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National Political Reporter for @SpectrumNewsDC, focusing on 2024 | taylor.popielarz@charter.com | @ABC57News, @QuinnipiacU, @SJRHighSchool alum

Nov 6, 2022, 9 tweets

📍Gahanna, Ohio

After attending a church service with #OH03 Rep. @JoyceBeatty, #OHSen candidate @TimRyan is heading north to a campaign event in Medina.

He has IBEW bikers escorting his bus.

As the #OHSen race comes to a close, I asked @TimRyan what block of voters has been the toughest to get through to.

“People who didn’t vote Democratic for the last few cycles in Ohio. But I think we’ve penetrated that in a very, very big way by making this race about Ohio.”

If @TimRyan wins the #OHSen race on Tuesday, national Democrats will likely talk him up as a potential 2024 presidential candidate.

His message to Ohioans?

“I’ll be serving a full six-year Senate term.”

“And if you bring this up in front of my wife, I’ll kill you,” he joked.

📍 Medina, Ohio

#OHSen candidate @TimRyan, and his wife Andrea, arrive in downtown Medina for a campaign event.

100+ people are gathered here on a lovely fall afternoon.

Ryan is giving his usual stump speech, talking family, jobs, and criticizing @JDVance1 as out of touch.

“I went into a @FoxNews town hall. You know why? Because that’s how you win elections,” #OHSen candidate @TimRyan tells the crowd here in Medina — one of his biggest applause lines.

“Democracy is not like gravity. Democracy is not like the sun coming up. It’s a choice.”

In Medina, I asked #OHSen candidate @TimRyan about the prospect of Ohio having two Dem senators.

Since 2007, the state has had one from each party.

Ryan said, between him and @JDVance1, “I’m clearly the one who wants to bring everybody to the middle to try to get stuff done.”

📍 Cleveland, Ohio

#OHSen candidate @TimRyan just arrived to Ironworkers Local 17 for a rally.

Sen. @SherrodBrown, Rep. @ShontelMBrown, and @AFLCIO President @LizShuler are among the special guests here tonight.

“I am most excited to stand shoulder to shoulder” with @SherrodBrown, #OHSen candidate @TimRyan says as he takes the stage in Cleveland following an introduction from Brown.

Lots of talk about labor.

After his rally in Cleveland, I asked #OHSen candidate @TimRyan how confident he is that he’s done enough outreach to Black voters across Ohio.

“I feel very, very good…We’ve put a lot of time and effort, communications into it…I think it’s going to pay off.”

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