Ohio GOP Wants To Go Full MAGA And Nominate Jim Jordan To Fill Rob Portman’s Senate Seat

Ohio GOP Sen. Rob Portman announced he wouldn’t be seeking reelection in 2022, and Trump-loyal Republicans are already itching to go full MAGA and nominate one of many disgraced ex-president’s true believers, Rep. Jim Jordan.

According to The New York Times, Republicans within the Buckeye State imagine that working a candidate carefully aligned with Trump offers them one of the best probability to carry onto that Senate seat.

The Occasions studies, “The overwhelming consensus amongst Ohio Republicans is that a Trump-aligned candidate can be greatest positioned to win a aggressive Senate major, and no potential candidate has a greater declare to Mr. Trump’s voters within the state than Consultant Jim Jordan, who was Mr. Trump’s chief defender throughout his first impeachment trial and acquired the Presidential Medal of Freedom through the former president’s last days in workplace.”

Rep. Jordan, after all, is without doubt one of the dozens of seditionist Republicans in Congress who pushed Trump’s large lie in regards to the election being stolen, which in the end led to the MAGA assault on the U.S. Capitol earlier this month.

The Republican Get together remains to be completely contaminated with Trumpism

The embrace of Trump stooges like Jim Jordan, a man who’s firmly within the MAGA extremist wing of the social gathering, reveals simply how completely the GOP is contaminated with Trumpism.

As conservative commentator Charlie Sykes mentioned on Monday, the truth that extra institution Republicans like Rob Portman are leaving the political scene is a sign that the GOP will turn into extra excessive within the close to future, not much less.

“You already know what we could possibly be in a pair years? We could possibly be Sen. Lara Trump from North Carolina, Kelli Ward being the Republican nominee in Arizona, Jim Jordan being the Republican nominee in Ohio,” Sykes mentioned. “You get a way of the place this Republican Get together goes proper now?”

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Charlie Sykes says Donald Trump could also be out of the White Home, however the GOP remains to be completely contaminated with Trumpism. pic.twitter.com/gP61dSkvOZ

— PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) January 26, 2021

Donald Trump could also be out of the White Home, however the social gathering he left behind remains to be proudly carrying the insurrectionist MAGA torch ahead.

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Sean Colarossi at the moment resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts diploma in Journalism from the College of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for each of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He additionally labored with Deliberate Parenthood as an Inexpensive Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, serving to northeast Ohio residents get hold of medical health insurance protection.