Midwest
After nearly trading blows in their first debate, Ohio GOP Senate candidates face off in round two
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The highest 5 Republican candidates operating for Senate in Ohio face off Monday night for his or her second debate within the race to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Rob Portman.
And the showdown in a Fox 8 Information in Cleveland debate comes simply three days after two of the main contenders virtually got here to blows throughout a heated face-to-face encounter within the first debate between the Republican candidates.
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Video of practically bodily confrontation on Friday evening at a debate exterior of Columbus between 2018 Ohio GOP Senate candidate Mike Gibbons, a Cleveland entrepreneur, actual property developer and funding banker, and former Ohio treasurer and former two-time Senate candidate Josh Mandel, shortly went viral.
The verbal fireworks ignited after Mandel accused Gibbons of “making tens of millions” off inventory in a Chinese language firm. Responding, Gibbons dismissively accused Mandel of not understanding how investments work.
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“You’ve by no means been within the non-public sector in your total life. You don’t know squat,” Gibbons charged.
“Two excursions in Iraq,” Mandel shouted after rising from his seat and shifting in direction of Gibbons. “Don’t inform me I haven’t labored!”
“Again off, buddy, otherwise you’re going to finish up — ,” Gibbons responded. “You’re coping with the unsuitable dude.”
“No, you’re coping with the unsuitable man,” Mandel countered. “You watch what occurs.”
The 2 candidates have been bodily separated by debate moderators, however not earlier than an expletive was uttered by one of many candidates, though it’s not clear who mentioned it. After the talk neither candidate would admit to utilizing the inappropriate and offensive language.
The three different candidates on the stage at Friday evening’s debate who will even be collaborating in Monday evening’s showdown are enterprise capitalist and best-selling creator J.D. Vance; former Ohio GOP chair Jane Timken, whose husband is the previous chairman, CEO and president of his household’s metal manufacturing company, and state Sen. Matt Dolan, a former county and state prosecutor whose household owns Main League Baseball’s Cleveland Guardians.
“Sit down. Come on,” Vance mentioned throughout the Gibbons-Mandel face-off. “That is ridiculous.”
And Vance, who’s additionally a navy veteran, later accused Mandel of being “disgraceful” for what he charged was utilizing the Marine Corps as a “political soccer.”
“What a joke,” he argued.
However Mandel instructed the Cincinnati Enquirer on Saturday morning “I’m a Marine, and I’m a fighter, and I’ll by no means again down from a combat.”
Requested if he would do it over again, Mandel instructed the newspaper “after all.”
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Mandel spoke after he and Gibbons, Vance, Timken, and Dolan appeared at a pancake breakfast hosted by the Northeast Hamilton County Republican Membership.
Gibbons joked on the occasion that “I introduced in my previous boxing coach and we went in a couple of rounds this morning.” Neither candidate apologized for the talk confrontation.
In an announcement after the talk, Gibbons charged that “Mandel is unhinged, unfit, and flailing – as a result of he’s dropping.”
A Fox Information ballot carried out March 2-6 indicated Gibbons at 22% amongst like Republican main voters, with Mandel at 20%, Vance at 11%, Timken at 9%, Dolan at 7%, and practically 1 / 4 of these surveyed undecided.
On Monday, hours earlier than the second debate, 15 veterans backing Mandel wrote an open letter saying they have been “disgusted past perception” with Gibbons feedback.
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“Gibbons owes Josh and all veterans and people at the moment within the service an apology” the wrote. And so they charged that Gibbons was “implying that ‘WE’ who served our nation honorably and faithfully, by no means earned our approach working within the non-public sector. All of us volunteered to serve our nation away from our households, placing our lives in peril, so individuals like Mike Gibbons might make tens of millions.”
Gibbons on Monday issued a separate assertion lamenting the demise of 4 American service members in a aircraft crash in Norway over the weekend. Amongst these killed was Gunnery Sgt. James W. Speedy, of Cambridge, Ohio.
“This loss hits near dwelling for me and lots of Ohioans, and reminds us all simply how valued and courageous every member of our armed forces is,” Gibbons wrote.
The GOP main has turn into a race to showcase help for former President Donald Trump who stays the most well-liked and influential politician within the GOP as he performs a kingmaker’s position within the celebration’s 2022 primaries and repeatedly teases one other White Home run in 2024. All the foremost contenders, aside from Dolan, have touted their Trump credentials in hopes of touchdown the supporter of the previous president, who has but to endorse within the race.
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Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee’s mayor is making sure Wisconsin voters know how much their vote counts: ‘The swingiest of states’ – Washington Examiner
Cavalier Johnson, the mayor of Milwaukee, is gearing up for another high-stakes election in which his state could be the deciding factor.
Milwaukee is the largest city in Wisconsin and Milwaukee County is one of the Democratic strongholds in the state. Wisconsin is a key swing state this election cycle and proves to be a state that could be a tipping point for a victory for Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump.
“That is rising in the consciousness here, that there’s only a handful of states that will decide the presidency, and chief among them is the state of Wisconsin. We’re the swingiest of swing states,” Johnson, a Democrat, told the Washington Examiner.
Wisconsin currently has a near-even split between voters registered as Democrats and Republicans. In 2020, President Joe Biden flipped the state blue by only 20,000 votes. In 2016, Trump flipped Wisconsin red for the first time since 1984 by a little more than 27,000 votes.
“Whether it’s Democrats or Republicans, Wisconsin, typically, is on the winning side of that equation, and whoever wins the state is, I believe, very likely to win the White House,” Johnson said.
Election integrity in Milwaukee County
In 2020, absentee ballots were a hot button issue in Milwaukee County and in other blue cities in swing states.
“The unfortunate thing from 2020 is that there was a false narrative that things were happening here that just were not,” Johnson said. “Unfortunately, what you had was a candidate who lost an election fair and square, and ultimately did not accept the results of those elections.”
The state of Wisconsin requires absentee ballots to be counted on election night and Democrats by and large utilized absentee ballots more than their Republican counterparts at the time due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Social media buzzed with conspiracy theories of large numbers of ballots being dumped in Milwaukee County, claiming voter fraud because so many ballots were counted in favor of Democrats that night. In reality, the sudden increase in ballots cast for Democrats were because the state requires all ballots to be counted on election night. In 2020, Milwaukee County reported 170,000 absentee ballots, most of which went to Biden.
Johnson was looking at a 2023 state bill, Assembly Bill 567, which would have allowed local municipalities to begin counting mail-in and early voting ballots before election day, in order to streamline the process and prevent these types of false claims.
Johnson said the bill had the support of Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, a Republican. Gov. Tony Evers (D-WI) was prepared to sign such legislation.
“Gov. Evers for years has proposed allowing county and municipal clerks to begin canvassing absentee ballots the day before an election and is glad to see this effort finally has bipartisan support,” a spokeswoman for the governor told WisPolitics. “If AB567 passes in its current form as amended by the committee and without any poison-pill additions, the governor will sign it.”
Despite bipartisan support in the Assembly, the bill failed in the state Senate, but Johnson said “if it had [passed], then there wouldn’t be a situation here where we would have to provide those numbers later in the evening on Election Day.”
“I don’t want to see that. There are a number of reasonable Republicans who also don’t want to see that. But unfortunately, there just were not the votes in the state senate to combat that,” Johnson added
Still, Johnson is confident in the county’s and city’s election integrity.
“However, given that our processes in Milwaukee are always free, they’re always fair, they’re always transparent, and they will remain to be so in this election as well,” Johnson said.
Mobilizing voters in Milwaukee
After Biden exited the race, Harris’s first campaign stop was in Wisconsin, in West Allis a suburb of Milwaukee. Harris’s campaign kickoff further highlighted the importance of the Badger State ahead of November.
“It was electric. Incredibly exciting for the people here in Milwaukee, meeting thousands of people, jam packed to see the Vice President as she officially kicked off her presidential campaign here in Wisconsin,” Johnson said.
“When you look in that gymnasium where her campaign rally was held. I mean, you saw a cross section of America … folks on the ground here are really, really excited to see her and to support her,” Johnson said, adding “folks were saying that they haven’t seen this sort of energy on the Democratic side since Barack Obama launched his initial campaign back in 2008.”
Johnson was born and raised in Milwaukee and went to college at the state’s flagship university, UW-Madison. He became acting mayor after Tom Barrett, Milwaukee’s longtime mayor for nearly two decades, was appointed to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg.
In 2022, Johnson made history in a special election, becoming the first elected black mayor of the city. Now, he’s making sure fellow Milwaukee residents understand the importance of their vote.
“As I go out across the city, whether I’m going to festivals in Milwaukee or I go to a farmers market on Sunday, which I’ve been doing the past number of weeks, routinely, I run into somebody who is registering people to vote here in the city,” Johnson said.
“I’ve encouraged people to make sure that they interact with the people in their lives, who can vote, who should vote, but don’t vote in order to make sure that they know of the importance of the upcoming election,” Johnson continued.
He said Milwaukee residents are increasingly becoming more aware of their electoral standing compared to other parts of the country. During the 2000 presidential election, there were around 14 swing states. In 2024, there are only about seven swing states, heightening the stakes of a campaign losing even one state.
“Folks are starting to understand that their votes really, really count to determine who’s going to sit in the Oval Office,” Johnson said. “Milwaukeans are starting to understand that their participation in the electoral process determines who the President of the United States is going to be — the most powerful person, not just in our country, but on planet Earth.
Hosting the RNC
Following the Republican National Convention, which took place in Milwaukee last month, Johnson was thrown into the national political spotlight as the convention descended upon his city. Johnson was one of the leading voices originally pushing for the convention to be held there during the city selection process.
“Whether they were delegates or members of the media, everybody had a positive impression of Milwaukee and and therefore of Wisconsin, because for many of the people who came here, it was their first time ever in this state,” Johnson said.
Milwaukee doesn’t typically get the opportunity to host events that pique national interest like the Super Bowl or NCAA championships. In 2020, the Democratic National Convention was supposed to be held in Milwaukee, but was moved to a virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Johnson saw the RNC as a way to put Milwaukee on the map of cities capable of hosting large events.
“I think it’s a wonderful thing for Milwaukee and a wonderful thing for the state of Wisconsin,” Johnson said. “The RNC is not the end — it’s the beginning. It’s the beginning for us to host large scale events, whether be they political, business, sports, entertainment, trade shows, and the like to come to Milwaukee.”
The day the Washington Examiner spoke with Johnson, he was with one-time Midwest mayor Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, formerly known as Mayor Pete. The pair were highlighting rail expansion in the state on Amtrak’s Borealis line.
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Johnson, like Buttigieg, seemingly has further ambitions in politics, but plans to stay in his home for now.
“I really value the opportunity to serve my community here in Milwaukee as mayor,” Johnson said. “When there’s an opportunity, when the time is right to run for governor, I certainly will take a look at that.”
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Indianapolis, IN
Colts QB Anthony Richardson reacts to being featured on the JW Marriott Indianapolis
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — JW Marriott Indianapolis is known for making sports “larger than life.”
For instance, the hotel has featured a large March Madness bracket on its windows in the past. Most recently, it featured an image of Fever rookie guard Caitlin Clark in a Gatorade ad.
This past week, the hotel put a new image on the east windows of its building. The image features three members of the Indianapolis Colts, quarterback Anthony Richardson, running back Jonathan Taylor and wide receiver Michael Pittman Jr.
News 8 Sports’ Andrew Chernoff asked Richardson about the image on Friday after the team’s training camp practice in Westfield, Ind.
“That’s definitely cool,” Richardson said. “I appreciate the city embracing me. It means a lot to me and lets me know I’m doing something right. I got a lot of support behind me. So, I’m thankful for it.”
The north window features the phrase “For The Shoe,” the official hashtag of the Colts on X, formally known as Twitter.
Richardson is gearing up for his second season as the Colts starting quarterback. Last year, his rookie season was cut short after he suffered a season-ending shoulder injury in October.
He’s back healthy and ready to play a full 2024 season.
“It’s definitely easier to manage our offense now,” Richardson said. “I’m a lot more comfortable, a lot more comfortable with the calls when Shane (Steichen) is calling them. Then just looking at a defense, I’m able to scan the defense a lot longer and just check out what I’m going to have on a certain play. So I’m definitely a lot more comfortable in the offense, and I want to plan on continuing to get more comfortable in it.”
The Colts continue training camp on Monday when they practice from 2 p.m. EDT to 3:30 p.m. EDT at Grand Park.
The team’s first preseason game is just one week away when it hosts the Denver Broncos on Sunday, Aug. 11 at 1 p.m. EDT inside Lucas Oil Stadium.
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