Like Florida, Ohio, once a purple state, is becoming increasingly Republican. Governor Mike DeWine was just re-elected by 25 pointsand Senator-elect J.D. Vance defeated Representative Tim Ryan to replace retiring Senator Rob Portman by 6 points. As on “NBC News”Meet the press“host Chuck Todd reminded viewers during last Sunday’s edition that his guest, Sen. Sherrod Brown, “is the only Democrat to win statewide in Ohio in the last decade.” There was an extensive discussion about Title 42 in this segment, which the judge said he ordered to end later this week.
The senator seemed largely dismissive, even tone-deaf, when discussing the issue. Todd was equally delusional when he laid out the Sens. immigration plan. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) as what “seemed like the perfect compromise.”
Townhall, including columnist Kurt Schlichter, discussed the plan in detail, especially its tantamount to amnesty and a gift to Democrats. As Spencer reported last Thursday evening, the plan was abandoned. Todd asked Brown why he thought that.
While Brown claimed he couldn’t speak for Tillis or Sinema, he suggested it had something to do with “probably looking at the Capitol and seeing chaos in the House even if we were able to do something in the Senate.” ” He also prioritized the focus on DACA, emphasizing that “we’re focused on what’s really vital [Dreamers] first” and the concept of national security should rather remain aside.
As Matt pointed out, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) did not allow the bill to be added to the omnibus bill, which killed it.
Todd took the amnesty plan even further, asking what Brown could do while running for re-election to get more Ohio voters on board, which Brown stated in his response “are reasonable,” casually mentioning that “we’re a bit of a lean state republican “Now.”
Quite likely Brown wishes that’s how it was. Although, as Todd himself noted, he has been re-elected multiple times, Brown is the only statewide Democrat to have won in the last few years.
But what was even more surprising was that the senator dismissed the issue. “I don’t hear much about immigration from voters, except from people on the far right who always want to gain a political advantage by talking about it,” he said. Rather, it is “serious-minded people”, like Tillis and Sinema, who are in favor of amnesty, he said, once again emphasizing the importance of DACA.
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While Ohio may not be as directly affected by immigration as border states like Texas, that doesn’t mean voters don’t care. While attending a September event for Vance’s campaign, Townhall spoke with the event’s organizer, Tomie Patton, who is president of the Avon Lake Republicans. While she admitted that “we don’t really see it” from where she spoke in northern Ohio, border concerns are still a “big issue” for Ohio voters because “people are outraged by it.”
Ohio was also hit by a crime allegedly committed over the summer by an illegal immigrant, in which Gerson Fuentes was accused of raping a 10-year-old girl who became pregnant and had an abortion in neighboring Indiana. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed that Fuentes entered the country illegally from Guatemala.
