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Ahead of campaigning in Ohio on Saturday, President Donald Trump unleashed a withering attack on the state's son, savaging LeBron James in a late-night tweet that derided the intelligence of one of the nation's most prominent African-American men. Trump blasted James after seemingly watching an interview the former Cleveland Cavaliers star did earlier in the week with CNN anchor Don Lemon in which he deemed Trump divisive.
President Donald Trump's strategy of becoming aggressively involved in the midterm elections is prompting concern among some Republicans who worry he's complicating the political calculus for GOP candidates trying to outrun his popularity. Those Republicans worry their statewide candidates may rise or fall based on Trump's standing, muddling their path to maintain control of Congress.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today released the following statement regarding Senate Bill 220, the Data Protection Act sponsored by State Senators Bob Hackett and Kevin Bacon , being signed into law: "I congratulate Senator Hackett and Senator Bacon for working with their Senate and House colleagues to pass this important bill and send it to the governor's desk and commend the governor for signing it into law," said Attorney General DeWine. "By encouraging Ohio business owners to take appropriate and proven steps to enhance their cybersecurity, Ohioans can be confident that their personal information will be better protected.
Senator Rob Portman has introduced a new bill in the Senate that would give the Internal Revenue Service the authority to regulate income tax return preparers. The bill is cosponsored by Senator Ben Cardin .
Vice President Mike Pence came to Newark today to tout GOP congressional candidate Troy Balderson in next week's special election, but the focus of much of his message was on President Donald Trump. "In the 12th district, history will record that the red wave started here," Pence said to a large ovation from the capacity crowd.
A ceremony honoring 70 sailors lost aboard the submarine USS Grunion during World War II will be held Monday, the 76th anniversary of its sinking, at the USS Cod Submarine Memorial. The public has been invited to participate in the 2 p.m. event that will salute each crewman, including seven Ohioans, three from Northeast Ohio.
Shortly before the 2016 New Hampshire primary, a group backing John Kasich for president mailed controversial campaign fliers to Granite State voters bearing the ominous message "What if your friends, your neighbors, and your community knew whether you voted?" While the Kasich team's role in the "voter shaming" effort was not revealed until well after the primary, the mailers caused an immediate stir in New Hampshire and raised claims of voter intimidation and privacy violations. Last week, many voters in Ohio's 12th Congressional District received similar mailers from the Republican National Committee on behalf of state Sen. Troy Balderson, R-Zanesville, ahead of next week's special election.
Ohio's Republican heavy-hitters showed up in full force Saturday to kick off a team of canvassers in support of Troy Balderson's bid to represent the 12th district in Congress. With the Aug. 7 special election just 10 days away, state Sen. Balderson, R-Zanesville, is using the home stretch to galvanize the historically Republican district to turn out and vote.
It is an assumption about the nature of political parties that they must have a direction, and that direction must speak for most candidates and politicians within the party family. But why? Why can't there be factions, as there most assuredly are in the Democratic Party ? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is going to run in November as a Democratic Socialist regardless of what direction, if any, the Democratic Party takes in the months ahead.
A handful of conservative members of Congress officially introduced articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Wednesday in a move that had been threatened for weeks. The articles were introduced by Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina, chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, and Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, along with 9 cosponsors.
Key General Assembly Republicans are unhappy with their fellow Republican, Gov. John Kasich, for what his own press release termed "aggressive new action" to protect Lake Erie from agricultural runoff in western Ohio's Maumee River basin. On Wednesday, responding to Kasich's July 11 executive order, House Speaker Ryan Smith, a Republican from Gallia County's Bidwell, and other top Republican lawmakers asked Kasich to rescind it .
Forget the Democratic Socialist in New York. If Democrats retake the House of Representatives on Election Day, it will be because of people like Democratic Rep. Conor Lamb.
Some of the nation's best-known governors - California's Jerry Brown, New York's Andrew Cuomo and John Kasich of Ohio, to name three - won't be in Santa Fe for the National Governors Association meeting, which opens Thursday. But 21 governors have confirmed they'll be here.
Four secretive political groups raised more than $2.6 million for ads targeting Republican primaries for Ohio House of Representative seats in the lead up to last May's election, new campaign finance filings show. The money was spent in roughly a dozen state legislative races that were a proxy fight to be Ohio's next House speaker.
This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows death row inmate Robert Van Hook, convicted of fatally strangling and stabbing David Self in 1985 after meeting him in a Cincinnati bar.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich hoped he he was wrong - that President Donald Trump would emerge from his private meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin having achieved something “significant.” But the Republican who aspires to run again for president in 2020 - after failing to take down Trump for the GOP nomination in 2016 - did not have high hopes for the Helsinki meeting. “It's very concerning … I just view this with great trepidation,” Kasich told CNN's Anderson Cooper during a TV appearance on the cable network on Monday morning.