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Is Ohio's Senate seat within the reach of Democrats? Tim Ryan would like you to think so, but he's complained that the party's leaders have written off his campaign, while Republicans are pouring money into the coffers of his Republican opponent JD Vance.
NBC News reports that Ryan is bleeding cash while Vance is flush, leading the Democratic congressman to wonder if the national party hasn't given up on him too soon. We're in Ohio and we got a candidate running around with a tinfoil hat on. We're out here fighting on our own. I mean, it's David against Goliath," Ryan said in an interview.
After losing two presidential campaigns and a race for governor in the state since 2016, national Democrats are wary about spending in Ohio, once a quintessential battleground. Republicans are treating it as a state they can't afford to lose.
Trump's super PAC was the latest group to jump into the race, reserving more than $1 million in ads last week. The barrage includes a spot attacking Ryan, who has portrayed himself as a moderate, as a party-line voter beholden to Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer. But even the Schumer-aligned Senate Majority PAC, a major presence in other states key to determining partisan control of the chamber, has been largely absent from Ohio.
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