I don't know much about Schmidt but she looks like a really bad candidate. I keep hearing she was implicated in an ethics scandal. Plus she looks kind of ugly in the photos i've seen of her. Major mistake by Ohio Republicans. Everyone knows that running a woman against a military vet is troublesome. Why not just run some guy?
they did run a bunch of guys and they lost in the primary
They had a primary election and she won.
Because there was an 11 candidate primary with 4 serious contenders....Schmidtt, Brinkman, McEwen, and DeWine and she won as she got her voters out.