Does anyone familiar with Ohio know how “red” that district is?
Pretty solid red. Stivers won with about 60% vote last year. Mostly rural and some suburbs. Only disease area is Athens home of Ohio U. He will be re-placed with a republican, only question is who.
2020 Joel Newby: 140,183 (D) Steve Stivers: 243,103 (R)
According to Wikipedia, the 15th congressional district from January 3, 1967 to present (today is April 19, 2021) has been represented by a Republican for all those years except for 2 years (January 3, 2009 to January 3, 2011). Note that Obama’s Blue Wave of 2008 carried that district to the Democrats but not Biden’s Blue Wave of 2020.
“Does anyone familiar with Ohio know how “red” that district is?”
It’s the Western portion of Franklin County (the shithole of Columbus) and extends to the academic wasteland of Athens County (Univ. of Ohio) with a lot of good Republican territory in between. Even the Franklin area is winnable because the really bad areas are in a different district.
This district *should* be solidly Republican, and we can do better than the squish who is vacating the seat if conservatives unite behind one good candidate in the primary. A Democrat has won this district exactly once since the early 1960s. As long as Ohio has a handle on vote fraud in the Columbus area, this year should not be the second time a Democrat wins.
Yes, it is/WAS an extremely red district. Steve Stivers is a solid conservative, I had some interaction with him, he and his staff were fantastic. I wish him the best.
It is very red. This is a great development.
Stivers is an absolute disaster. Just a few months ago, he publicly advocated tying future stimulus payments to getting the Covid vaccine. If he was running again, I was planning on donating, volunteering, etc... for anyone who would try to primary him.