Ohio will be one of the most vital Senate races to watch in 2024, but Chairman Steve Daines (R-MT)The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) is not getting involved, at least not yet. Daines clarified in an interview with CBS News’ Major Garrett that he is not involved in the primary election in which Sherrod Brown, the vulnerable Democratic candidate for office, will run for re-election. State Sen. Matt Dolan and businessman Bernie Moreno have already declared, and Secretary of State Frank LaRose is expected to announce soon that anyone Daines believes can flip the seat.
Daines cited Ohio as an example of states where it doesn’t seem necessary to get involved in candidate selection.
The chairman assured Garrett that voters would “always in the end… decide” which candidate would win. He then cited Ohio as an example, where “when you have three candidates who can each win the general election, um, we don’t stay up late worrying about that, but if we have a situation where a candidate may not be able to attract the attention of the broader spectrum, in this case we will be more conscious, trying to attract candidates who can do this.”
Daines listed LaRose as one of three candidates, saying, “We assume LaRose will probably be in this race.” Garrett called LaRose’s candidacy a “safe and sound bet.”
Daines then confirmed to Garrett that “yes we are” when asked “so you’re going to stay out of Ohio?”
Daines discussed his role as NRSC chairman with the races he plans to enter and not enter, and how he approaches making the Republican Party as successful as possible. Republicans were disappointed in last year’s Senate races because Democrats actually won the seat when Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) replaced retiring Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA).
While 2024 looks like a better year for Republicans this time around, the party can’t afford to take anything for granted. Daines spoke with Townhall last November, shortly after he was elected to the position, during which he acknowledged that Independents had not broken with Republicans in the 2022 cycle. “We need to understand why that happened,” Daines told Townhall. The president also mentioned that he was looking forward to “looking at what happened in great detail and really developing a plan, which I call ‘lessons learned’.”
Daines also spoke in an interview with CBS News about “look what certainly happened in 2022,” discussing how “I discovered that Republicans across the country, including myself, are fed up with losing.” His approach according to POLITICOinvolves using candidates who can win both the primary and general elections.
The president addressed the idea of also reaching out to independents, stating that “ultimately, elections and politics are about addition, not subtraction and division, and finding candidates who can appeal to a broader spectrum of Republican voters as well as appeal to independents voters”, which in his opinion “will be the key to success in 2024”, which is why “they are much more thoughtful and deliberate in looking for candidates who can gain wider attractiveness.”
Interview with Steve Daines: 1- clears the Montana field for Tim Sheehy 2. West Virginia Appears Unchanged and Expects Jim Justice to Win Primary and General 3- won’t intervene in Ohio and probably AZ 4- Supports 45 5- stay updated in MI, WIhttps://t.co/YwdjrKhcqk
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