“I think this is a candidacy that looks really good to the Twitter crowd, and that looks good to folks who aren’t in Ohio and are thinking about the glide path that J.D. Vance has been on.”
LONDON, OHIO—Patrick Closser takes the political temperature most days from his drive-thru window here. The ring-ding sound of another car approaching the little hut at Casey’s Carry Out & Drive Thru for beer, cigarettes, soda or candy is to Closser also a sign of an approaching constituent. Closser owns the place, but he also pulls double duty as the mayor of this town of just over 10,000 residents about 30 minutes outside of Columbus.
The Senate candidates best-known in the area are the frontrunners from past campaigns: Josh Mandel, who is running for Senate for the third time, and Mike Gibbons, whose regular appearances at local events won him the county in the Republican primary in 2018, after Mandel dropped out of the race.Closser has even seen some news online about the lower-profile Jane Timken, the former state GOP chair who announced a bid earlier this year.
“I think this is a candidacy that looks really good to the Twitter crowd, and that looks good to folks who aren’t in Ohio and are thinking about the glide path that J.D. Vance has been on,” said David Niven, a political science professor at the University of Cincinnati and former speechwriter for Democratic governor Ted Strickland. “But I don’t know that rank-and-file Ohio Republicans have given him a moment’s thought.
“We don’t really know anything about J.D.,” said Doug, as he sat waiting for Vance’s speech to start. “But we like what we’ve heard from him through his book and through his movie, and that’s why we’re giving him a chance. We’ve been disappointed with Portman. More than disappointed.” At the speech’s end, as the loading dock at the tube works grew hot and the crowd of a few hundred fanned themselves with freshly printed “conservative outsider” signs, Vance invoked John Brown, the radical abolitionist raised in Ohio’s Western Reserve. In Vance’s telling, Brown looked out at the rolling mountains of Appalachia as he went to the gallows, and declared the country beautiful. “Thisa beautiful country,” said Vance. “Never let them take it away from us. Never stop fighting for it.
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