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J. D. Vance voted for independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin in November 2016. He said this in 2021 in an interview with Time Magazine. McMullin was on the ballot in 2016 in Kentucky. In Ohio he was a declared write-in candidate and he was credited with 12,574 votes. It is not clear which state Vance lived in at the time. The mention of his 2016 vote is under “Vance’s Political Turn” in the first paragraph.

A young Ohio mother was brutally killed by three black thugs during a carjacking as she tried to protect her young child. In a tragic turn, she was run over by her own car, with her 6-year-old still inside. ... Alexa Stakely, 29, was slaughtered during a carjacking in Columbus, Ohio. Thugs stole her car and ran then her over with it while her 6-year-old son was still in it. She was a speech therapist for Canal Winchester Schools. Police hunting for three Black males caught on video. ... Columbus police are looking for two male suspects in connection with...

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance is leading a wave of calls for President Biden to leave the Oval Office immediately. The Ohio senator claimed that if the president isn’t fit to campaign, he shouldn’t be trusted to remain in the White House, in a message sent Sunday hours before Biden said he was suspending his election campaign. “Not running for reelection would be a clear admission that President Trump was right all along about Biden not being mentally fit enough to serve as Commander-in-Chief,” Vance wrote on X.

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) released a statement Friday urging President Biden to withdraw from the presidential race, joining a growing list of Democrats to make the call. Brown pointed to the the issues at the top of mind for his constituents in the Buckeye State, including job creation, giving law enforcement tools for the fentanyl crisis, protecting Social Security and Medicare and preventing efforts to restrict abortions. “There are the issues Ohioans care about and it is my job to keep fighting for them,” Brown said in a statement, shared on social media platform X. “At this critical time, our...

Search... Mayor of East Palestine Slams Biden at the RNC: Biden Administration Has Been a Train Wreck FuzzyChimp FuzzyChimp 9:15 PM on July 17, 2024 AP Photo/Matt Freed For a week in February 2023 the small town of East Palestine, Ohio drew the focus of the nation when a Norfolk Southern train derailed in the town, leaking hazardous chemicals and burning a toxic cloud for days. Any visible sign of action by Mayor Pete and Joe Biden also seemed to be derailed, resulting in widespread criticism of the administration's handling of the catastrophe. A year and a half later, the...

MILWAUKEE — The Trump campaign on Wednesday said it would not commit to a date for a vice presidential debate, suggesting it was still uncertain who would be on the Democratic ticket. “We don’t know who the Democrat nominee for Vice President is going to be, so we can’t lock in a date before their convention,” senior Trump campaign adviser Brian Hughes said in a statement. “To do so would be unfair to Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker, Gretchen Whitmer, or whoever Kamala Harris picks as her running mate.”——— snip———-…. the Trump campaign is seizing on the hand-wringing among Democrats about...

Extremist figures and members of the Make America Great Again movement have criticized the wife of Ohio Senator JD Vance after former President Donald Trump named him as his running mate in the 2024 election. .... In the wake of Trump's vice presidential announcement on Monday, numerous conservative and far-right figures have taken to social media to launch racist attacks against Usha Vance because of her Indian heritage and the assumption that her influence on her husband's political career means the Republican Party will be softer on immigration. "I'm sure this guy is going to be great on immigration," Jaden...

Former president Donald Trump’s ambition of remaking the Republican Party in his image just took a major leap forward with the selection of Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, a Catholic convert, as his vice-presidential nominee. ...News of Trump’s choice prompted a range of reactions from Catholic observers. In response to the pick, Elbridge Colby, the Catholic former deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and force development, posted his jubilation on X: “An absolutely superb, visionary choice by President Trump of @JDVance1. America could not be more fortunate. We are finally primed for putting Americans first again — for real! It...

Tucker Carlson praised former President Donald Trump’s Monday selection of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his running mate, emphasizing that Americans should be heartened by the fact that D.C. swamp creatures are so strongly opposed to the Ohio senator. “I think every person who pays close attention has gotta be thrilled by that. And if you don’t know much about J.D. Vance, I’m not even gonna make a case for J.D. Vance,” the former Fox News anchor said during the Heritage Foundation’s Policy Fest live from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “I’m gonna tell you what I just...

Springing, a city in southwestern Ohio, is facing an unprecedented number of newly arrived illegal aliens, most from Haiti, who have strained local resources, Fox News reported on Saturday. Springfield Mayor Rob Rue blamed the Biden administration’s lax immigration policies in an interview on Fox News’s Fox and Friends First. “This border crisis, the policy of this administration, is failing cities like ours and taxing us beyond our limit,” Rue said. “This has overwhelmed safety services and caused great concern for our community.” City Manager Bryan Heck echoed Rue’s concerns, highlighting that Springfield’s infrastructure and services cannot support the new...

BREAKING: JD Vance spotted leaving Ohio home in a motorcade.

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said Sunday Sen. JD Vance’s (R-Ohio) response to the attempted assassination of former President Trump should “disqualify” him from serving as vice president. Vance, a contender for Trump’s choice of running mate, said in a social media post on Saturday that the shooting was “not some isolated incident” and suggested President Biden’s campaign was, at least in part, at fault. “The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs,” Vance said on the social platform X. “That rhetoric led directly to...

Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno appeared outside Sen. Sherrod Brown’s (D-OH) office Thursday morning, declaring he covered up President Joe Biden’s “mental decline,” but the “gig is up,” per reports.In a post on X Thursday, Punch Bowl News Senior Congressional Correspondent Andrew Desiderio shared an image of Moreno outside of Brown’s office talking to what appears to be a handful of reporters.“Ohio GOP Senate candidate Bernie Moreno is outside Sen. Sherrod Brown’s (D-Ohio) office slamming Brown for ‘covering up’ Biden’s ‘mental decline,’’ Desiderio wrote:Samantha Jo-Roth of the Washington Examiner reported that Moreno noted Brown and Biden have been longtime...

Buckeye Firearms Association PAC has announced its endorsement of Bernie Moreno for U.S. Senate."We're thrilled to throw our support behind Bernie Moreno and help throw out anti-gun, F-rated Sherrod Brown," said Linda Walker, Board President of Buckeye Firearms Association.BFA-PAC leaders sat down with Moreno in May at his campaign headquarters in Columbus to discuss his campaign and stance on the Second Amendment. Our team asked a range of detailed questions on specific issues confronting gun owners and sportsmen in Ohio and across the nation.Along with his 100% gun rights candidate survey score, Moreno and his team expressed enthusiastic support for...

Senator J.D Vance (R-OH) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he supported Americans having access to abortion pill Mifepristone Host Kristen Welker said, “Let me move on to my next question. I want to talk about the Heritage Foundation. It’s a conservative think tank in Washington. It shapes the agenda they would like to see in a Trump second term.”

Health officials issued an urgent warning after a train carrying toxic materials derailed and exploded into a fireball in North Dakota. Hazmat crews have been deployed to a remote area around 140 miles north of Fargo, after 29 cars of a CPKC train derailed at around 3:45 am on Friday. The hazardous materials in the train included anhydrous ammonia, sulfur and methanol, which officials warned are being expelled from the wreckage in toxic smoke. Ammonia is the biggest risk, and if exposed to the compound, it can cause burning to the eyes, nose and throat, as well as blindness, lung...

Schumer-linked PAC latest instance of Democrats relying on dark money while claiming to oppose it.. A new dark money group that has been blanketing swing state airwaves with ads supporting vulnerable Democratic senators has taken steps to conceal its ties to Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer’s (D., N.Y.) super PAC, according to a Washington Free Beacon review of tax records. The 501(c)4 nonprofit group, Duty and Honor, has invested heavily in swing states this election cycle on ads casting vulnerable Democratic senators as bipartisan champions of border security. The group invested $2.4 million in Ohio in May on an ad...

FIRST ON FOX: Ohio GOP Senate candidate Bernie Moreno released an ad on the morning of Thursday’s CNN Presidential Debate linking his vulnerable Democrat opponent’s policies to those of President Biden that will be featured on stage in Atlanta. “Sherrod Brown voted with Biden 99% of the time,” the Moreno ad says as two men ride a tandem bicycle with the license plate JB SB, the initials of Ohio Democratic Gov. Sherrod Brown and President Biden, in Washington, D.C. “Sherrod Brown & Biden combined 100 years in office,” the new ad says. “Sherrod Brown & Biden oppose a border wall.”...

Ten people were shot, with one person critically wounded, early Sunday in Columbus, Ohio, police said. The shooting happened in the Short North Arts District near downtown around 2:30 a.m., with victims from 16 to 27 years old, according to the Columbus Police Department. All of the victims in Sunday’s shooting appeared to be men, according to NBC affiliate WCMH of Columbus. Nine of the victims were listed as stable Sunday morning, Columbus police said. Columbus Police Sgt. Joe Albert said a male suspect was found shortly after the shooting but officers lost him during a highway pursuit, according to...

The Libertarian Party of Florida’s Executive Committee approved a motion over the weekend calling for the Libertarian National Committee to investigate allegations concerning the validity of votes cast for the presidential ticket during the party’s recent national convention. The resolution, first shared via X on Sunday, urges the LNC to investigate claims that the presidential and vice-presidential nominations at the party’s recent national convention may have been compromised by ineligible votes. While the party states that it remains committed to supporting its 2024 presidential ticket and will place it on the ballot, the resolution highlights concerns about potential legal and...