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Each morning in the Ohio Capital Journal’s free newsletter, The Eye-Opener, we round up the news and commentary from across Ohio, the country and the world that catches our attention. We call this feature Catching Our Eye and have published it here.
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Catching our eyes
- House in Ohio. Andrew Tobias of Signal Ohio reports: “The sudden withdrawal of Cincinnati-area Republicans from the Ohio House race is causing confusion among the GOP.”
Hamilton County Republicans are scrambling to find a replacement candidate in one of Ohio’s more competitive legislative districts after the party’s candidate in the November election abruptly resigned this week.
Elizabeth Maier surprised Republicans and Democrats alike on Wednesday by announcing on her campaign website that she was ending her campaign for Ohio’s 27th House District.
- Americans left and right see the game rigged. CNN’s Aaron Blake writes: “According to polls, Americans – including many Republicans – are losing faith in capitalism”
President Donald Trump has indicated that his main strategy for the 2026 midterm elections is to call Democrats “socialists” and even “communists” at every turn. There is evidence that democratic socialism is gaining slightly more support in recent Democratic primaries.
However, the more critical event in American politics today may not be the rise of socialism but the decline of faith in capitalism and economic justice.
New polls confirm that even the right is increasingly disillusioned.
- Cruelty for cruelty’s sake. Bob Ballard of TiffinOhio.net writes: “Trump’s cruel deportation campaign will devastate Springfield, Ohio, and threaten its Haitian neighbors”
Cruelty is the cheapest thing a government can produce. It doesn’t need a budget, no legislation, no argument that can survive ten seconds of exposure to evidence. I need a date on the calendar and other people’s neighbors.
The date in Springfield (was) on Friday.
That’s when Temporary Protected Status expires and between 12,000 and 15,000 people in the Clark County city of less than 60,000 people cease to be legally present and become a burden.
