What Went Down During Ohio’s And Indiana’s Primary Elections
Hello from ABC News’s political unit! Jacob, to build upon your point about Gov. DeWine and a possible lack of enthusiasm toward him, it seems like the state Democratic party is trying to capitalize on those potential pitfalls.
Ohio’s state Democratic and Republican parties have predictably opposite reactions on Twitter to DeWine’s win in the Republican gubernatorial primary. The GOP celebrated his win. But I noticed in particular that Ohio Dems tweeted that “Republicans and Democrats agree on one thing: @MikeDeWine is the wrong choice for Ohio.”
Ohio hasn’t had a Democratic governor since 2006, but it remains to be seen if the Democratic party and Whaley can indeed capitalize in November on the discontent they claim that Republicans have toward DeWine.
Of note as well, given yesterday’s seismic report on the Supreme Court’s draft opinion on abortion rights, is whether projected Democratic primary winner Nan Whaley can gain more steam now as a self-identified “genuinely pro-choice candidate.”
Yeah, what I wonder about, Monica, is whether this could shake up races in purple states. Because we’re not talking about a 15-week abortion ban, which I think would be easier for people to shrug off. Moreover, anti-abortion legislators are not including the exemptions that used to be standard in abortion bans — for rape, incest, life of the mother. That could make a difference for voters who maybe haven’t been as concerned about abortion rights previously.
The results aren’t final yet, obviously, but it’s worth noting that the late polls got quite close to the actual results in the GOP primary for Ohio Senate. In the last two polls of the race, from Trafalgar and Emerson College, Vance averaged 25 percent, Mandel averaged 21.5 percent, Dolan averaged 20 percent, Gibbons averaged 13.5 percent and Timken averaged 6.5 percent. The results right now are Vance 31 percent, Mandel 25 percent, Dolan 22 percent, Gibbons 12 percent and Timken 7 percent. Not bad for a race where the early polls were mostly spammy internals!