On Tuesday, J.D. Vance won the Ohio Senate Republican primary with 31.3 percent of the vote in a crowded primary, which certainly appears to be due in part to former President Donald Trump, who endorsed Vance a few weeks earlier. Now that he’s the official GOP nominee who will go head-to-head with Republican Tim Ryan in November to replace retiring Republican Sen. Rob Portman, it appears Vance is also getting assist from another, less likely source: the Lincoln Project.
.@ProjektLincoln called Ohio’s U.S. Senate race one of the “most important races critical to the survival of American democracy.” @SpectrumNews1OH pic.twitter.com/M9QG2u9HaX
— Josh Rultenberg (@JoshRultNews) May 5, 2022
To be clear, the Lincoln Project does not endorse Vance; they have destroyed AND he laughed at him. But given their track record and how their participation in races has actually helped the candidates they oppose, people feel it’s pretty sheltered to point out that they are actually helping Vance.
Oooohhhh. Sca-weeee. . . I currently estimate that JD’s chances of winning are approximately 99.993%. I want to leave some wiggle room there and calculate that there is a 0.007% chance that a weasel like Tim Ryan could win in a year like 2022 in a state where Trump won by 8 points. . . https://t.co/WDSQL94LOy
— Ned Ryun (@nedryun) May 5, 2022
Almost guarantees a JD Vance landslide. https://t.co/JNmX4MMWk0
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 5, 2022
They lost every race they were in (Collins, Sullivan, Youngkin, etc.), so I guess congratulations to Senator Vance?
— John Money (real name on ID) (@DrJMoneyPHD) May 5, 2022
So Ryan definitely loses, lol.
— Lisa (@LisaTurnage12) May 5, 2022
Fantastic news. I look forward to seeing them successfully defend their perfect record in Senate races: 0-7In #OHS https://t.co/RGakWjqyIa
— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) May 5, 2022
All right, @JDVance1 he should be thrilled with this considering their album sucks.
LP enlisted its donors to fund ads “denying” Donald Trump in Florida.
He won it easily.
They declared war @GlennYoungkin on behalf @TerryMcAuliffe in Virginia.
He won and is very popular. https://t.co/ehgcHcM5cL
— Rich Baris “The People’s Pundit” (@Peoples_Pundit) May 5, 2022
Our friends from Twitchy also revealed on Thursday, a startling discovery was made about who was opposed to the Lincoln Project getting involved in the race: Ryan’s communications director, Isabella Levy.
please don’t https://t.co/JNDqLzFOhH
— Izzi Levy (@chevytothe_levy) May 5, 2022
The Lincoln Project announces it will enter the Ohio Senate race, saying it is one of the “most important races crucial to the survival of American democracy.”
Tim Ryan spokesman: ‘please don’t’
That’s a pretty good window into how many Democrats see the work of the Lincoln Project. https://t.co/KqIFloyfWd
— Dan Merica (@merica) May 5, 2022
Last October in Virginia, shortly before Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, the Lincoln Project engaged in a bizarre publicity stunt in which Democratic activists, including a woman and a black man, dressed in white shirts and khaki pants and carried tiki torches, reminiscent of the white supremacist demonstration in Charlottesville in August 2017. Activists claimed that “everyone is for Glenn.” Later that evening, the Lincoln Project owned up to the move.
They need to stop “helping” us.
– Helena resists???? ??RBG?? (@HelenResists) May 5, 2022
Even Steve Schmidt, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, criticized his former group for this move. He resigned last February as a scandal came to delicate involving the sexual harassment of co-founder John Weaver and youthful men, some of them minors.
“I thought this action was recklessly stupid. She was dishonest and budget-friendly. This is exactly the wrong way to approach the fight against a real fascist movement with extremist elements. “It showed a terrifying assessment of the day-to-day management and leadership of the Lincoln Project,” Schmidt said after Youngkin had already been elected the week before.
The Lincoln Project also campaigned against Youngkin with ads shared on social media that his opposition to Critical Race Theory (CRT), which he made a central theme during his campaign and now during his administration, stemmed from his desire to spread references to Black people using racial slurs.
Race for Ohio Senate seat is taken into account favor Republicans. The Cook Political Report indicates that he is a “lean Republican”, while Sabato’s Crystal Ball says “probably Republican” and Inside Elections states that he is a “solid Republican”.
