of the largest bribery scandal in state history, and voted to keep the Epstein files secret. No amount of spin can fix that.” 

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MUST READ: The Columbus Dispatch Catches Vivek Ramaswamy In Another Lie in Scam Ad

Columbus, Ohio- New reporting from The Columbus Dispatch caught Vivek Ramaswamy in yet another lie on his desperate quest to scam as many Ohioans as possible. Ramaswamy’s ad features Linda Caudill, longtime GOP operative, who blames Dr. Acton for her mother’s death, but records show the woman lived and died in Kentucky and passed away six weeks after Dr. Acton stepped down as Ohio Health Director.

“Lying Vivek Ramaswamy is again resorting to baseless and easily disproven lies because he’s desperate to salvage any thread of his failing campaign,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer. “While liar Ramaswamy grapples with the fallout from getting caught red-handed in another lie, Ohioans will be hearing the truth about his alleged ‘pump-and-dump’ scam that made him rich.”

READ: Ad blames Acton for isolating dying mom during COVID. There’s more to it

  • A new ad from Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign features a GOP activist who blames Amy Acton for isolating her late mother during the COVID-19 pandemic, but records show the woman lived in Kentucky and died weeks after Ohio ended its stay-at-home order.
  • In Ramaswamy’s ad, Linda Caudill, a member of the Ohio Republican Party State Central Committee, said her mother went into a nursing home shortly before Acton “shut down the state” and died two months later.
  • The ad doesn’t identify the nursing home or specify where Caudill’s mother spent her final months. But her obituary… indicates she was from Erlanger, Kentucky; belonged to a church in Elsmere, Kentucky; and died July 25, 2020, at a hospice facility in Edgewood, Kentucky, six weeks after Acton stepped down as health director.
  • Additional public records list northern Kentucky addresses for Caudill’s mother that date back decades.
  • The woman’s death also came two months after DeWine lifted Ohio’s stay-at-home order and travel restrictions, though officials encouraged high-risk people to stay home when possible. The order, when it was in effect, included exceptions for Ohioans who needed to care for elderly loved ones.
  • Caudill is no stranger to Republican politics in Ohio. She served as a delegate for Trump in 2016 and 2024. She also sparked controversy as a volunteer for former U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci’s 2017 campaign for governor, in part for sharing a meme that suggested violence against then-Secretary of State Jon Husted.

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ICYMI: Ohioans Rally Against Jon Husted For Threatening Seniors’ Benefits and Protecting Abusive Nursing Homes

REPORT: Husted’s budget plan would force deep cuts to Social Security and Medicare

STEUBENVILLE, OHIO — In case you missed it, Ohioans in Steubenville called out Jon Husted for his record of cutting seniors’ health care, pushing massive cuts to Social Security and Medicare, and protecting the abusive nursing home industry.

Jon Husted championed legislation that would force massive cuts to Social Security and Medicare, and cast the tie-breaking vote for the largest cut to Medicaid in history. Husted has also protected the abusive nursing home industry after taking more than a million dollars from industry executives and lobbyists. 

See For Yourself:

WTRF: Ohio Valley residents voice concerns over Sen. Jon Husted’s proposed constitutional amendment

  • Alex Taylor, WTRF: A group of Ohio Valley residents gathered outside the Jefferson County Courthouse Wednesday afternoon voicing concerns over U.S. Senator Jon Husted and the future of programs many seniors rely on.
  • Taylor, WTRF: Many of those attending were senior citizens, with demonstrators pointing to Husted’s proposed constitutional amendment requiring the federal government to balance its budget within ten years. Critics argue a balanced-budget requirement could eventually put programs like Medicare and Social Security at risk…
  • Mel Woods, United Mine Workers of Ohio: [Jon Husted is] against Medicare, Medicaid. He doesn’t give a darn about the senior citizens and believe me I do. I’m one of them.

WTOV: Ohio union rally targets Husted over benefits for retired mill, mine workers

  • Dylan Cleland, WTOV: The rally focused on benefits that protect seniors like Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. A number of elected officials, union leaders and speakers were in attendance.
  • John Saunders, United Steelworkers: This town, this valley has a lot of older people who worked in the mills, worked in aluminum, worked in coal mines. They’re there, they’re depending on those benefits. Jon Husted continues to side with the other side. We’re here fighting for that person that can’t fight for their self, but we’re here, fighting on their behalf to preserve those benefits.

Steubenville Times Leader: Steubenville rally targets Husted over senior benefits

  • Voting to keep Republican Jon Husted in the U.S. Senate would be bad for many Ohioans in general and senior citizens in particular, Ohio Valley Democrats said during a rally held Wednesday in front of the Jefferson County Courthouse.
  • Organized by the state Democratic Party, participants questioned Husted’s support of legislation they said would lead to cuts in Social Security and Medicare and create the largest reduction to Medicaid in the program’s history.
  • “I don’t want to see seniors suffer by losing Medicaid if they want to balance the budget on the backs of seniors who already have paid into the system — our Social Security, our Medicare and, most of all, our Medicaid. You have to jump through hoops to get it, and I am too old to jump through hoops,” Eileen Krupinski said after the rally, which promoted the candidacy of Democrat Sherrod Brown.
  • That legislation has not been passed, but some organizations, including AARP, have said that a balanced budget amendment would likely lead to billions of dollars in cuts to Social Security and Medicare.
  • Standing up for older Americans is critical, John Saunders said, adding that must happen now.
  • “I’m here today representing the seniors, the people who worked in the mills and the mines and who are under attack,” said Saunders, who is a staff representative for the United Steelworkers. “As we look around the United States today, seniors can’t afford gasoline and utilities — anything that takes away from their right to be able to maintain a standard of living. They don’t need cuts — they need help. They need help immediately.
  • “If we continue to make these kinds of cuts, we’re not going to have hospitals, we’re not going to have nursing homes and we’re not going to have any of those services that are for people there. This town, this valley has a lot of people who worked in the mills, worked in aluminum and worked in coal mines. They are depending on those benefits. Husted continues to go with the other side.”
  • The state’s Democratic Party questioned Husted’s support in 2002 of House Bill 412. According to an Aug. 17 story in the (Tiffin) Advertiser-Tribune, Husted at that time was one of 45 members of the House who co-sponsored the bill, which made it harder to sue those facilities, the story said. Since then, Husted has accepted more than $1 million in campaign contributions from the nursing home industry, executives and lobbyists, according to an Aug. 13 report by WCMH-TV in Columbus.
  • The WCMH story said that according to recent campaign finance reporting, more than a dozen nursing home PACs or lobbyists have given at least $34,000 so far to Husted’s Senate campaign. Brown’s campaign, the report said, has received $220,500 in contributions from 33 labor union PACs.

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Ohioans Rally Against Jon Husted For Threatening Seniors’ Benefits and Protecting Abusive Nursing Homes

REPORT: Husted’s budget plan would force deep cuts to Social Security and Medicare

STEUBENVILLE, OHIO — This week, Ohioans in Steubenville called out Jon Husted for his record of cutting seniors’ health care, pushing massive cuts to Social Security and Medicare, and protecting the abusive nursing home industry.

Jon Husted championed legislation that would force massive cuts to Social Security and Medicare, and cast the tie-breaking vote for the largest cut to Medicaid in history. Husted has also protected the abusive nursing home industry after taking more than a million dollars from industry executives and lobbyists. 

“Thanks to the votes Jon Husted has made, nursing homes that rely on Medicaid money will have to shut down their business. And then what happens to their employees? I don’t want to see our seniors suffer by losing Medicaid,” said former state Representative Eileen Krupinski. “They’re not going to stop with eliminating Medicaid. They’re going to turn their attention to Social Security and Medicare, and I’m sorry to say that Jon Husted already has.”

“As we look around the United States today, seniors can’t afford gas, the utilities, or anything that takes away from their right to be able to maintain a standard of living. They don’t need cuts. They need help. They need help immediately,” said John Saunders, Ohio senior and United Steelworkers District 1 staff representative. “This town, this valley, has a lot of older people who worked in the mills, worked in aluminum, and worked in the coal mines. They’re depending on those benefits. Jon Husted continues to side with the other side. We’re here fighting on their behalf to preserve those benefits.”

“Jon Husted — he’s just after some obligations to gain more financially for himself. He’s against Medicare and Medicaid and wants to cut those programs. He doesn’t give a damn about senior citizens, and believe me, I do. I’m one of them, and it’s upsetting,” said Mel Woods, Ohio senior and financial secretary of United Mineworkers of America, District 31. 

Jon Husted can’t be trusted to fight for Ohio seniors:

  • Jon Husted protected nursing homes facing lawsuits for wrongful death and elder abuse, pushing through an industry-backed bill when he served in the state legislature. 
  • Husted has taken more than $1 million from nursing home executives and lobbyists throughout his career, including more than $34,000 for his Senate campaign. 
  • Husted’s campaign took more than $60,000 from the Ohio Health Care Association PAC, executives, and lobbyists, while the organization lobbied on behalf of at least five nursing home facilities that left elderly patients at homeless shelters.
  • Husted championed legislation that would force massive cuts to Social Security and Medicare, which millions of Ohio seniors rely on. 

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