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Former Republican presidential candidate Ohio Gov.John Kasich, left, endorses Chris Sununu, right, for New Hampshire's governor during a news conference Monday, Aug. 29, 2016, in Concord, N.H. . Former Republican presidential candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich, right, endorses Chris Sununu, left, for New Hampshire's governor during a news conference Monday, Aug. 29, 2016, in Concord, N.H. The former presidential candidate and chief Donald Trump critic is the first of 2016's failed GOP hopefuls to return to the state since the February primary.
The independent expenditure arm of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is delaying a planned ad buy on behalf of Ohio Senate candidate Ted Strickland, according to a report, fueling concerns among Democrats that the former governor's race against Republican Sen. Rob Portman is in danger of slipping away. The news was first reported by The Washington Post , which said the committee had canceled a weeklong, $500,000 buy scheduled to start in the middle of September.
Citing his college-age son, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman became the first Republican senator to back marriage equality. When Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio announced his decision to support marriage equality in March of 2013, he explained that his change of heart on the issue came after learning that his college-age son, Will, is gay.
Hillary Clinton is working hard to prove Donald Trump isn't a normal Republican - and down-ticket GOP candidates are just fine with that. Clinton went full blast against Trump's racism last week, the latest in a series of high-profile speeches aimed at disqualifying the GOP nominee by showing that he's much worse than the run-of-the-mill Republican.
The hero of this sizzling summer for Republicans is an unlikely one: Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, in many ways Trump's polar opposite. Yet the mild-mannered favorite of the Republican establishment has emerged as one of the few GOP Senators in a tough race who's A Monmouth University Poll released on Monday showed Portman with an 8-point lead over his opponent, former Ohio Governor Ted Strickland.
A key question looms for vulnerable Republican senators this election: If Donald Trump loses and loses big, can they still survive? With 11 weeks until Election Day, Trump's declining standing in the polls has GOP Senate candidates preparing for the worst, and they're maneuvering now to put as big a margin as they can between themselves and the top of the ticket. Some strategists foresee a historic Trump loss and the need to outrun the presidential nominee by at least five to 10 percentage points in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Hampshire and Florida, if Senate incumbents are to prevail in November.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally in Akron, Ohio, Monday, Aug. 22, 2016. Trump portrays himself as an indispensable cash resource for fellow Republicans up and down the ballot.
Ohio's Republican senator is hitting the road in an RV for a 50-stop tour of the state over the next two weeks. Rob Portman and his wife Jane will launch the tour from near their suburban Cincinnati home Saturday morning, with stops on the first day planned in Dayton, Columbus and Toledo.
EMILY's List President Stephanie Schriock speaks during the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia , Wednesday, July 27, 2016. EMILY's List singles out an Ohio Democrat for high praise.
U.S. Sen. Rob Portman has opened a 9-point lead over Democratic challenger Ted Strickland in a newly released poll, despite headwinds from the top of the ticket that appear to be hampering his Republican Senate colleagues in Pennsylvania and Florida. "At this stage of the campaign, Republican U.S. Senate candidates may be running against their own presidential nominee, Donald Trump, as much as they are against their Democratic opponents," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Connecticut-based Quinnipiac University Poll.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Ted Strickland of Ohio is apologizing for remarks appearing to celebrate the death of late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. In audio of an appearance Monday before the AFL-CIO in Cleveland, the former Ohio governor is heard saying he didn't "wish anyone ill" but Scalia's death "happened at a good time" for union workers.
In this June 21, 2016, file photo, former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Ohio, speaks at a rally for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at the Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center in Columbus, Ohio. Former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland apologizes for "insensitive remarks."
Republican Sens. Marco Rubio, of Florida, and Pat Toomey, of Pennsylvania, are facing Democratic challengers in races that are too close to call, while Ohio Sen. Rob Portman is ahead in his race by 9 percent, a new Quinnipiac University Swing State poll released Thursday shows. Florida: Rubio, 48 percent; challenger Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy, 45 percent.
In 1980, Democratic pollster Peter Hart warned Gaylord Nelson, Wisconsin's champion vote-getter as governor and senator, that he was going to lose. Hart saw a Republican wave coming.
Endangered Sen. Pat Toomey is banking on Pennsylvania voters backing him in November even if they oppose fellow Republican Donald Trump, a ticket-splitting strategy that may help determine whether the GOP can hang on to its Senate majority this election year. "Pennsylvania voters are really quite sophisticated and they know for sure that Donald Trump is in a category unto himself," Toomey told reporters on a conference call Friday.
Campaign 2016: Toomey banking on split-ticket voting The Pennsylvania Republican hopes voters turned off by Donald Trump will still support his Senate reelection bid. Check out this story on publicopiniononline.com: http://on-ydr.co/2aMxkW3 In this May 9, 2016, file photo, Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa.
Ohio GOP Sen. Rob Portman is rolling out another endorsement from a labor union that had previously endorsed his Democratic opponent, former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland . It's the latest in a string of developments that has Republicans increasingly optimistic about keeping the crucial swing state in their column in November as they battle to retain Senate control.
The Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Monday asked Jeff Mixon , who has a group called Black Lives Matter in Cuyahoga County, to resign from the party's executive committee in light of an endorsement by Mixon's group of a Republican U.S. senator's reelection. By endorsing Sen. Rob Portman when the party has endorsed Portman's Democratic challenger, former Ohio Gov. Rob Portman, Mixon violated the local party's unity rule, said party chairman Stuart Garson.